Interesting development news crossed our desk this morning from the Japanese headquarters of camera giant Canon. The company says it has developed a new 35mm full-frame CMOS image sensor intended specifically for video capture. If you fancy shooting ambient-light video under the stars, prepare to control your excitement.
With even Full HD video equating to just 2.1 megapixels, the relatively low resolution allows an extremely generous 19 micron pixel size, which is around 7.5 times the size of the pixels in the EOS-1D X. The pixel structure and readout…
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via Imaging Resource News Page http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/03/04/by-the-light-of-the-silvery-moon-canons-new-full-frame-sensor-gets-video