alundeb wrote:
The S100 sensor cannot be scaled to FF sizes for technical reasons.
Nobody said that the S100 sensor itself will be scaled to FF sizes.
This is a naive interpretation of what I said earlier.
To iterate my point:
The S100 sensor is quite obviously *not* made on the 300nm (350nm?) process, on which all other Canon sensors are still being made.
The significance of this fact is that Canon already has a non-300nm process in production.
Don\'t know if this is a 180nm process or something else but it\'s a non-300nm process for sure.
Historically, whenever Canon has implemented certain process improvements, they\'d lock their process and make multiple sensor/pixel sizes based on this process.
For example, the 1DII and the original 5D, 1DIII and 40D, 1DIV and 7D, etc..
So, based on historical data, it is safe to assume that S100 process will be locked at some point (if not locked already) and Canon will start using this process for making sensors of different sizes and pixel densities.
Let me clarify this again:
Canon will certainly not scale the S100 sensor to a FF sensor with 100+ megapixels (or whatever). It is indeed naive to think that.
But based on what Canon has been doing consistently in the past, it is quite certain that they will use the S100 process to make next generation 22-50mp FF sensors and 18-24mp 1.6x sensors.
You can be quite certain of that. Just think about it:
To make the S100 sensor, Canon must have spent 400+ USD millions to build the required facilities.
Do you think that they spent all this money to build sensors for low-margin P&S camera
When they can get these sensors - and are in fact gertting some of them - from Sony? For cheap.
The S100 sensor is the testbed for their next generation process, which will be scaled to FF and 1.6x.
(Again, they are not scaling the S100 sensor itself but the CMOS process, on which the S100 sensor is made).
Aug 26, 2012 at 12:48 PM
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