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Old 23-11-2014, 01:22 PM
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Sony is making significant strides ahead and seems intent on kicking both Nikon and Canon in the butt. Fuji are developing an organic sensor with 15 stops of Dynamic Range. It may be a long way off being introduced though.

They have developed a new era type sensors, one is curved the other is
active pixels so every pixel takes an RGB image and its capable of 16,000 fps plus it has large pixels for high sensitivity and hopefully low high ISO noise (unknown). It has a global shutter and is no doubt going to be 4K video (could be good for planets as well).

That if it does in fact have low high ISO noise will definitely be the bees knees. A Sony mirrorless full frame pro camera is due to be released shortly. I don't know if this advanced sensor is ready for release yet or may end up in a phone first. If not then its likely to be a 48 or 50mp full frame sensor like used in the Pentax 645 medium format camera.

Not everyone likes Sony mirrorless yet as the lens lineup is still being released but what they have put it is high quality (except for the 24-70 F4).There is a lot of brand loyalty in the camera world so it does require a really significant advantage to pull customers away from their usual brands.

The latest Sony A7 11 has 5 axis in camera IBIS (in camera stabilisation from the Olympus which sony bought off Olympus to use).
Not useful for astro but awesome for 3rd party manual focus lenses that now have a 4.5 stop advantage in shutter speed due to this plus improves video as well as different high dynamic range video codecs.

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