http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/ Engadget Comments for Canon crams 50 megapixels into a CMOS prototype http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Jun 4th 2007 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Jun 4th 2007 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Jun 4th 2007 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Jun 5th 2007 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/
This sensor, or the children of it, will appear in a 1D model, not a xxD or an xxxD model with the smaller sensor.]]>Jun 4th 2007 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Jun 4th 2007 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Jun 5th 2007 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Anyway--this bodes well for their next-gen 1Ds Mark III. I wonder what kind of lenses they're working on in conjunction with this new chip because it's gotta be some sweet glass!]]>Jun 4th 2007 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Jun 4th 2007 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/
Personally, for digital photography, I'd rather see an emphasis on dynamic range, like what Fuji is doing. Currently, that's a digicam's biggest problem, IMO.]]>Jun 4th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/
They should put these suckers all over the Mars rover, even if it takes a month to send back a single picture.

]]>Jun 4th 2007 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/
However, having all of those superfluous pixels with a underpowered lens may be useful for noise reduction; if a *single* pixel is distinctly different from its neighbors, it must be noisy,making noise detection that much easier for the camera.]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/High res black & white film (microfilm emulsion, single digit ISO speed) has reached much higher resolution with good fixed focal length lenses.
]]>Jun 4th 2007 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/The resolution values given by the manufactures were measured with contact prints having a line pattern scratched in a glass. It was never possible to reach these values in real live photography.
In real live you can't go much further then 80 line pairs per mm (lp/mm). However some high end lenses reach 90 lp/mm (around 30MP).

There is a very nice (but german) articel about his topic at http://sprec000.lima-city.de/Digicam4.html]]>Jun 17th 2007 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/
there are already rumours that canon is doing a 21Mp 1Dsmk3 while nikon D3x is 24Mp. ]]>Jun 5th 2007 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/
Again, a newb question, but just curious. Bigger is always better when it comes to gathering light and especially when you are trying to come anywhere near the qaulity you would get with an analog representation of the image rather then a digital one.]]>Jun 12th 2007 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/Jun 7th 2007 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.advancedimagingpro.com/article/printer.jsp?id=4133]]>Jun 13th 2007 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/canon-crams-50-megapixels-into-a-cmos-prototype/
Canon has the technology to do 100 megapixels, according to what Westfall said, but who would want to handle all that data? My 1Ds Mark II at work produces 96 meg 16 bit tif files. And that's 16.7 megaixels. Who would want to pay for storage of 50 or 100 megapixel images? Not my employer! I'm thinking of getting a 10.2 megapixel 1D Mark III for a backup camera next year. Next year for two reasons. Captial purchase budget, and the AF problems that are still on-going with that camera. But for most things I photograph, wiht my photos rarely going over 30x40 inces in print, the 16.7 megapixels is just fine. Even one photo they blew up to about five feet wide, it held up really nicely. And that was a low-light shot hand-held at about 1/60 second!]]>Jul 29th 2007 12:35PM