Canon announced that it has created a new 410-megapixel, 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor, “the largest number of pixels ever achieved” in a sensor of its size.
Because of the level of detail the new sensor can capture, Canon expects it to be used by”surveillance, medicine and industry,” where there’s demand for “extreme resolution.” With 410 megapixels, Canon’s sensor has a resolution of 24K, 198 times greater than HD, and 12 times greater than 8K. That makes it simple to crop and then enlarge a photo captured by the sensor without losing detail.
Typically, sky-high megapixel counts are limited to
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