To be precise the 35mm refers to the width of the complete strip of film. The image size produced is 24mm x 36mm, for a diagonal of 43.2mm. Until now the image size of Canon Digital SLRs has been 16x24mm, hence the requirement to apply a 1.4 multiplier to lens focal length, which causes all sort of problems for users of wide angle lenses. The most significant benefit of this new camera is that it has a full size (IE 24x36)sensor.
As I put in a post above 11Mpixel is not quite there with film SLR quality yet: a "consumer" SLR lens gives about 13 Mpixel equivalent, "Pro" lenses up to 22 Mpixel.
In fact "amateur" quality 35mm lenses work out at about 12Megapixels and pro quality lenses go up to about 22 Megapixels.This assumes the use of a fine grain 100 speed film capable of 100lppmm (Line pairs per mm)or more. There is a good explanation here: http://www.williamsphotographic.com/digital/dig1.h tml
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To be precise the 35mm refers to the width of the complete strip of film. The image size produced is 24mm x 36mm, for a diagonal of 43.2mm. Until now the image size of Canon Digital SLRs has been 16x24mm, hence the requirement to apply a 1.4 multiplier to lens focal length, which causes all sort of problems for users of wide angle lenses. The most significant benefit of this new camera is that it has a full size (IE 24x36)sensor. As I put in a post above 11Mpixel is not quite there with film SLR quality yet: a "consumer" SLR lens gives about 13 Mpixel equivalent, "Pro" lenses up to 22 Mpixel.
In fact "amateur" quality 35mm lenses work out at about 12Megapixels and pro quality lenses go up to about 22 Megapixels.This assumes the use of a fine grain 100 speed film capable of 100lppmm (Line pairs per mm)or more. There is a good explanation here: http://www.williamsphotographic.com/digital/dig1.h tml