A couple of months ago Sony officially stated via Impress Japan that they are working on a 100 Meapixel sensor (Click here to download the pdf interview). According to our top sources Sony will display a 100 Megapixel camera prototype with organic sensor and modified RGB matrix at the Photokina show in September. Here are the details of the camera named A101:
– SLT technology (pellix mirror can be flipped up!)
– 100 Megapixel sensor with random RGB matrix and no Anti Aliasing Filter. Similar to the current Fuji X PRO 1 sensor matrix.
– Full Frame sensor size with in body Stabilization
– ISO 50 up to 3.200 (with extension to 12.800)
– 3fps. 5fps with vertical grip attached
The camera aims to compete in the same price league of the Nikon D800 (the current most sold DSLR) and the Canon 5DmarkII. As I said, the camera will be shown as prototype and I guess it will be available a couple of months later (early 2013?).
Today…is really a ig day!!! 🙂
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Umm, is this an April Fool’s joke ? We can’t have every new technology and 100MPx. Andrea, u pulling ‘a fast one’ here ?
Exactly, this is a false story.
Plus the image of the organic sensor was stolen from Fuji.
What a shame ! 🙂
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When you wrote that mirror can be flipped up, I knew immediately this was April fool’s.
Of course it is…come on…”A101″? April 1st.
Any one belives in mirror flipping? 🙂
happy fools’ day
Andrea.. how can you do this to us ? 🙁
i remember the a77 rumor on last year April 1st:D
but that was SR77, this one’s SR5 =\
ONLY ISO 3200?? This must be a joke.
Happy Fool’s Day
Good News. The new full frame kamera should be available in mai (http://www.d-slt.de/vollformatkamera-sony-mai-36-mp/). This is the blog which has preview the A65 and A77 pictures last year.
Do Germans also participate in April Fool’s pranks? I’ve refreshed that link you posted a couple of times, and each time the specs are updated to something even more unbelievable than the last time. First it was a 2.3 million dot OLED EVF, now it’s a Retina display. They’ve also added the bit about the detachable touchscreen and the projector. That, plus the 38 AF points — again, this should be an odd number — tells me this is another prank.
Yes we german to also participate in April Fool’s pranks. So this could be possible. I should not read news on the Aprils first. 😀
Super ! Toll !! 🙂
5fps with vertical grip attached. Hahah, I LOL’d 😀
Good one, admin. 🙂
Yes but like Nikon it is not at full rex but a paltry 25 MP
😉
I Hate April 1 🙂
BTW Sony release a amazing product today !
http://blog.sony.com/q
Iso50 not extendable to iso25?
We would need at least 16gb system ram and 4 to 8 cpu cores to edit such raw files. Geeeeez!!!
This chip has been discussed before today. and 16GB of ram is nothing if you are a PRO. My workstations have 128GB of Ram and dual 6 core xeon (24 virtual cores with hyper threading) with 28 Drive Fibre channel Raid directed attached (and then also serving other workstations via SAN. Now the story might be April fools but they have been talking about this chip for a year and Sony showed a 100MP chip. (Phase one already has a 80MP digital back that I use regularly. although this chip is much LARGER in area)
http://www.teledynedalsa.com/semi/technology/legacycmos.aspx
Phase one and Leaf both use DALSA chips.
Some people want the world to stop just because they can’t afford to keep up with it.
If you don’t want a high MP sensor in a camera don’t buy one.
Geeeeez!!! Emopunk yourself, I’d expect an emo boy to understand change, the inability of change and the need for change more than most.
LOL I undestand indeed. But don’t get too excited. We’re not going to see anything like that anytime soon. In the meanwhile Randy S. compunter will be the average PC to play youtube videos..
lol. Its not like its a home computer. 😉 Its much better for pron with the 46 inch led LCD reference monitor that hooked up to it anyway.
Randy sounds like overkill. I work at a high volume studio editing thousands and thousands of 24mp files from D3x, A900 (event photography) and our workstations have a “wimpy” 16gb of ram and dual xeon 2.4ghz procs. Don’t think you can touch our 50tb server though 😉
LOL I just finished working on the Hunger Games. Im guessing we top you. 24mp is not enough to even handle the data coming off the sphereon cameras and our leaf aptus II 12’s (80MP) not to mention the rest of the standard VFX pipeline.
admin you are so cute! 😀
It’s finally come with tethering. Owh wait, it isn’t. Burnnnnnn…
Happy Fool’s day to all Sony community!
