Canon image sensor may redefine photography

A new Canon image Sensor by camera maker Canon recently announced what is by far the largest CMOS image sensor ever made, measuring 202mm x 205mm (8 inches x 8.1 inches). To put that in perspective, that’s about 40 times the size (by sensor area) of Canon’s next-largest CMOS sensor, the 35mm-sized (36mm x 24mm) sensor in the top-line Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III and EOS 5D Mark II digital SLRs.
It’s hundreds to thousands of times larger than the sensors typically used in point-and-shoot consumer still and video cameras.

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