http://www.dalsa.com/sensors/products/dsc.asp

“Nikon, a top force in photography, continues to produce its “F Series”, the world’s leading single-lens reflex cameras. Renesas flash microcomputers are used as controllers in a number of models, including the company’s latest F6 flagship film-based model, D50 digital single-lens reflex camera, and D2x high-end digital flagship model.”

But thats controllers, not sensors.

we know its not the first 3, must be Phillips.

It is not at all unusual for a chip design company to be ‘fabless’. Sony is the exception in having its own fab. They can only afford to run the fab if they have near to full capacity which is almost certainly not going to happen with their own production runs alone.

That fab will certainly be running a large number of designs. It is highly unlikely that Sony ever intended to run the same sensor design as Nikon.

The way that VLSI is designed these days is by using ‘standard cell’ components. The D3 and D300 are not the same as the Sony sensor, they have a completely different autofocus architecture. The Sony sensor will have some Nikon design components in and vice versa.

The only common point is that a given fab is going to have a certain resolution limit and none of the sensors is going to go beyond that point. But that does not mean that every 22MP sensor produced in that fab is identical.

The only difference between a ‘Nikon sensor’ and a ‘Sony sensor’ in practice is who has the copyright on the design and the rights to sell it to third parties.

Could you tell the exact model ?

It doesn’t compare with a camcorder.
If HD Movie is Professionally implemented in the DSLR, then it would be like comparing a Point&Shoot with a FX body …

So, even if you don’t care to record movie and use your camcorder, Lot of people will do, and use the potential of HD Movie from a DSLR.

Like or not, It’s just a matter of time when DSLRs will deliver outstanding HD Video as they do with still imaging.

I like a device that does include many features, as long as they are really well implemented.

BTW, I use my cellphone just for calls and SMS (it doesn’t have even a camera.. and it’s B&W screen! )
But I know I will buy a new one when GPS gets well enough implemented on it, … I find that feature useful)

In any case, they should use a better than Sony’s

Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II looks much better to me, at least the sample pictures I saw, and the Movie was also very good (can’t tell for sure because I only saw some compressed web-video samples, but they looked good, much better than D90′s)

Aha – and what is the source for that statement?
I think the posts by “AxelR” are MUCH stronger than what you say when he lists the various resolution strings in the D3 including “6048×4032 24.4 M”
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1021&thread=27581087
and another post where he said “Someone typed those string in the firmware, and he/she probably did it for a good reason.”
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=27581402

In addition, Nikon HAS to deliver a high-MP camera to compete against Canon and Sony (and wasn’t there somewhere mentioned that another manufacturer will have one soon?)

But ok, your backdoor is that it will be below 24 MP…

b) Nikon ends the sensor deal with Sony.

Who says so (besides you)?

c) Nikon’s policy is to keep silent about other companies.

That’s true for most serious companies. So that’s a useless statement.

d) No 24 MP FX prototype

So you know all the prototypes floating around? Oh c’mon, it gets wilder and wilder with you…

e) MX dropped by Nikon three years ago because of not having enough money for it

So you mean a big group like Nikon couldn’t fund such a system, but a company like Leica can??

b) Deliver only valid rumors, no speculation?
That’s not possible, of course. But to take a sharp eye on the material coming in is possible.
Over the time one develops an “antenna” for the quality of the material sent.

And where to draw a line between “rumours” and “speculation”? Sometimes impossible. So YES, often there’s a thin – VERY thin – line between those two.

c) Have I followed the feedback?
Yes, I have. And I really like you are open to feedback (which doesn’t mean I expect you to follow any feedback from me, I am only *one* visitor here)! Being open to feedback is a vital part of a good site and of course I noticed your “this is my opinion” etc. – very good move in my opinion.

d) To add a survey is a smart move. And I think there’s some more potential in this site. Maybe a forum (with which categories? Don’t know…)? BUT a good forum involves some work, namely administration (NO, I don’t apply as a forum moderator!) to avoid the situation like on dpreview where some trolls can do whatever they want and others are banned for no apparent reason; also the silent axing of threads over there is bad behaviour.

Whatever you will do, take in mind this site is different from the others, it’s core is to deal with rumours regarding Nikon. I am curious what others think…

Maybe it was me, better you check by yourself the images.

The noise appears at 1600ISO and upper, but it is not an issue when doing studio shoot.

and, taking advantage that you work for Nikon or something like that, tell them to improve the Movie mode with professional-grade features and implementation. (full manual exposure, faster frame rate, up to full HD res, stereo Mic-in, etc, etc)

I know… some photo-guys don’t care about movie, but too many pros DO because they understand the potential of DSLR as HD Video recording tool and its lot of advantages (I won’t bother enumerating all of them here)

Maybe Nikon already realized it and works on it…

If you know, would be good to let us know too

Regards.