Kodak announce a new 5MP CMOS sensor jointly developed with IBM but in the very same press conference announce that they are pulling out of the low profit/saturated market lower end ‘EasyShare’ camera business and focusing instead on high end solutions. Either they consider a 5MP CMOS sensor high end (unlikely) or this will find its way licensed into other manufacturers budget offerings and into the upcoming Motorola/Kodak mobile phone ventures (much more likely).
After a seemingly endless will they won’t they tussle, Hoya finally appear to have taken control of Pentax with virtually all of the Pentax board subsequently committing corporate seppuku in response.
Sony publically gives the nod to Nikon to use their new 18+MP non full frame sensor for 12 months before they license its use to anyone else – presumably this will find a home in the much rumoured D2 replacement model – simultaneously confirming the D3’s main specification and scotching the many rumour mills that had been chattering about a full frame 22MP jobbie to try and see off the equally much hyped but unseen Canon replacement for the next 1DS incarnation.
Fujifilms professional division does a strange u-turn and recommits to conventional film production with the re-launch of their previously axed high end Velvia 50 products. They had previously abandoned production due to poor sales and lack of availability of the required raw materials. They have, however, been working feverishly in the shadows developing new synthetic substitutes for these materials that have allowed them to breathe new life into the ailing film market.
After a seemingly endless will they won’t they tussle, Hoya finally appear to have taken control of Pentax with virtually all of the Pentax board subsequently committing corporate seppuku in response.
Sony publically gives the nod to Nikon to use their new 18+MP non full frame sensor for 12 months before they license its use to anyone else – presumably this will find a home in the much rumoured D2 replacement model – simultaneously confirming the D3’s main specification and scotching the many rumour mills that had been chattering about a full frame 22MP jobbie to try and see off the equally much hyped but unseen Canon replacement for the next 1DS incarnation.
Fujifilms professional division does a strange u-turn and recommits to conventional film production with the re-launch of their previously axed high end Velvia 50 products. They had previously abandoned production due to poor sales and lack of availability of the required raw materials. They have, however, been working feverishly in the shadows developing new synthetic substitutes for these materials that have allowed them to breathe new life into the ailing film market.