New Delhi: Japanese camera giant Canon has set another world record for developing a mind-boggling 250 megapixel image sensor.
The APS-H-size CMOS sensor with 19,500 x 12,600 pixels resolution offers the world’s highest pixel count for its size.
Canon says the sensor when installed in a camera is capable to capture images enabling the distinguishing of lettering on the side of an airplane flying at a distance of approximately 18 km from the shooting location.
The APS-H sensor is bigger than APS-C but smaller than full-frame and is used primarily in Canon’s EOS-1D line of DSLRs.
The new CMOS sensor achieves an ultra-high readout speed of 1.25 billion pixels per second despite its exceptionally high pixel count. This has been made possible through circuit miniaturization and enhanced signal-processing technology.
It further enables capturing of ultra-high-pixel-count video at a speed of five frames per second. The resolution achieved in videos shot with the new sensor is approximately 125 times that of Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) and approximately 30 times that of 4K (3,840 x 2,160 pixels) video.
You might be hopeful about seeing the sensor landing soon in consumer DSLRs, but Canon is considering its application in specialised surveillance and crime prevention tools, ultra-high-resolution measuring instruments and other industrial equipment, and the field of visual expression.
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