Canon Announces the Development of New High Sensitivity Sensor for Video

Think about how much ND filter would be needed to use this in daylight, I do not think we will see this in a form for video production work.
 
Looks like a scientific camera to me... If anyone is jumping for joy right now, it's the astronomy guys with their big telescopes.
 
The press release neither states nor implies that this is a color sensor. And they only talk about scientific and security applications. I'm guessing it's monochrome only.

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Super 35 sensor seems kinda bad for security stuff, and the moon shot has color in it, just like the stars shot.

The funny thing is though that moonlight is just like the sun in terms of shadows/harshness, only difference I guess would be how the sky/horizon looks like, and so people will still have to create a "blue/purple" tint to tell us it is moonlight.
 
I am currently filming some very low light wildlife stuff with the C300. This sensor will be really great for wildlife.
 
I see it as this sensor is really good but not yet ready for Cinema EOS camera. Big step forward for Canon as they keep developing the sensor. I don't think it will be long before they figure out how to get high IQ from it.

Quote from press release.
"The company is looking to such future applications for the new sensor as astronomical and natural observation, support for medical research, and use in surveillance and security equipment. Through the further development of innovative CMOS sensors, Canon aims to expand the world of new imaging expression.
Canon Marketing Japan Inc. will be exhibiting a prototype camera that incorporates the newly developed 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor and sample footage captured with the camera at SECURITY SHOW 2013 (www.shopbiz.jp/en/ss/), which will be held from Tuesday, March 5, to Friday, March 8, at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center in Tokyo, Japan."

 
High1ander said:
Super 35 sensor seems kinda bad for security stuff, and the moon shot has color in it, just like the stars shot.

The funny thing is though that moonlight is just like the sun in terms of shadows/harshness, only difference I guess would be how the sky/horizon looks like, and so people will still have to create a "blue/purple" tint to tell us it is moonlight.
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This is a Full-Frame sensor not s35.
 
he newly developed CMOS sensor features pixels measuring 19 microns square in size, which is more than 7.5-times the surface area of the pixels on the CMOS sensor incorporated in Canon’s top-of-the-line EOS-1D X and other digital SLR cameras
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The 1dx has pixels that are nearly 7um wide, meaning their area is around 48 um2.
7.5 times that means 361 um2, or a 19um-wide pixel.
A 36mm-wide sensor with 1920x1080 resolution has 18.75nm-wide pixels.
And a marketing guy wrote that sentence above (because it's wrong, 19um is the width, not the area).
 
good to spot those incoming meteorites before we go like the dinosaurs

meteorite-crash-in-russia-filmed-by-a-dash-cam.gif
 
Canon has developed a 35mm full-frame CMOS image sensor designed for low-light video capture. The 16:9 sensor features a 1920x1080 pixel array, meaning each pixel measures a huge 19 microns along each edge - 7.5 times larger than the ones in the EOS-1D X. The large pixels and low readout-noise circuitry allow the sensor to capture light around 10 times less bright than current CCDs used for astronomy. The sensor will first be shown in public at a security show in Japan. Other applications the company is looking into are astronomy and medical research.
Interestingly, the 36 x 20mm sensor's use of 19μm pixels means it creates its video footage from a 1920 x 1080 array. This means it has only one photosite per output pixel, so won't offer the same color resolution as Canon's EOS C300 professional video camera, which has four capture pixels (a Red, Green, Blue, Green quartet) per output pixel
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http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/0...sensitivity-full-frame-CMOS-sensor-for-videos
 
Cool tech, but I'm dreading the crop factor confusion since Canon appears to be using the 35mm still/photography dimensions (8 perfs, top/bottom, ~36mm wide) but targeting this imaging sensor for use in a film/video camera (4 perfs, left/right, ~24mm wide).
 
Nothing new for cinema shooters right now, but cool tech that will probably work it's way into Canon production lines for stuff besides science/security eventually.
 
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