I'm genuinely curious...
For the people who are saying they're waiting for a higher MP camera than the R5, what do you need more resolution for? Seriously?
45 MP is WAY more than enough for almost anything. And if you really needed it you'd probably already be shooting on a Hasselblad.
What real world scenario do you need 90 when 45 won't work?
We do satellite imaging ourselves and even 100+ megapixels is too small!
The head office lab up here in Vancouver, Canada got so fed up with Dalsa, Sony, Canon, On, etc not being able to produce to our specifications, that they bought out an entire CPU/RAM production plant and brought CMOS, GaN and GaAs manufacturing in-house with some of the largest single slice silicon substrate manufacturing systems in the world (i.e. over 400mm per side!).
The LARGEST single-slice CMOS imager we have built yet is 128k by 128k pixels (131,072 by 131,072 pixels!) at 64 bits per RGBA/YCbCrA pixel depth (about 17.18 Gigapixels at about 3 microns per photosite) which is installed on a super-high-flyer aerospace-imaging-specific SSTO platform. Works Great and we even built a 128k by 128k resolution 16-bits per channel RGB colour laser projector system to see the images!
SO LOTS of people want really high resolution and even 100 megapixel IS NOT ENOUGH resolution for many tasks!
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AND for the kicker, we're doing RnD on 2 metre by 2 metre single silicon wafer production (2000mm by 2000mm with NO cracks, occlusions or other other imperfections -- Substrate is mounted to super-strong/super-stable with-same-thermal expansion rate ceramic base for support) so we can get 128k by 128k resolution at MUCH HIGHER dynamic range by having the photosites be a tad over 15 microns in size! That will be installed on MULTIPLE polar orbit and equatorial orbit ground-pointing AND deep space imaging satellites which we will be launching straight from OUR IN-HOUSE BUILT SSTO systems!
Now THAT is the coolest tech of all!
TRY AND BEAT THAT LMCO AND RAYTHEON !!!!!!
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