It’s not even a shame that this is an April Fool’s joke 🙂
Throw in a 36×36 sensor, and I’d want to believe.
What? No even on April Fool’s day Sony can make a High Iso King camera? What a shame! 😛
The A600 rumour would have been perfect for today.
DO WANT.
I’m throwing my money at the screen but nothings happening!!!
Throw it harder. Keep going until the screen cracks, then you can pull the prize out through it.
+1!
You have to hit the screen with your head, as hard as you can, in order to let something good happen. Let us know when you try!
Just some real news of a ff will be fine
Please put this sensor in a Full Frame NEX, Sony!
I would also buy any 36×36 camera you would make with this sensor technology in it! Please make that a mirrorless camera, also! I want to use my legacy Medium Format lenses and other 35mm lenses!!!
i hate april fool…
What is with the pdf, it has frigging weird noodle writing in it!!!
“English Motherfucker Do You Speak It”
better story would be that “zeiss is going to remake 21,28,45 and 90 mm contax lenses for e-mount full frame nex-9 in 2013”.. don’t we all want that?
Why bother when they have a Zeiss f2.0 pancake zoom in the works?
One great advantage of the organic sensor is that they have definite shelf life and will disintegrate beyond use on time before the next product comes along. 😉
Kind of a self destruct button. 🙂
It must be true, I just preordered it at sonystyle.com.
I’m in China here still 23 mins before I could escape by the time I checked SAR for such an sensation…looks like you made my day !
April… come she will when streams are ripe and swelled with rain! 😉
…you’d totally misunderstood that Japanese interview you’ve linked, mate 😛
Ha~ Happy April’s Fool~ XD
Funny thing is that its possible, maybe not with orgranic sensor, but it can be done with CMOS. Some maybe remember that last year Canon showed prototype (working) of 120 mpix CMOS full-frame sensor (they said something that it will be “finished” in 4-5 years or so). I guess Sony could easily done same..
It would be nice jump and competition would be just smoked.. (and we would need a lot better PCs :D).
The words, “pellix mirror can be flipped up”, are like music to my ears. There may be hope yet for Sony in the professional market.
For some reason I’d sooner believe 100MP than believe that. Sony is that sort of company.
You mean the sort of company that pros go to for video…
No, a company that is prone to missing the point. Like someone else I can think of.
I almost shed a tear when I saw this post! … Then I clicked on comments, realized what the date was, and that tear let loose :'( …that was cruel, it was good and I’m a sucker, but cruel lol. I bought my A900 as an upgrade from my A100 while I went back to school recently (just before it went discontinued), so I’m dying to see what Sony has next! ( I do love optical viewfinder though :/
I’m a fool. Dammit.
I know April Fools is suppose to be funny and everybody should have a sense or humor but I really hate wasting time reading fake articles and lessen my respect to certain site.
This is a rumor site but it is on my daily “read up” list along with NYTimes, DPreview, Anandtech and Edmunds.com. It shows how much respect I have for Admin. I wish Admin could tag April Fools articles with a <> tag so those of us that prefer real news/rumor would skip it.
I would go to Facebook and YouTube to be fooled but those sites are only slightly better than 4Chan so you’d expect it.
Perhaps you should spend the 1st going out taking photos. Getting too addicted to the 24 hour news cycle isn’t healthy.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive, I can take photographs and read news sites just fine. I also find time to eat, sleep and shit, amazing huh?
sonya77 you are the first to shit in sleep
Some loperamide might help with that.
It was cold and raining yesterday. Besides, you are here so you cannot wait for the normal camera news either.
Heh, maybe. I actually really like April fools, though. We can all take life a bit too seriously sometimes.
Are you seriously saying that you got past the first line without realising that it was an April Fool?
There are a lot of crazy prototype in labs.
You know that most Linux Projects for example do Jokes like kernel.org and Archlinux/SuSE/RedHat did last year.
so even admins like the one at Google or other very large companys (Red Hat is doing more than a billion $ per year) have enough humor for an april joke.
Those CEOs should sent out a memo to WSJ that it’s going bankrupt. Lets see how that works out.
24mp never do well already, still want play 100mp? It’s joke with us? LOLx …
If sony makes a square 37mp sensor it shoud be c size 24mm square. That would be compatable with more lenses, preserve the crop factor and be better for macro or long lens pix.
When they do come out with a 60 or 100mp square sensor that would be better for full frame 36mm square.
it is very ezy