Canon Develops World's Largest CMOS Sensor

[epsiloneri]

Hm, let me make a guess... Should that be 640,000 maybe? (6400 * 100) :

It doesn't work that way. The previous post is correct.

Of course it works that way. Both are correct. And btw, log2(100) = 6.639 stops. But note that this doesn't make the large sensor more sensitive (as in more signal per photon).

 

[epsiloneri]

Actually, lenses from 8x10 view cameras would work quite nicely on that. They aren't as huge as you might think...of course, they aren't point and shoot lenses either :

Interesting. It seems to me that sensors get cheaper faster than lenses, so I predict that we at some point will see inexpensive medium format camera systems that produce the same or better IQ as much more expensive FF/APS systems, with their only drawback that they are bulkier

 

[AprilForever]

Digital Crown Graphic, here we come!!! 8)

 

[Jaszek]

BTW, here's another shot of them side by side


Canon Expo by Jaszek PL, on Flickr

 

[epsiloneri]

BTW, here's another shot of them side by side

Crazy big! Thanks for the pic. Hope you're having fun at the expo.

 

[Jaszek]

It was pretty fun there. I have some shots on my flickr if you want to see. CLICKY!!!

 

[dr croubie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15242383 When i first saw it I thought maybe they'd actually put this sensor to use, the title sucked me into reading by claiming a "1-Gigapixel CCD".
But then it's only later in the story you find out that it's 106 x 8 Megapixel Medium Format sensors (60x45mm).
Took them 5 years to make them all.
They could just as easily have bought a few Phase One IQ-180 80 Megapixel Backs off the shelf, and made an 8-Gigapixel camera in a fraction of the time...