We have received more information and some confirmation on the sensor size of the V1 powershot. This is a newly developed sensor from Canon, and it certainly appears to be different as its a size that no one has done before. The rumour details this as slightly larger than an m43’s sensor, and it’s expected to be 1.4″ in size. For reference, a Micro 43 sensor has a size of around 1.35″.
It’s been interesting how the sensor size information has slowly evolved. It does appear to be an m43 “ish” size, as we were originally told.
Let’s get into the brain-aching part you have all been anticipating.
First, we don’t know if this sensor will be in 4:3 or 3:2 format, so the sensor’s physical size could be slightly different. For those unaware, 1″ refers to the sensor’s diagonal, and 1″ usually is around 16mm in diagonal. A rabbit hole of historical reference to this dates back to the dawn of time. Therefore, a 1.4″ sensor should be around 22mm diagonal or 1.4 times that of a 1″ sensor. Yes, that hurts my head too.
So, the two 1″ sensor sizes are either 17.6 x 13.2mm for a 4:3 ratio or 18.3 x 12.2mm for a 3:2 ratio sensor size.
Here’s roughly how the sensors would look as compared to each other.
We feel pretty confident that this is close. Our source, who is rarely wrong, said it was slightly larger than m4/3, and we have received further confirmation of 1.4″ – which is, yes, a little larger than an m4/3 sensor.
Edit:
We received a note from one of our sources, who stated we were .1mm out on the 18.3 x 12.2mm measurement size by .1mm in each dimension. He didn’t say if it was smaller or larger, though. But we now know it’s a 3:2 aspect ratio sensor.
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Time to sell my Olympus E-PL with its atrocious ergonomics and menu!
So, when time comes to get a second small camera, I'll (generally speaking "we`ll") have great options :)
But with the 20mm F1.4 patent and this camera it already sounds like the couple of years are going to be expensive, especially since I do have plans to upgrade some other lenses and equipment :ROFLMAO:
Are there FF sensor in a such a small body possible? I think had such a camera once...
CR guy even listed the reasons and concerns of doing so...
Well.. I guess the internet couldn't.
Thats what I get for not properly reading through the text. Shame on me
All I want from this line is good autofocus. The G7X III is great for photos but the RX100 VII blows it out of the water in video and autofocus. I use the RX100 VII as my compact camera and the EVF, flash and zoom make it great for almost everything, but I can't stand the menus.
If I could make a wish:
Give me camera like the G7X MkIII, 1" sensor, latest sensor design, DPAF and AF like in the lower end bodies (R50), and the same lens, (or better, but 24-100 mm FF eq) as the Mk III has.
16-50mm (35mm Equivalent) is too short for me. If it was an APS-C sensor, than that would make me rethink.
I hope the real product is similar!
There have been patents with fixed lens designs in the past, they aren't very common though. What does come about more often is compact lens optical designs. Though not many since they stopped with the development. I would expect to start seeing some over the next bunch of months.
Also I hope Canon doesn't make the same mistake like Panasonic with the ZS99 and doesn't give us a camera with mediocre sensor and lens. Keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be a real G7X successor.