Quantum dots....

the article says these dots will be in phones in 2011 to out perform bigger cameras. Im sure they will go into bigger cameras and be put to better use :thumbs: great little find!
 
Ooo, that's interesting... I wonder which of the major manufacturers will snap that up first?

Well spotted! :)

Si
 
If the company is only demoing the technology for the first time this week, it's going to be a while before we see it in mass produced products.

The developers are suggesting they'll appear in cameras mid 2011, but that only gives 12 months to find a buyer, get it designed into a completely new camera, have all the assocated R&D completed around that and then manufacture the thing. I do think that's a little optimistic...
 
It will be interesting to see what happens though. A new sensor that is much more sensitive to light and can be smaller for the same pixel counts is a good direction to head in IMHO...
 
It's gonna make me such a great photographer - all them extra pixels and stuff - Oh, maybe not perhaps I've gotta think a bit more about this. Maybe better composition, control of lighting, timing, the ability to recognise a good picture when I see one. No I'm wrong - Pixels, more pixels, more pixels and on my phone whoopee!!!!
 
nb62 said:
It's gonna make me such a great photographer - all them extra pixels and stuff - Oh, maybe not perhaps I've gotta think a bit more about this. Maybe better composition, control of lighting, timing, the ability to recognise a good picture when I see one. No I'm wrong - Pixels, more pixels, more pixels and on my phone whoopee!!!!
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It's not just for phones.... and are you saying you wouldn't prefer to have a smaller camera, better high ISO performance, and at less cost? Lets all go back to one mega pixel camera's then... :D There is a good reason Panasonic are selling lots of GF1's ;)
 
Hmm, an experimental tech with no saleable sample, I'm yet to be worried.

Also some of the info in that report is not what I would call great, for example, chips with the wiring on the back and tunnelled through to photosites is being developed, normal computer chips were supposed to have hit this theoretical "brick wall" years ago, and the fact that micro lenses touch at their front edges and focus the light onto the sensor means that much less light is lost onto the on chip wiring.

Still an interesting potential tech ***.

Nick.
 
And here's what it looks like. Try not to get too excited! :)
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"promises 4x higher performance and 2x higher dynamic range than what can be achieved with current sensors"
 
Munchkinn said:
It's not just for phones.... and are you saying you wouldn't prefer to have a smaller camera, better high ISO performance, and at less cost? Lets all go back to one mega pixel camera's then... :D There is a good reason Panasonic are selling lots of GF1's ;)
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No, what I'm saying is that no matter how small, powerful, cheap, sensitive, mega pixelated the camera is, it will not improve on the fact that the photographer is the most important part of taking the picture. I've seen more great pictures on this website taken with lowly equipment but by excellent photographers than I care to think of. I've also seen some pretty poor pics taken with top of the range gear by mediocre photographers. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of these sorts of devices and the advantages that they give to us all but they will never make me or anyone else a 'better' photographer and that's probably why I have antiquated kit and am not jumping for joy at every new gimmick that is announced. I enjoy taking pictures, I would very much like to improve as I'm not that good, but more pixels etc. is unlikely to help me but it will sell cameras to the equipment junkie I guess.
 
nb62 said:
No, what I'm saying is that no matter how small, powerful, cheap, sensitive, mega pixelated the camera is, it will not improve on the fact that the photographer is the most important part of taking the picture. I've seen more great pictures on this website taken with lowly equipment but by excellent photographers than I care to think of. I've also seen some pretty poor pics taken with top of the range gear by mediocre photographers. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of these sorts of devices and the advantages that they give to us all but they will never make me or anyone else a 'better' photographer and that's probably why I have antiquated kit and am not jumping for joy at every new gimmick that is announced. I enjoy taking pictures, I would very much like to improve as I'm not that good, but more pixels etc. is unlikely to help me but it will sell cameras to the equipment junkie I guess.
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Well if that is what you are saying, then I agree, but then I would when I'm happy with my Nikon D40... =) (better high ISO performance would be nice though lol) :p
 
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