digitalkamera.de Reports on Fuji European Press Conference

From the German digitalkamera.de web site comes this interesting news gleaned from Fuji's European press conference about their new SuperCCD.

"Due to their [SuperCCD] octogonal shape, these are also better matched to circular light-collecting microlenses and gain a higher light yield from both properties, that is to say a higher light sensitivity with improved signal-to-noise ratio and higher dynamics. According to Fujifilm, there's no real reason why we shouldn't see an ISO 800 camera.

Real products created from these [SuperCCD] advances are to be expected from Fujifilm from the first half of 2000. Within this time-scale, the company hopes to announce an amateur digital camera that achieves the resolution of a 4 million pixel camera. Nikon, which was for many years Fuji´s partner in the professional imaging market, deciding to go it´s own ways, Fujifilm didn´t want to leave this part of the market to it´s competitors. Thus, a digital Super CCD SLR-camera for those with elevated tastes can also be expected in the near future. "