410 million pixels in a 24×36 sensor!
Canon has just announced a brand new image sensor to the definition of 410 million pixels! Of course, we will have to wait a few years before seeing these kinds of sensors used on a canon hybrid in the EOS R range. At present, their most defined case is the brand new EOS R5 Mark II which has 45 million pixels.
198 times the definition of Full HD!
This new sensor is designed for very specific applications that require ultra high definition, such as surveillance, medicine or the industry in general. It is a CMOS technology sensor in 35 mm format which, with its 410 million pixels, offers images with a definition of 24,792 x 16 704 pixels. This is simply equivalent to 24K, a definition twelve times greater than 8K and 198x greater than Full HD! Its “small” 35 mm format makes it possible to envisage its operation with 24×36 optics, and therefore to send relatively compact devices.
Of course, given the definition, it is also necessary to take into account the time of processing of the information collected on each pixel. Canon therefore opted for a backlit stacked construction, as on the recent Sony A9 III. Thanks to this, he can deliver videos up to 8 images per second: we will therefore wait a little for the 120p slowmotion.
It also incorporates a “pixel binning” function and can therefore treat 4 adjacent pixels as one, to improve sensitivity performance. With this mode, the final images are therefore offered in 100 million pixels (as on a Fujifilm GFX100S II) and at 24 images per second.
