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Sony Blurs the Line Between Video and Stills Friday, September 07, 2007 - Guy Molho Home >> News >> General Technology   
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Sony has developed a prototype of a new image sensor, CMOS (or complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) sensor, which should provide continuous imaging from all pixels at the high frame rate of 60 frames per second. The new high-speed CMOS sensor is designed for digital cameras and promises an exceptional imaging quality and speed.
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Sony's idea is that the CMOS sensor will express the motion and beauty of a single moment. Allowing photographers to capture a quick series of still images in high resolution at 60 frames per second during video recording will dramatically increase the flexibility of future cameras and photographers. The greatest strength of CMOS sensors is that by including both digital and analog circuits on the same chip, their readout speed can be made dramatically faster than that of CCDs. Sony is now working to create high-speed CMOS sensors that can easily capture events that exceed the capabilities of the human eye, literally giving the effect of freezing a moment in time. |
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I always had the impression the problem was how to store or encode the data fast enough. Hollywood already uses hires digital cameras, and as I understand, in many cases with framerates faster then 60Hz. And there are those sensors working at hundreds of fps, or even >=1KHz. Not sure about the resolution of those, though. |
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This is pretty cool. I visites the link to Sony and it looks amazing, especially since it should eventually appear in consumer products, not just in professional ones. Visiting the links on that pagee allows you to view demos of the capacities of these technologies. WOW. Just one negative comment on Sony. They offer 3 sample movies to download. Unfortunately they choose wmv as media file, the least capable of all media players format to present high definition content. Definitely check it out, the future is coming. |
