The new Nikon 1 ilc-camera series has an image sensor from the manufacturer aptina is offering, according to a teardown of the camera at Chipworks. Aptina is offering made september of last year known to go go down the dlsr – and ilc-market.
From the teardown by Chipworks reveals that the name aptina is offering the Nikon 1 V1 image sensor is featured. Although the Nikon 1 J1, the smaller variant of the Nikon 1 V1, not by Chipworks dismantled, it seems likely that this is the aptina is offering a sensor. The Nikon 1 J1 has similar specifications, this device has no electronic viewfinder built in, but a flash.
The total die size of the cmos sensor measure is 17.9 mm by 16.9 mm, while the useful surface for 13.2 by 8.8 mm, respectively. The sensor size is between that of a high-end compact camera and a Four Thirds sensor. Nikon calls this the CX-format. Although the effective resolution of the sensor is 10 megapixels, the sensor in a total of 12 megapixels and has a measured pixel size of 3.4 µm. The output of the aptina is offering a sensor is a maximum of 10 images per second.
Aptina is offering, a beeldsensorfabrikant based in California and with as majority shareholder Micron Technology, made last september by the well-known a cmos image sensor in aps-c format 16 megapixel to have been developed for use in dslr’s and ilc’s. The sensor made use of aptina is offering a’s DR-Pix-sensor technology for a higher dynamic range. There were no details to come out about possible customers for the new sensor or sensor technology. It is not known whether the Nikon 1 V1 sensor uses the DR-Pix technology.
The circuit board in the Nikon 1 V1 also features the Expeed 3 image processing engine, an Epson video processor which ensures that photos can be made without the video stream to pause, and memory chips of Samsung and Elpida. In total, the camera would 1GB of ddr2 memory.
