Canon has set a new record with its 410MP 35mm camera sensor

The megapixel race isn’t over yet if you ask Canon. Today’s company Announced a 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor With a resolution of 410 megapixels. That means 24,592 x 16,704 pixels and a resolution equivalent to 24K – or 12 times the resolution of 8K and 198 times the resolution of HD.

It’s “the most pixels ever achieved in a 35mm full-frame sensor,” according to Canon, but don’t expect the company to offer it on its consumer-ready digital cameras. It’s designed for surveillance, medicine, and other “industrial applications that require high precision,” and you don’t mind paying a small fortune for it.

Thanks to a “redesigned circuit pattern” and a “newly developed backlit stacked configuration in which the pixel chip and signal processing sector are combined in overlapping layers,” Canon says the sensor has a read speed of “3,280 megapixels per second,” allowing Full images are captured at a resolution of eight frames per second.

Canon will also offer a monochrome version of the sensor with a “four pixel” function that improves low-light sensitivity by treating four nearby pixels as one. Although this reduces the overall resolution, it allows the monochrome version of the sensor to capture 100MP videos at 24fps.

If you want to maximize your megapixel count, you’ll usually need to turn to mid-sized or larger sensors and larger cameras. the Phase 1 XF IQ4 150MPFor example, it can take 150-megapixel photos. But by putting that much resolution into a 35mm sensor that will be compatible with a wide range of lenses already available for full-frame cameras, Canon says it will help “contribute to the miniaturization of photographic equipment.”