Sony published this video that contains two parts: The first is an interview with the engineer that lead the Sony A1 sensor design. The second part is with another engineer talking about the new 2 layer sensor. This new architecture approximately doubles saturation signal level relative to conventional image sensors, widens dynamic range and reduces noise, thereby substantially improving imaging properties. The new technology’s pixel structure will enable pixels to maintain or improve their existing properties at not only current but also smaller pixel sizes.

I wonder if we will get this new kind of sensor on the future A1II :)

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The new OM-1 features the Sony 20MP Quad Pixel sensor. It has 80 million individual photodiodes, 40m of them are green pixels and the rest is split in half between red and blue pixels. This tech was only used on smartphones until now.

GSMarena writes:

Image sensors, especially ones with small pixels like in smartphones, feature an on-chip micro lens array to help guide all the arriving light to the sensor’s photo diode. Right now, each pixel gets its own lens, but Sony has developed a way for four adjacent pixels to share a lens.

This is aimed at Quad Bayer sensors where the four pixels already share a color filter. Differences in the sensitivity of pixels prevented such designs, but Sony says it has figured it out and calls its technology 2×2 On-Chip Lens (OCL).

The question now is if we will see the same tech on future APS-C and Full Frame cameras too.

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We have our own Facebook camera groups you can join to discuss the upcoming new cameras in detail:
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