We love that: Canon shows a new 120 megapixel sensor!

Guys! Be prepared. Soon you will have to buy ton of hardware to handle the 120 megapixel photos that the new Canon sensor will take!

Dpreview reports:

Its surface area is halfway between APS-C and full-frame, and it appears to be mostly directed at video applications, capable of recording at approximately 60x the resolution of Full HD. The frame rate of read-out for this ultra high-resolution is 9.5fps, and is made possible by reading multiple pixels simultaneously at high speeds – a process Canon is calling ‘parallel signal processing’. The 120 million pixels – of 2.2 µm pixel pitch – are contained on a sensor 29.2mm x 20.2mm in size, yielding pixel dimensions of 13280×9184.

We love that new crazy Megapixel race! Finally we can take 100+ Megapixel shots of our beloved cats sitting on a sofa :)

Olympus promises new super fast MFT lenses!

Image of a Kowa f/1.0 lens on a MFT camera.

Fotosidan had a small talk with Olympus manager Setsuya Kataoka. And he confirmed that they plan to launch super fast Micro Four Thirds lenses in the near future.

Olympus lately filed patents for a couple of f/1.0 and f/1.2 fast primes. Like the 12mm, 13mm and 14mm f/1.0 you see on their official patent description table below:

 

 

Sigma just announced a DP0 Quattro with 14mm lens

The camera is now listed at BHphoto (Click here) and has the following key specs:

29MP Foveon X3 Quattro CMOS Image Sensor
TRUE III Image Processing Engine
14mm f/4 Lens (35mm Equivalent: 21mm)
3.0″ 920k-dot TFT LCD Screen
ISO Range: 100-6400 in 1/3 Steps
RAW Image Capture
Max RAW Resolution of 5424 x 3616
Contrast Detection Autofocus
Manual Focus Ring
P/S/A/M Exposure Control