Canon creates 120 megapixel sensor

[prodigy2k7]

I also think its possible this sensor is just for science, to learn new things, overcome new obstacles, and see if they can do it kind of thing. Im sure they have learned many things along the way that will help produce smaller MP chips in the near future. Again, im no expert but thats what it sounds like...

 

[shaunly]

so in 2007, 50MP was already available and we still haven't seen anything more than 24MP now, when is 120MP will ever be available or even practical.

 

[cfusionpm]

^Practical? Never. This is like the Concord or the Bugatti Veyron: built as a technical marvel just because they can.

 

[pharmakon]

^Practical? Never. This is like the Concord or the Bugatti Veyron: built as a technical marvel just because they can.

... or that Gottlieb Daimler and his silly motorized buggy... I mean really, GET A HORSE MAN!!!

 

[pharmakon]

oh, and digital will never replace film.

 

[djacobox372]

I wonder how high the resolution actually is. Megapixel count is not everything.

I have a nikon 2.7 megapixel d1h that has a higher resolution then my cheap 6 megapixel point and shoot.

 

[prodigy2k7]

I wonder how high the resolution actually is. Megapixel count is not everything.

I have a nikon 2.7 megapixel d1h that has a higher resolution then my cheap 6 megapixel point and shoot.

what?:scratch:

 

[Garbz]

^Practical? Never. This is like the Concord or the Bugatti Veyron: built as a technical marvel just because they can.

Bad analogy. The Bugatti Veyron is frigging fast, whereas a sensor with 120mpx in a APS-H sized form factor is utterly pointless.

Not the least because your diffraction limit will be at f/1.6 So not a single canon zoom lens has the power to resolve more than this sensor, not now and not ever until the fundamental laws of nature are broken. That's not even beginning to take into account manufacturing a lens that sharp.

At least a Bugatti will get you laid, whereas a 120mpx camera will likely scare away potential mates due to the insane nerdyness.

 

[Mike_E]

If they wanted to impress me, they'd come out with a printer with that kind of resolution.

:/

 

[haring]

Just imagine! Soon we will deliver 120 megapixel wedding photos to clients....

 

[inTempus]

...which leaves the question, "why"?

 

[jake337]

maybe for the next gen hubble or something.like someone else said, Its more than likely they did it just to do it. Learning along the way to develop cameras for us the consumer. maybe they're making something similar to the leica m9.

 

[inTempus]

maybe for the next gen hubble or something.like someone else said, Its more than likely they did it just to do it. Learning along the way to develop cameras for us the consumer. maybe they're making something similar to the leica m9.

Canon doesn't need to learn how to make 120mp sensors, they need an experimental 24mp sensor that shoots clean low noise images at ISO 102,400. Or perhaps a 24mp sensor with 3x's the dynamic range of the current generation sensors.

 

[Derrel]

^Practical? Never. This is like the Concord or the Bugatti Veyron: built as a technical marvel just because they can.

Bad analogy. The Bugatti Veyron is frigging fast, whereas a sensor with 120mpx in a APS-H sized form factor is utterly pointless.

Not the least because your diffraction limit will be at f/1.6 So not a single canon zoom lens has the power to resolve more than this sensor, not now and not ever until the fundamental laws of nature are broken. That's not even beginning to take into account manufacturing a lens that sharp.

At least a Bugatti will get you laid, whereas a 120mpx camera will likely scare away potential mates due to the insane nerdyness.

If it says Canon on the front of the camera/photocopier/printer, there will be buyers. It'll sell in Indiana.

 

[Garbz]

maybe for the next gen hubble or something.

Exactly the opposite. The hubble is an instrument which requires the absolute lowest noise taking exposures of months at a time. Light capturing ability is the king here, not resolution. Up there making a panorama is trivial so resolution is limited by optics, not sensors.