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Sony’s Transparent-Mirror Cameras Repackage 1965 Canon Tech

Sony has announced a camera with a new kind of mirror that gives it the fast-focussing of an SLR and the shooting speed and live-view of a mirrorless camera. Sony claims this technology as “ground-breaking”. The problem is that Canon already did it back i

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/sonys-transparent-mirror-cameras-repackage-1965-canon-tech/

Canon Inc. announced today that it has successfully developed an APS-H-size*1 CMOS image sensor that delivers an image resolution of approximately 120 megapixels (13,280 x 9,184 pixels), the world’s highest level*2 of resolution for its size.

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