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In early 2008 Kodak will introduce image sensors that suck less

Categories: Research, Technologies
By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, January 5th, 2008 at 10:24 AM

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Current image sensors on cameras work by capturing a single color per pixel and ignoring the rest. Kodak hopes to change this in 2008 with prototypes of their new panchromatic equipped image sensors that stray away from the typical red green and blue by adding an extra monochrome pixel into the mix. This technique negatively impacts color reproduction, but increases sensitivity to light, a trade off that might seem worthy to some.

Now I never heard of this until I checked it out on Phone Boy’s blog this morning, but a Google search yields that this announcement is half a year old. That being said, the first prototypes are expected to come out in early 2008 and with rumors that Motorola is working with Kodak on a 5 megapixel cameraphone this should be a very interesting Mobile World Congress (aka 3GSM).

Hit up DP Review for more image samples provided by Kodak.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • JaXX

    Besides the jugling guy, it looks like the girls didn’t move a single angstrom in the previous pics, which then for me smells faked !

  • viipottaja.

    Lol.. JaXX, excellent point. Perhaps the girls suck more with the new technology?

  • MicahH

    Yes, it’s most definitely a fake shot. But, all this shows me is how badly their pictues suck now.

  • anon

    There are parallax differences between the two shots, which, together with the fact that the two models did not move, means the two images were taken at the same time with two different cameras.

  • manish

    1/60 sec is likely to produce slight blurring.
    ISO 100 is going to make picture less bright

    1/180 sec is going to be much sharper.
    ISO 300 is going to make the picture brighter.

    So it could be two identical cameras placed next to each others.