>all of the cameras use a sony sensor>doesn't matter the price, even at $8000 you get a snoy in a box
Aside from Canon, what brands make their own sensors? I know Kodak used to make sensors, or at least they did for some other brands like Olympus.
Didn't Panasonic get a non-snoy sensor for the G9ii?
>>4307996Canon also seem to use those type 1 Sony sensors.
>>4307994The sensor is a monochrome photon counter, nothing more, and sony builds them to client specs under sony's rules. It's often not the same sensors they use in their own cameras, which is why you dont see nikon using the a7riv or a7iv sensor ever and they've been using revisions of the d750 and d850 sensors instead.CFA specs and signal processing, which actually matter for more than signal to noise ratio and readout speed, vary by brand, and its been theorized that sony draws up contracts affecting these that cripple their competition if they buy a sony sensor, ie: >fuji can only have sony's next gen 40mp APS-C sensors if fuji does not make an APS-C camera with a bayer array, as the resolution increase from switching back to the superior CFA would BTFO the entire a6 line and sony would lose their entire APS-C customer base (and probably some FF users) to fuji.>nikon receives semi-crippled sensors for fps/video simply because they are significantly better at making cameras and lenses than sony, resulting in nikon to struggle to support competitive sports/video features - hence nikon's recent purchase of RED - and therefore RED's contracts with non-sony sensor suppliers. sony probably straight up told them that they would never provide nikon with global shutter technology and that was it.>LEGALLY POSSIBLE WITH LOTS OF NDAS: Sony can theoretically say "we will give you this sensor, but this list of features must not be supported until X amount of time has passed" in a contract, making them an unseen hand in controlling the entire camera market and maintaining their #2 position
Selling out to snoy was a mistake
>>4307996None.Panasonic sold off their fabs several years ago and Kodak did well before that.Supposedly, Nikon sourced one or more sensors from TowerJazz for the D700/800 line.Sigma had Foveon manufactured by Dongbu, but, reportedly, that ended as a result of them fucking up the full frame design.Phase One might still get theirs from Dalsa. Though, I'm not sure who the supplier is after they transitioned to CMOS.I also haven't heard who Leica gets their 30x45mm stuff from.
>>4309550Canon's used Sony for many of their compacts.
