Canon has publicly unveiled its astounding 410-megapixel full-frame sensor for the primary time. The sensor was showcased on the Shanghai Worldwide Photographic Gear and Digital Imaging Exhibition 2025 (also referred to as P&I).
What number of megapixels?
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Canon first introduced its newly developed LI8030SA sensor again in January this 12 months. It’s a 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor with an unimaginable 410 megapixels (24,592 x 16,704 pixels). That is additionally the biggest variety of pixels ever achieved in a 35mm full-frame sensor. Different excessive pixel rely sensors are medium format or bigger.
With 410 megapixels, the sensor has a super-high decision equal to 24K. That’s 198 instances better than Full HD and practically 50 instances the decision of 4K. It’s additionally 12 instances better than 8K. As well as, there are two variants of the sensor within the LI8030SA sequence. There’s a monochrome model (LI8030SAM) and a colour model (LI8030SAC).
Canon’s 410-megapixel sensor incorporates a back-illuminated stacked formation. The pixel phase and sign processing phase are inter-layered with a redesigned circuitry sample. In consequence, the sensor can obtain a super-high readout pace of three,280 megapixels per second.
Can it shoot video?
This super-high readout pace means the sensor can shoot full-resolution video at 8 frames per second. Moreover, the monochrome model incorporates a “four-pixel binning” operate that nearly treats 4 adjoining pixels as one. When this operate is in use, the sensor can seize 100-megapixel video at 24 frames per second. Additionally, this improves sensitivity and makes it attainable to seize brighter photos.
What we predict
Studying the small print of Canon’s new 410-megapixel sensor, many individuals might be considering, “When can I get one?” Sadly, Canon’s 410-megapixel sensor continues to be in improvement, so it’s not obtainable but. Even when it does lastly go into manufacturing, it’s additionally going to be tremendous costly.
Plus, it’s a specialist-use sensor, almost certainly aimed toward surveying or surveilling makes use of in industrial and different business processes. Nonetheless, the technological advances made within the improvement of this sensor could filter right down to mainstream cameras. That’s a really thrilling prospect.
