For the techies among us . . .

[flamin lib]

Olympus researchers have created an innovative new “3D stacked” CMOS image sensor that has both global-shutter and high-speed capturing modes. It is able to capture photos at up to 10000 frames per second.

The development will published in a paper and presented at the upcoming 2015 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits (a conference on semiconductors and circuits) in Japan in June 2015.

Olympus will share their new 16-megapixel sensor that can either shoot 16MP photos with a global shutter (i.e. the entire frame is captured at once instead of line by line as with rolling shutters) or 2MP photos at a whopping 10000fps.

Not too much has been said about the potential for seeing this sensor in future consumer cameras, but Olympus did release a series of 4 sample photos of a spinning fan. The speed of this new sensor can be seen in how little the fan’s blades move across 8 exposures by the camera.

Nothing more at the link, very short article.

[alfredo]

1. Olympus is really pushing the technology. Great

[flamin lib]

2. It's one of the great things that came out of the mirrorless

camera surge. The biggies in DSLR have 70% of the market so they can afford to just rest on their laurels and keep on making the same old same old. Innovation to them is a few more pixels in the sensor.

All the "lesser known" brands like Fuji, Sony et al have to innovate to compete and stay in the market. Olympus has a lot of divisions: Medical, optical (non camera), digital recording and of course cameras.

But I do have a bitch that I'll post here later.

[alfredo]

3. Sensor technology is changing quickly because of Sony and the mirrorless world.