LONDON: The camera has an EOS body and EF lens compatibility — but Canon has no plans to sell it
Canon is developing a digital DSLR camera with a sensor that boasts a resolution of about 120 megapixels.
That’s more than double the resolution of Canon’s 50.6-megapixel EOS 5DS and 5DS R models, which were announced in February as having world’s highest resolution for digital DSLR 35mm full-frame sensors.
oThe super-dense CMOS sensor in the new prototype shooter is in the APS-H format and the camera would work with 60 of the 96 lenses in Canon’s EF lineup.
The sensor produces eye-popping images that can be printed as full-size posters, said Canon, which announced Monday that it has developed a 250-megapixel prototype sensor for extreme-resolution imaging.
The 120-megapixel camera outputs RAW image files with a data size of 232MB, nearly four times as big as the 60.5MB RAW files shot by the 5DS.
In 2010, Canon produced a 120-megapixel CMOS sensor as a technical challenge and it was never commercialized. Though it released a generic image of an EOS DSLR for the latest prototype camera, there are no immediate plans to commercialize it either.
“This camera was produced as an example of Canon’s high-definition imaging capabilities,” spokesman Richard Berger said via email.
The new sensor can be considered an evolution of the 2010 one but it uses the latest fabrication technologies, he added.
