The megapixel race isn't over if you ask Canon. Today, the company Announced a new 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor With a resolution of 410 megapixels. It is 24,592 x 16,704 pixels and has a resolution equivalent to 24K – or 12 times the resolution of 8K and 198 times the resolution of HD.
According to Canon, this is the “highest number of pixels ever achieved in a 35mm full-frame sensor”, but the company is not expected to offer it on its consumer-ready digital cameras. It is designed for surveillance, medical and other industrial “applications that demand extreme resolution” and you don't mind paying a little money for it.
Thanks to a “redesigned circuitry pattern” and a newly developed “back-illuminated stacked formation in which pixel segments and signal processing segments are interlayered,” Canon says the sensor has a readout speed of “3,280 megapixels per second.” , which gives full permission. Resolution images captured at eight frames per second.
Canon will also offer a monochrome version of the sensor with a “four-pixel binning” function that improves low light sensitivity by treating four adjacent pixels as one. Although this reduces its overall resolution, it allows the monochromatic version of the sensor to capture 100-megapixel video at 24 frames per second.
If you want to maximize your megapixels, you usually have to turn to medium-format or larger sensors and larger cameras. Step One XF IQ4 150MPFor example, it can capture images at 150-megapixel. But by putting so much resolution into a 35mm sensor that will be compatible with a wide range of lenses already available for full-frame cameras, Canon says it will “contribute to the miniaturization of shooting equipment.”