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Originally Posted by marki
Greg are you reffering to mono only? Sony make a 14.2 mp chip with 5 x 5 um pixels, the ICX 453 has 7.8 x 7.8 pixels, ICX 493 has 6 x 6 and ICX 429 AL has 8.6 x 8.6. The Sony chips are much cleaner and many users don't bother with darks, it is the Kodak chips which have a lot of noise. If Kodak does go down the Sbend I imagine sony would pick up the slack anyway.
Mark
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Yes I was referring to mono.
Kodak also now are selling their True Sense one shot colour which sounds like they are a step forward from the Bayer Matrix one shot colour.
Perhaps its part of Kodaks problem. Sony make these little small chips that are probably great for Mobile Phone cameras where the massive demand is whereas Kodak make the big chips that are so good for astroimaging.
But that is a good point, someone else would simply buy the chip part of the business. But they may raise prices a lot if they did??
Greg.