Canon unveils 120 megapixel sensor

[Octane]

Now that I've stopped dribbling and drooling...

http://www.canon.com/news/2010/aug24e.html

Enjoy.

H

[AdrianF]

When they put them into cameras I'll have 2.

Adrian

[DavidU]

Whoh! Thats going to chew up some disk space !

[multiweb]

It's good to see the sensor surface is still not too big so you wouldn't need a very wide corrected imaging circle to be able to use one of these.

[spearo]

I was just wondering yesterday when we hear of some amazing leap in megapixels and here it is!
Wow!

drool indeed
frank

[ballaratdragons]

Fantastic resolution, but I'm not too sure about its application for DSO astro work.

With such small pixels (well depth) I can see that the pixels hit with light will fill and overflow very quickly making long exposure photography limited in length.
Very hard to use anti-blooming on pixels so small.

Thoughts?

[Matt Wastell]

:love::love::love::love::love:

[Octane]

This is just the APS-H sensor. If you extrapolate the specification, the full frame sensor would be 160 megapixels.

H

[DavidTrap]

Impressive technology, but wouldn't this just be massive oversampling for astro-work? Even for terrestrial photography, can you "really" see an improvement beyond 20megapixels??

DT

[Octane]

David,

It would mean I could print billboards. :eyepop:

H

[telemarker]

Ha, with a printer the size of a house!:P

[renormalised]

Just imagine turning up at the Malin's and saying "Well guys, here's me wee piccie. Where can I hang it??":):P

[Bassnut]

The pixels are 2.2 um. With a proper 3m FL the image scale is 0.15 arc/secs, youd be hard pressed to tell the diff compared to a 16800 16meg (9um) chip, which is much bigger and 0.62 arc/secs.