http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/01/23/Sony_Backsideilluminated_CMOS
You may recall that it was the backside illumination Sony Exmor chip that was used in (at least) the K-x and first delivered the low noise high-iso performance that continued with the K-r and K-5. I think it is very smart of Sony to do their initial development of ideas like this on phone-sized sensors. I would imagine that they can take lessons learned and build them into larger sensors down the road. In the meantime they can sell a metric buttload of them. (For example, if used in future iPhones, sales of iPhones in the last quarter alone was 37 million units). That's a lot of phone camera sensors. This got me thinking that if this development track is true (small sensors on up to larger ones) for cost and sales numbers reasons) ... then a full frame camera would probably be the last one in the chain to reap the benefits, chronologically. (APS-C would see it sooner). Sure, it's unadulterated speculation but it's High Quality Grade A unadulterated speculation in HD. : ) Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
