Guys! Be prepared. Soon you will have to buy ton of hardware to handle the 120 megapixel photos that the new Canon sensor will take!
Dpreview reports:
Its surface area is halfway between APS-C and full-frame, and it appears to be mostly directed at video applications, capable of recording at approximately 60x the resolution of Full HD. The frame rate of read-out for this ultra high-resolution is 9.5fps, and is made possible by reading multiple pixels simultaneously at high speeds – a process Canon is calling ‘parallel signal processing’. The 120 million pixels – of 2.2 µm pixel pitch – are contained on a sensor 29.2mm x 20.2mm in size, yielding pixel dimensions of 13280×9184.
We love that new crazy Megapixel race! Finally we can take 100+ Megapixel shots of our beloved cats sitting on a sofa 🙂
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“We love that new crazy Megapixel race! Finally we can take 100+ Megapixel shots of our beloved cats sitting on a sofa :)”
And them post it on Instagram. 🙂
Is this the same 120 Mp sensor that Canon have had for years in their lens testing facilities?
Is there any sign that this will find its way to products they sell?
While the megapixel count is beyond any sensible limit for normal applications, it’s interesting this is a new APS-H sensor.
It’s sensible. With this sensor you could go with one prime lens and just crop instead of zoom.
That was my first thought. You could use a small 30mm pancake and get a 60mm fov with a 30mp image, or even a 120mm fov with a 7.5mp image. Almost 90mm fov with 15mp. That’s the biggest advantage of having so many mp.
Good. Just use wide fixed lens like zoom!
Good. Just use wide fixed lens like zoom!
Does Canon work on Artificial retina :p? I hope they will increase frame rate coz the world will seem very slow for this kind of Canon Eye owner
120 millions pixels on a full frame sensor is almost an human eye :p…. Will Sony be the first one to make an iEye camera 😉
I am not quite sure how many lenses out there would be able to deliver 120 MPix worth of resolution and frankly I doubt that this sensor is going to find its way to a camera anytime soon for various reasons (and not only because I would have not use for 120 Mpix 🙂 )
Canon has shown high resolution prototypes for years. I imagine an actual product is a few years away. They probably just show it to make sure people still think that they can still advance sensor tech.
120 megapixel, the main applications could be astro photography, Google Earth or maybe even microscope photography. I wonder how they would control the heat generated by the sensor when shooting at speeds of 9 fps. I think sometimes its a case of, we have the technology lets be the first, then its, what can we do with it. But thats how advancements in technolagy are made, even if at the time we dont actually need it.