Sony is preparing a new medium format sensors. permits 100 and 150 Mn, both color and black and white versions.
The fact that Sony competes very well on the sensor market, everyone knows. As everybody knows, it mogul in the industry for mobile imaging sensors – even Galaxy S8 available in versions with a sensor from Sony. As photo lovers know that in the high-format digital photography has no equal. And what happens in the medium-size category?
Yes, Sony is also not want to give any or company. 100 megapixel sensor IMX211 is located in one of the versions of the XF cameras PhaseOne, it is an excellent indicator, but we have become known plans for the coming years. It turned out that the company has decided to launch a sensor for medium format cameras with even higher resolution 150 megapixels.
Publication information coincided with the April Fools, therefore, it was seen a part of Internet users as a joke. The truth is, that Sony actually has an appropriate plan for the production of new sensors, it should be noted that he revealed them at the CeBit exhibition, when he presented 100 Mn sensors.
Time to regular Sony sensors:
- black and white IMX211 / BSI / 53,7 x 40,4 mm / 100 Mn / 2017;
- color IMX461 / BSI / 43,8 x 32,9 mm / 100 Mn / 2018;
- color IMX411 / BSI / 53,7 x 40,4 mm / 150 Mn / 2018;
- black and white IMX411 / BSI / 53,7 x 40,4 mm / 150 Mn / 2018.
High resolution paired with appropriate optics is, of course, the, it is never too much. Do not believe me – see photos Bentley Flying Spur. Yes, common sense should always prevail, and the future in which users can view the photos on your computer with a resolution 150 MP is approaching by leaps and bounds.
