Canon develops a 250 Megapixel sensor.

Columbo · 7 Sep 2015 at 19:43

Interesting breakthrough considering the hurdles presented by recording that amount of data. According to Canon:

Canon said the sensor is sensitive enough to read lettering on the side of an aircraft 18km (11.1 miles) away

Definitely got some interesting uses and though this particular sensor won't be in any consumer level cameras I'd presume the technology and innovation behind it might at some point in the future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34173423

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/canons-250-megapixel-sensor-powers-eagle-eyed-camera/

AHarvey · 7 Sep 2015 at 20:11

I'd imagine we're talking satellite and military for that kind of tech. What lens was being used for that aircraft test?

snips86x · 7 Sep 2015 at 20:13

AHarvey said:
I'd imagine we're talking satellite and military for that kind of tech. What lens was being used for that aircraft test?

Kit lens

Armageus · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:01

AHarvey said:
I'd imagine we're talking satellite and military for that kind of tech. What lens was being used for that aircraft test?

I'd assume satellite and military probably already have better tech than that.

AHarvey · 8 Sep 2015 at 00:29

Armageus said:
I'd assume satellite and military probably already have better tech than that.

I may be wrong but my understanding of satellites is that they use X number of sensors of say 14 megapixels to create a larger sensor array then stick some massive optics on the front.

It seems quite hard (understandably) to find accurate info on it, a quick google finds this from 2012 of a Russian taking a 121 mp photo:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/0...ost-detailed-121-megapixel-image-of-earth-yet

Armageus · 8 Sep 2015 at 18:46

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

1.8 gigapixel that can be equipped on the latest drones.

AHarvey · 9 Sep 2015 at 00:24

Armageus said:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

1.8 gigapixel that can be equipped on the latest drones.

"ARGUS is an advanced camera system that uses hundreds of cellphone cameras in a mosaic to video and auto-track every moving object within a 36 square mile area."

so it uses 100's of mobile camera sensors (anything from 8 megapixels to 41 per sensor) to make a single 1.8 gigapixel image. You could achieve the same thing here using far less of the new Canon sensors.