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Canon Develops 8 X 8 Inch Digital CMOS Sensor

Posted by timothy on from the you'lll-need-deep-pockets dept.

dh003i writes "Canon has developed a 8 x 8 inch CMOS digital sensor. It will be able to capture an image with 1/100th the light intensity required by a DSLR and will be able to record video at 60 fps in lighting half the intensity of moonlight. There are already many excellent quality lenses designed to cover 8 x 10 inches, although Canon may develop some of their own designed specifically for their requirements."

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  1. Coming soon? by Bryansix · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article did not explain if this would be incorporated into a camera anytime soon. Also I wonder how it compares to the Hasselblad digital backs and cameras. http://www.hasselbladusa.com/

    1. Re:Coming soon? by blhack · · Score: 3, Informative

      What you're saying is absolutely insane, I'm sorry.

      The sensor in my copier costs, what, $10? Maybe?

      You're talking about replacing that with something that would likely cost over $100,000 as well as well as the optics to support it.

      The sensor in a fax machine and the sensor in a camera are *totally* different things.

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    2. Re:Coming soon? by shawb · · Score: 5, Informative

      Bigger CCD does not necessarily mean higher pixel counts. In this application it means that each pixel will receive more photons per exposure, allowing for much better low light photography (I.E. less grainy.) Making larger CCDs previously meant higher latency (and therefore more motion blur or related distortion, in addition to lower framerate in video applications) due to limits in the speed of transfer of electrons in the medium. The innovative bit here is that Canon apparently came up with a circuit design that eliminates this latency.

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  2. Re:no resolution by Bryansix · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, they use software to merge the photos. Otherwise the photos would suck.

  3. Re:back to old style camera sizes? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Informative

    For architectural photography, and many landscapes, nothing, but nothing, beats a view camera. If you take a picture of a building with a standard DSLR, the picture will look like a pyramid, because the film plane was at an angle to the building. With a view cameras, with swings and tilts, you can have the lens and film plane parallel to the walls of the building, giving you a much more natural look.

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  4. Re:no resolution by shams42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ahem. Remember that you have to account for the Bayseian Filter in front of the sensor.

    It's not a "Bayseian filter" [sic], it's a Bayer matrix.

  5. Re:back to old style camera sizes? by LordKronos · · Score: 4, Informative

    Last time I looked, which waasn't that long ago, there were two DSLR tilt-shift lenses on the market, they cost about $3,000, and the coverage they had was unimpressive.

    It must have been a quite a LONG time ago, because Canon has had 3 tilt-shift lenses available for years. The were released in 1991, and are still available today. A few years ago they added a 4th lens to the batch (and updated one of the old models with a
    new version). So your choices are:

    17mm f/4
    24mm f/3.5
    45mm f/2.8
    90mm f/2.8

    Also, when I checked a few years ago, the cheapest one was under $1500. Today they range from $1200 to $2200.