Canon Japan has just unveiled a new ultra-high-resolution image sensor for the industrial and surveillance market. The APS-H format sensor breaks new ground with a resolution of 250-megapixels… that’s 125x the resolution of Full HD, and 30x the resolution of 4K! This isn’t the first time Canon has released an ultra-high resolution image sensor. The […]
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Since their inception over two decades ago, a digital camera’s worth has often been judged by its sensor specs. Among the fanfare of a launch, the resolution size is usually touted by manufacturers as a benchmark of progress and is heralded as evidence of evolution between the different generations of cameras. digitalrev.com »
2018-02-28 03:00
Sony’s semiconductor division has developed a tiny one megapixel sensor that — at only two millimeters — is said to be the smallest one megapixel sensor yet. At its resolution, the sensor won’t be useful for professional shoots but is instead more likely to propagate photography into wearable technology such as smartwatches. digitalrev.com »
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In 2014, I started my project Applied Metaphysics – Ground Truth on exemplary still life. The goal was to produce very large prints (2 to 9 square meters and more) at a high resolution so that people could look at them very closely.
China’s Chang’e 5 probe landed on the surface of the moon on December 1, 2020. Less than a day later, it has sent back a short video of its descent along with an extremely high-resolution panoramic image of the surface of the moon.
The largest solar telescope in Europe has captured groundbreaking photos showing the fine-structure of the Sun. This photo captured at 430nm shows the details of a sunspot, an area that appears dark on the surface of the Sun because it’s cooler than other parts around it.
Phase One Industrial just unveiled a monstrous 280MP aerial camera system that, according to the company, “redefines large format aerial imaging. ” It’s also described as “affordable,” weighing in at just $455,000 for the full solution.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has just sent back the highest-resolution panorama its ever captured of the Martian surface. Made up of nearly 1,200 individual images stitched together, the 360° panorama weighs in at a whopping 1.
It seems Canon has more than one new EOS R camera in the works, and one of them might arrive in just a couple of months time. According to the most recent leaks, an ‘EOS Rs’ with a 75MP image sensor, dual card slots and several other enticing features could drop as soon as February. […]