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Re:Sony Releases Stacked CMOS Sensor for Smartphones with 48... by ekianjo on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @05:34AM (#17599376)
No shortage? Are you kidding? There is only Sony and Canon who make full frame sensors right now at mass market level (nikon is supplied by Sony), and the amount of cameras available with not-really-medium-format size, you can count on one hand. This is a far cry from the situation of film cameras where you had at least at least several dozens of medium format cameras available for purchase at once.
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Re:Sony Releases Stacked CMOS Sensor for Smartphones with 48... by Tloewald on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @10:41AM (#17601424)
Are you talking about sensors or film? Kodak and Fuji dominated film, and today Sony and Canon dominate sensors (Samsung had a pretty solid go of it and simply gave up). Lots of other companies make sensors but they aren’t competitive with Sony.

There are plenty of camera companies, mostly using Sony sensors or Sony fabs.

The lack of manufacturing diversity isn’t a shortage. It’s a different problem. Is there a shortage of cpus?

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Re:Sony Releases Stacked CMOS Sensor for Smartphones with 48... by namibj on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:21AM (#17600316)
What about CMOSIS, well, to be fair, the CMV50000 is still just sampling without bayer, but it's a really nice sensor, and you can't really say that it's brother the CMV12000 is bad.
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