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The LBCAST sensor is the heart of Nikon's D2H digital
camera (top). The D2H captures the high-speed
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Nikon is the
world leader in professional-quality digital cameras, as
well as in film cameras for professionals. Its revolutionary
new image sensor helps greatly increase the speed at which
photographers can take digital photos. Nikon unveiled the
new sensor in July, and the first camera equipped with the
sensor, the D2H, went on sale in markets worldwide in autumn.
The D2H is the latest in Nikon's pioneering
line of digital single lens reflex cameras. Nikon's D1 blazed
a new trail in single lens reflex cameras based on digital
imaging technology in 1999. And the company has since built
a dominant position in that product sector.
Developing the new sensor independently has
made Nikon the master of its fate in a component crucial
to digital cameras. Accompanying the sensor's blazing speed
are 4.1-megapixel clout and stingy energy consumption. The
sensor's junction field-effect transistor (JFET) technology
is a departure from complementary metal oxide semiconductor
(CMOS) technology. It also differs from the charge-coupled
device (CCD) imaging employed in mass-market digital cameras.
Nikon has dubbed the sensor a lateral buried charge accumulator
and sensing transistor array (LBCAST).
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