Canon to build new image sensor factory
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Blog: Camera maker will spend $450 million to build a new manufacturing site that will build 3 million CMOS sensors a year.
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The company releases new applications aimed at amateur photographers and video shooters.
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Canon will invest about 80 billion yen ($709 million) to build a factory in northern Japan to make ink cartridges for printers and photocopiers. Canon, which is based in Tokyo, said construction of the factory in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, will start in November and production will begin in August next year.
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ROCHESTER, NYâEastman Kodak will acquire the imaging business of National Semiconductor Corp., which develops and manufactures metal oxide semiconductor image sensor devices.
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Camera maker will support Media Transfer Protocol in future products.
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ROCHESTER, NYâEastman Kodak Co. and International Business Machines Corp. said yesterday they have agreed to develop and make image sensors for digital still cameras and camera phones.
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Canon's EOS-1D Mark III offers 10.1 megapixels, boosts sensor's light sensitivity, adds new image processor and gets live image preview.
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(InfoWorld) - If you can't beat them, join them. That's the motto of two of the world's most renowned makers of analog cameras, Germany's Leica Camera AG and Denmark's Hasselblad A/S, which have used the Photokina imaging show in Cologne, Germany, to launch several high-end digital cameras in an attempt to counter the market dominance of Asian manufacturers. "Last year, we had serious economic problems to contend with," said Josef Spichtig, Leica's chairman of the management board at a news conference. "The key question was whether the company would be able to carry the values and quality characteristics it had developed in the analog world into the digital world. The answer is yes as our new products show." Spichtig's colleague, Ralph Nebe, director of marketing and sales, said that the six new digital cameras launched at Photokina show the company is pursuing "a course of its own in the changed camera market." At the top of the range is the Leica M8 digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR) with the Leica viewfinder system. A low-noise CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor ensures a resolution of 10.3 megapixels. Leica has developed two new lenses for the camera, which can also be used with virtually all lenses in the company's M range produced since 1954. The M8 will start shipping at the end of November. No pricing information was available. Among Leica's other new digital cameras is the V-Lux 1, an SLR model featuring a swivelling 2 inch TFT (thin-film transistor) display, and the 10 megapixel compact D-Lux . Both cameras will start shipping next month. In a move to carve out its niche in the new world of digital photography, Hasselblad launched what the company claims to be the world's first 48 millimeter full-frame DSLR camera. The H3D is available in two models, the H3D-22, which offers a resolution of 22 megapixels, or the H3D-39, offering 39 megapixels on "the largest image sensor currently available in digital photography" -- more than twice the size of a high-end 35 mm camera sensor, the company said. The camera is built around a new digital camera engine. Information about lens and exact capture conditions are fed into the engine for ultra fine tuning of the auto-focus mechanism, taking into account the design of the lens and optical specification of the sensor. Another feature is Digital APO Correction (DAC). Pricing and availability information was not immediately available.
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Blog: Canon is planning to add a new file format to its digital cameras, according to a photographer who toured the company's headquarters.
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Company unveils prototype of top-end camera that features an unusually large sensor--the size of a full frame of 35mm film.
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Taking a look at improved features of midrange single-lens reflex cameras.
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Panasonic plans to spend $860 million to expand a Japanese site for manufacturing image sensors, with a new facility opening in 2009.
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Device can improve the image quality of standard and high-definition images.
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Micron Technology, trying to take on widely used CCD image sensors, pushes its CMOS technology to 8 megapixels.
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Eastman Kodak Company and IBM have banded together to sharpen the vision of image sensors designed for use in digital still cameras and camera phones. The collaboration marries Sony's complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing with Kodak's existing image sensor technologies in an attempt to sow a new breed of CMOS image sensor (CIS) devices that are capable of matching the image quality of charge-coupled devices (CCDs). Kodak and IBM will work together to develop as well as manufacture the sensors.
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&quot;The EOS-1Ds Mark II digital SLR camera establishes a new benchmark of innovation and excellence not only for Canon but for our industry as a whole and particularly for the community of professional photographers who are our most demanding and discerning
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Blog: Canon is planning on adding a new file format to its digital cameras, according to a photographer who toured the company's headquarters.