Tag Archives: Chipworks

Surprise: the sensor inside the Nikon D5200 is made by Toshiba

By [NR] admin | Published: January 8, 2013

The sensor inside the Nikon D5200 camera is made by Toshiba. This is what Chipworks discovered after they took apart the D5200:

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Chipworks: Nikon D600 sensor made by Sony

By [NR] admin | Published: November 7, 2012

Chipworks confirmed that the IMX128L sensor inside the Nikon D600 camera is made by Sony (IMX markings are used by Sony). From the recently announced DSLRs, only the D4 and D3200 (and probably the D5200) used sensors designed by Nikon.

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Chipworks reports on the sensors used in Nikon DSLR cameras

By [NR] admin | Published: October 25, 2012

Based on their numerous tear-downs of Nikon cameras in the past, Chipworks published an article on the sensors used in Nikon’s DSLRs:

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Confirmed: the sensor inside the Nikon D800 is made by Sony

By [NR] admin | Published: August 29, 2012

  Chipwors confirmed that the 36MP sensor (IMX094AQP) inside the Nikon D800 is made by Sony. The interesting part is that Sony decided to use a 24MP chip in their upcoming top of the line A99 full frame camera that will be priced at $2,800.

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The sensor inside the D4 is made by Nikon

By [NR] admin | Published: August 22, 2012

Chipworks has a new report online for the Nikon D4 and the 16.2MP FX CMOS sensor inside (NC81366W) is made by Nikon. Similar to the D3, D3s, D700 and D3100, the sensor inside the D3200 was also made by Nikon. The D7000 did use a Sony sensor. Few months ago there were some rumors that […]

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The sensor inside the D3200 is made by Nikon

By [NR] admin | Published: June 22, 2012

Chipworks teared down a Nikon D3200 DSLR camera and found that the 24MP sensor inside is made by Nikon. The sensors of the Nikon D3, D3s, D700 and D3100 are also all made by Nikon. The sensor of the D7000 is made by Sony.

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Teardown of the Nikon V1 camera

By [NR] admin | Published: November 4, 2011

Chipwork did a tear down of the Nikon V1 camera. This is what they found inside: Aptina image sensor EXPEED 3 processor manufactured by Nikon 1GB of DDR2 memory Epson E03100F0A video processor chip

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Nikon D5100 teardown

By [NR] admin | Published: April 26, 2011

While waiting for the announcement of the Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.8G lens which is less than 12 hours away, take a look at this Nikon D5100 teardown performed by Ifixit:

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