Sony Tidbits (iPhone uses Sony sensor technology)
MEMOVY from Lucas Zanotto on Vimeo.
Chipworks confirmed that the new iPhone5 uses a Sony sensor. Another step into world wide domination form Sony 
And because we are talking about iPhones I invite you to watch the movie I embedded on top. It’s an application made by a long time SonyAlphaRumors reader. Thought it may interest you to see how it works. You can read the full description and download the application on iTunes (Click here). Thanks Lukas for sharing this!
And here are more news and readers mail:
33 Objektive in Test und Bestenliste (Chip.de).
Michal: Pictures from the Hasselblad Photokina booth on Facebook.
Tynana: My biggest gripe with the NEX 5 series has been the lack of audio in. Today I spent about six hours dissecting the ECM-SST1 and the NEX flash to combine them to make audio-in. Although I tried many different things, I couldn’t figure out how to get a stereo input, so I eventually settled on mono. The project is medium difficult… to get it to fit nicely in the flash you have to desolder a big switch from the microphone board, and you have to solder a couple tiny wires. But then again… I’m terrible at soldering and I managed it. Here is the picture: http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj524/picrumors/DSC03596_zpsbd76e739.jpg. Unfortunately I got overeager after I got it working and I got a big glob of solder on one of the connectors, thus breaking it. I’ve ordered another sony microphone to take the connector out of, and should have picture of the finished product and some sample videos soon! For now I’ve attached a couple pictures. The side of the unit will look a lot nicer once I’m finished– I haven’t put the side panels back on yet.
Vladislav: Today I stumbled upon a video of Gary Fong reviewing briefly the a77. Now I know that nowadays there’s quite a bit fuzz about the new a99 (which I should say looks just GREAT, although the 6fps kinda make me feel glad I got a77 and didn’t wait for the a99 to come out), but the a77 ain’t that old yet Here is the video if you think the SAR fans as myself would enjoy it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imT31-hvmSU&feature=related
Simon
8 months ago |First!
Me
8 months ago |Sony good in hardware but bad in software… my sony ray supposedly has the same sensor as iphone 4s and the pictures are dreadful due to bad jpeg processing… whereas apple’s are great.
nex5 jpegs are also quite bad…
Moon
8 months ago |Regarding Tynana’s project .. this could have been soooo easy for Sony, to put in a 3.5 mm jack somewhere. It’s all about money making, either forcing the user to buy proprietary stuff or to buy the follow up version. I also believe, that all the improvements of the NEX-5R were already worked out BEFORE the NEX-5N came out.
Max
8 months ago |Stop with this posts, Andrea, please.
Nobody cares. And even if some, is not relevant anyway.
admin
8 months ago |I post 1200 news per year. Just kip the fe you don’t like
Sky_walker
8 months ago |I do care. And really like them. Personally more then often I find much more interesting information in posts like that then in NEX news.
If anything – stop the NEX news, and perhaps move them to a new website (sonynexrumors.com?) just like 4/3 got it’s own rumors next to mirrorlessrumors
acolyte
8 months ago |Butbut.. I like the NEX news.. :p
Rooru S.
8 months ago |My question right now is, WHY Sony didn’t put a microphone input for the NEX-6. Can anyone answer what options do we have for that?
kiril
8 months ago |The a99 advanced audii rig attached to the flash should work
Calistoga Tony
8 months ago |Old news. iPhone 4 used 5MP BSI sony sensor, when the 4s went up to 8MP, it was confirmed to be a Sony BSI sensor. So with the iPHone 5 using a 8MP BSI sensor AGAIN, did anyone need chipworks to confirm where the sensor came from?
anonymous
8 months ago |Iphone 4 uses a 5M BSI omnivision module, confirmed by chipworks
Vlad
8 months ago |Gary Fond is clueless!
William Leong
8 months ago |Gary Fong was wrong. 24mp instead of 21mp on the A77 and his high speed drive, based on the sound, was on 8fps, not the 12fps as he claimed it to be. Just saying.. LOLZ.
zetlorf
8 months ago |Andrea, i don’t like your Sony fanatism. “Another step into world wide domination form Sony
” You really think this is a good thing for us? I have a Sony camera, but i don’t like what Sony is doing lately: high pricing for basic prime lenses?! It’s good to have a strong competition and the prices should remain on earth, and not for the increase of these big companies’s profit.
admin
8 months ago |Damn, people don’t get the irony
roger48
8 months ago |Sony and other companies, large and small, are in business to make profits. They do so by making and selling products that people want to buy at prices that the market will bear.
If you cannot afford the products from Sony or whomever, tough, just buy what you can afford and stop whineing.
acolyte
8 months ago |More like time for Canikon to open their eyes and stop ignoring Sony.
Complain to them for not making enough effort to de-monopolize the market.
All because they’re ‘scared of cannibalizing their DSLR market’
And their ignorance burdens consumers, not themselves.
Gab
8 months ago |I’m realy interested in Tynana’s hack, can you have more information about that? ore maybe a way to contact him?
Thanks
NEXfive
8 months ago |+1 (extremely exciting idea to add audio-in to the HVL-F75 flash!)
pancanikonpus
8 months ago |Admin posted this just reflected that Sony engineers are so bad, same sensor but perform poorer than other Nikon DSLR
NR, Jpeg, ISO
riccardocovino
8 months ago |I’m really interested in Tynana experiment. Can we have a contact?