Mumm… This may make me re-think my choice of Nikon as my main camera. I love the idea that the image sensor (CCD) is split between normal imaging units and ones that are set to capture a broader range of light. This gets the medium of digital photography closer to the tonal range that chemical photography has. If your lost, this means that if your taking pictures at the beach on a sunny day you will have a better chance of getting details in the shadows then you normally would. I have some examples of high dynamic range images here if you want to take of look. The camera won’t take photos like these but you can see what you get when you have more data across the full range of light values in a photo.
Fujifilm has today announced the Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro, or at least the development of it, due to be available in ‘early 2007’. The S5 Pro features the same SuperCCD SR design sensor although now called ‘SR Pro’, it features 6.17 million ‘S photodiodes’ (normal DR) and 6.17 million ‘R photodiodes’ (highlight DR) for a total photodiode count of 12.34 million.