Sound Vision sets a new standard for low-end professional digital cameras.(Sound Vision CMOS-Pro)(Product Announcement)

CMOS technology blows away pricing of standard CCD-based cameras

Following up last year's introduction of CMOS technology to digital cameras, Sound Vision this month announced a new camera that dramatically improves the price-performance ratio of professional-quality studio cameras.

The Sound Vision CMOS-Pro camera is an unprepossessing black box that produces images that are a mere 960800 pixels in resolution. But don't let surface impressions fool you: This camera produces images by which others-even those with a much higher nominal specification-should be judged.

The camera-aimed at those who can't afford a Leaf Digital Camera Back or similarly expensive studio cameras-will appeal to studio photographers, prepress shops and printers new to digital photography.

The CMOS advantage. Until now, all professional digital cameras-and most flatbed scanners-have used arrays of charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to capture images. The CMOS-Pro is the second camera, and the first professional one, to use a chip based on …