Additionally, despite the exceptionally high pixel count, Canon applied its sensor technologies cultivated over many years to realise an architecture adapted for miniaturised pixels that delivers high-sensitivity, low-noise imaging performance.
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The new 250MP APS-H CMOS sensor features a mind boggling resolution of 19,580 x 12,600 pixels, just enough for you to zoom in and count an ant’s feet as it walks through your neighbour’s roof. Its new networked night time camera can produce full color images of dimly lit areas, using a “fast high-magnification lens capable of long-range color”. In addition to snapping highly accurate photos, the 120-megapixels DSRL allows users to print poster-large images.
This new development decreases photography issues such as signal delays and slight discrepancies in timings. The company said Canon Inc.is developing a Cinema EOS System 8K camera and reference display that will support next-gen 8K video. There will have been some very advanced digital signal processors (DSPs) involved in such a feat, but unfortunately Canon isn’t giving any specific details at this point.
The new sensor is an APS-H CMOS sensor, which works out to approximately 29.2 x 20.2mm in size. According to Canon, they are boasting that the megapixel is so high than even the text on the side of a plane captured at a distance of 18km could be made out clearly.
All in all, we’re told that the sensor can record as many as 1.25 billion pixels of visual data per second and can even capture it in video. So in addition to actually helping capture 8K videos and photos, it is also working on technologies and workflows that downgrade 8K to the more standard 4K resolution, as well as 4K cropping processes.
But you shouldn’t get too excited as of yet, as we don’t think the sensor is going to hit shelves anytime soon.
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