Comments on: Exmor ‘R’ debuts in Handycams http://www.photoclubalpha.com/2009/01/08/exmor-r-debuts-in-handycams/ Search this site - over 170 articles on Alpha system topics! Subscribe to our magazine too! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:06:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: alphaomega http://www.photoclubalpha.com/2009/01/08/exmor-r-debuts-in-handycams/comment-page-1/#comment-1594 alphaomega Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:38:55 +0000 http://www.photoclubalpha.com/?p=1190#comment-1594 No details of the physical size of this Exmoor 'R' but it seems to go up to 12 Mp. I am certain that this technology will eventually migrate to the Alpha system. Considering a 2x increase in light to noise ratio with back lighting maybe an APS-C upgrade of the A700 could yield image quality to rival the current 12 Mp FF cameras such as D700 with even lower noise at higher ISOs. Maybe I am forever hopeful, but having decided to stay with APS-C I can see a worthwhile upgrade to my A700/A350 combo coming up within 12-24 months. Just think what such a sensor scaled up to FF will be able to do in terms of particularly spectacular high ISO performance. There is clearly a question of how good the performance improvement can be at 100/200 ISOs because of the limitations of the lenses to resolve more detail. Exiting times ahead. I will wait with any upgrades to my DSLRs until Sony brings out an APS-C model with this technology. No details of the physical size of this Exmoor ‘R’ but it seems to go up to 12 Mp. I am certain that this technology will eventually migrate to the Alpha system. Considering a 2x increase in light to noise ratio with back lighting maybe an APS-C upgrade of the A700 could yield image quality to rival the current 12 Mp FF cameras such as D700 with even lower noise at higher ISOs. Maybe I am forever hopeful, but having decided to stay with APS-C I can see a worthwhile upgrade to my A700/A350 combo coming up within 12-24 months. Just think what such a sensor scaled up to FF will be able to do in terms of particularly spectacular high ISO performance. There is clearly a question of how good the performance improvement can be at 100/200 ISOs because of the limitations of the lenses to resolve more detail. Exiting times ahead. I will wait with any upgrades to my DSLRs until Sony brings out an APS-C model with this technology.

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