120MP sensor anyone?

Just goes to show how much the consumer really is getting ripped off if the technology is that far ahead.
However in saying that it does not mean it will ever be put into production.
South Koreans recently did a Broadband test over a 50 mile cable and achieved a speed the equivalent of 10,000 dvd movie downloads per second.
I am curious as to the cost of the R and D for such a project was.
 
I think my computer might struggle when converting a RAW 120 MP file out of light room.
 
i think mine would and its rather powerful to say the least!
 
Great I'll take one, but I'll also need a 500TB hard drive or two and a octo core processor to go with it to deal with the approx' 140-150MB raw file size
 
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CraigF said:
Just goes to show how much the consumer really is getting ripped off if the technology is that far ahead.
However in saying that it does not mean it will ever be put into production.

I am curious as to the cost of the R and D for such a project was.
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I think your second question suggests that the work from developing it will be put into production chips.

For no other reason than they will want to recoop the costs.
 
The processors are holding back sensors like this. You'd be talking about 1 frame per 5 minutes rather than 10 frames per second...

DB
 
If this is their new 1D series 1.3crop sensor, heck the 1DS full frame version is going to be over 150 mega pixels???? I wonder what the signal to noise ratio is like??;)
 
CraigF said:
Just goes to show how much the consumer really is getting ripped off if the technology is that far ahead.
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Technology is way ahead of what Canon have released, they release information like this as a teaser, the "real" technology they are working on will be closely gaurded.
I work for a South Korean medical device company, we make our own sensors for use in CT scanners, I get chased round the factory going were I shouldn't, I just shrug and claim I don't understand the language, some pretty cool stuff though:eek:

There are all manner of new ideas, Google "Temporal Pixel Multiplexing" that sounds pretty cool, even with todays sensor capabilities.

Interesting times ahead....

Paul
 
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Isnt that just overkill, you couldnt take advantage of that in normal life could you? Surely its only needed for printing HUGE pictures.
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You've missed the point mate :)

If you have a good quality wide angle you won't need another lens - just crop into it to 'make' a 500 mm :D

DD
 
I can get nearly that out of 1 6x7 format frame of film. Then there is large format...

I hear the point though about us all getting ripped off. Was not long ago I read about canon having a working 50MP FF sensor. This kind of thing makes that look silly by comparison. Imagine now though, with that sort of pixel density available, what RED and similar companies will be able to do with their 617 (etc) format sensors.
 
All a bit pointless for the average photographer.
 
They should work on making sensors cheaper to manufacture, not making silly megapixel sensors...

If anyone is bored and gets turned on by sensor technology this is for you It makes you understand why DSLR's are expensive.
 
the only way the price will drop is if they can manufacture on a large enough scale and then sell them !
 
I suspect that this will be more appealing to the scientific community as I know two people wanting 150mp sensors!

I emailed one of them and they emailed back saying they where following it up and it could fit directly into there system!

I suspect though being a CMOS sesnor it will be alot tricker to work with compared to a CCD.

Stuart
 
I'd much rather they spent time trying to get me another stop or two of dynamic range than creating ridiculous levels of megapixels.
 
Foggy said:
I'd much rather they spent time trying to get me another stop or two of dynamic range than creating ridiculous levels of megapixels.
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Totally mate. That and lower base ISO's for landscape photographers etc.

I don't want ISO (10)^googleplex, I want ISO 6 dammit!
 
Nothing special. Think how many pixels are currently being crammed onto tiny P&S sensors (14MP seems normal these days) and then multiply that by the extra area of an APS-H sensor. Canon get the kudos for being the ones to actually bother producing such a sensor. What IS impressive though is the development work done on the data transfer process - the bit where you get all that data off the sensor in reasonable time. That's the bit to be excited about but the nature of the press release says it all - people still only care about the number of megapixels.
 
Liam said:
They should work on making sensors cheaper to manufacture, not making silly megapixel sensors...
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Sensor price is much to do with wafer yield, namely how many acceptable sensors they can get from a single wafer. The pixel density and sensor size is a direct challenge to this. If they can refine the manufacturing process to such a degree that they make such a dense sensor viable, it will surely have a ripple down effect making consumer size sensors cheaper to make.

The question is, will they pass on the savings to the consumer (cheaper CF for example) or just increase their profit margin?
 
You would think with that amount of pixels available on a sensor you could choose to have either very high pixel count at base ISO or say a quarter of the pixel dinsity used and high ISO performance as and when needed :shrug:
 
mustanir said:
Nothing special. Think how many pixels are currently being crammed onto tiny P&S sensors (14MP seems normal these days) and then multiply that by the extra area of an APS-H sensor. Canon get the kudos for being the ones to actually bother producing such a sensor. What IS impressive though is the development work done on the data transfer process - the bit where you get all that data off the sensor in reasonable time. That's the bit to be excited about but the nature of the press release says it all - people still only care about the number of megapixels.
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I exspect you find it is a "rolling shutter" as a CMOS can take a reading from each pixel so it will be reading the value from one register while its neibour is still exsposing,

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You would think with that amount of pixels available on a sensor you could choose to have either very high pixel count at base ISO or say a quarter of the pixel dinsity used and high ISO performance as and when needed :shrug:
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Pixel binning isn't new, however i THINK you could do the same thing in post prossessing and achive the same noise levels.
 
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