Canon has publicly unveiled its astounding 410-megapixel full-frame sensor for the primary time. The sensor was showcased on the Shanghai Worldwide Photographic Gear and Digital Imaging Exhibition 2025 (also called P&I).
What number of megapixels?
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Canon first introduced its newly developed LI8030SA sensor again in January this yr. It’s a 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor with an unbelievable 410 megapixels (24,592 x 16,704 pixels). That is additionally the biggest variety of pixels ever achieved in a 35mm full-frame sensor. Different excessive pixel rely sensors are medium format or bigger.
With 410 megapixels, the sensor has a super-high decision equal to 24K. That’s 198 instances better than Full HD and practically 50 instances the decision of 4K. It’s additionally 12 instances better than 8K. As well as, there are two variants of the sensor within the LI8030SA sequence. There’s a monochrome model (LI8030SAM) and a shade model (LI8030SAC).
Canon’s 410-megapixel sensor incorporates a back-illuminated stacked formation. The pixel section and sign processing section are inter-layered with a redesigned circuitry sample. In consequence, the sensor can obtain a super-high readout velocity of three,280 megapixels per second.
Can it shoot video?
This super-high readout velocity means the sensor can shoot full-resolution video at 8 frames per second. Moreover, the monochrome model incorporates a “four-pixel binning” perform that just about treats 4 adjoining pixels as one. When this perform is in use, the sensor can seize 100-megapixel video at 24 frames per second. Additionally, this improves sensitivity and makes it potential to seize brighter photographs.
What we expect
Studying the main points of Canon’s new 410-megapixel sensor, many individuals will likely be pondering, “When can I get one?” Sadly, Canon’s 410-megapixel sensor continues to be in growth, so it’s not out there but. Even when it does lastly go into manufacturing, it’s additionally going to be tremendous costly.
Plus, it’s a specialist-use sensor, probably aimed toward surveying or surveilling makes use of in industrial and different industrial processes. Nonetheless, the technological advances made within the growth of this sensor might filter right down to mainstream cameras. That’s a really thrilling prospect.
