Canon to start selling sensors to other companies?

[ahsanford]

News?

http://petapixel.com/2016/09/01/canon-sell-cmos-sensors-companies-first-time/

Curious to see what the EXMOR-loving Nikon camp does if the D820/D900 turns out to just have a 5D4 sensor dropped in it.

Given all the proprietary mojo Canon has wicked into its sensor development (DPAF in particular), I'm guessing this if Canon starts selling sensors, it won't be in 'our' end of photography. I'm assuming they'd make a bigger push in non-consumer areas like security, machine vision, etc. but I very well could be wrong.

- A

 

[Donkey_Kong]

It might be the only way canon can keep up with Nikon

 

[pokerz]

Canon gonna sell their 18M CMOS I bet.

 

[Sporgon]

I thought it was already a Canon sensor in the D5 :-X

 

[1kind]

The sensors are not for other camera manufacturers. The sensors are actually for machines and not for competitor cameras. No way would Canon sell their sensors to be put on competitor cameras.

Canon makes their own sensors for their cameras for the most part but some of the lower end cameras such as powershots use Sony sensors because its more cost effective.