Canon introduced that it has created a new 410-megapixel, 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor, “the largest number of pixels ever achieved” in a sensor of its measurement.
Because of the extent of element the brand new sensor can seize, Canon expects it for use by”surveillance, medicine and industry,” the place there’s demand for “extreme resolution.” With 410 megapixels, Canon’s sensor has a decision of 24K, 198 instances better than HD, and 12 instances better than 8K. That makes it easy to crop after which enlarge a photograph captured by the sensor with out shedding element.
Typically, sky-high megapixel counts are restricted to cameras with medium-format sensors. But the great thing about Canon cramming this many pixels into 35mm is that it ought to have the ability to be used “in combination with lenses for full-frame sensors.”
Canon needed to make greater than a few design modifications to make this occur. The new sensor has a redesigned circuitry sample and a “back-illuminated stacked formation” the place “the pixel segment and signal processing segment are interlayered.” That interprets to a readout pace of three,280 megapixels per second, and video at eight frames per second. A monochrome model of the sensor can bin 4 pixels collectively without delay to shoot even brighter photos and seize “100-megapixel video at 24 frames per second,” Canon says.
It would not sound like this sort of sensor goes to make it into a shopper digicam anytime quickly, however the truth this stage of miniaturization is feasible means sooner or later it might, for the pictures sickos who need it.
