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Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera

Posted by simoniker on from the color-filter-volume-goes-to-four dept.

Artifex writes "If you're looking to spend about $1200 on a new digital camera, check out this Digital Photography Review look at Sony's upcoming 8 MegaPixel Cyber-shot DSC-F828. The most interesting thing isn't the number of pixels in this prosumer-grade camera, but its 4-color filter CCD system. ['Instead of the traditional RGB color filter array, the new CFA is made up of Red, Green, Blue and Emerald (like Cyan) color filters.'] I've always been a strict Canon fan, but this is making me think twice."

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  1. my only complaint: it's Sony by mblase · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sony technology is great. Really, it is. But their computer products are at least as restrictive as Apple's, if not more so. I've read too many reports on Memory Sticks being unreadable in Mac computers to even think about buying their cameras. Same with their CDRW and DVD drives. Their Clie handhelds run the Palm OS, but you need special shareware to sync it with a Mac. And from what I've heard, many non-Sony PCs have similar problems more often than they should.

    If I owned a Vaio PC, I'm sure it'd be no contest. But there's no question that if Sony could sell those PCs with their own branded version of Linux or BSD, they would.