14 DAY TRIAL // One of the biggest imaging events of the year – Photokina, is just on our door step and while we wait for the days to go by and for the moment to arrive, we get an interesting piece of info from Sony.
As reported by Nikkei, Sony has developed a new BSI sensor which is 10 times as sensitive compared to the previous generation.
The sensor has been designed to work in concert with things like security cameras and will bestow upon them the capability of shooting in an environment with illuminance of zero lux.
The new sensor tech has been embedded in three types of network cameras, which Sony will start releasing starting September 12, in series. So it’s pretty obvious that we’re going to be looking at them at Photokina 2014 next week.
How do the new cameras operate? Well, they detect the levels of illuminance in the environment and if they are found to be low, they switch to a mode where they irradiate infrared light and take a black and white picture with a range of 30m or so.
The system uses a backside-illuminated CMOS sensor which helps to improve the dynamic range. Most interestingly, the camera is capable of synthesizing two images taken at different shutter speed for the same frame, so it can produce images devoid of blown-out highlights and crushed blacks.