1D-Mark IV - Beyond the gapless sensor

Is it possible that the 1D Mark IV will incorporate a sensor in which the pixels will overlap by 2-3%? This will both eliminate the gap as well as provide a level of pixo-redundancy.

That would make the IQ incredible!

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Right now, the photosensitive portion of the pixel only takes up a portion of each cell... how would overlapping work exactly?

Camera Dog said:

Is it possible that the 1D Mark IV will incorporate a sensor in which
the pixels will overlap by 2-3%? This will both eliminate the gap as
well as provide a level of pixo-redundancy.

That would make the IQ incredible!

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Certified Professional Master Photographer, Level 3.
Certified Expert on 30 D and on Zoom L Lenses
Working on L Prime Certification

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Sorry but its physically impossible.

Imagine a matrix of buckets to catch rain - how would you arrange them to overlap - what you want would require the quivalent of more than 1 bucket collecting some of the same raindrops (read photons for camera sensor).

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Martin Wilson
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Martin Wilson said:

Sorry but its physically impossible.

Imagine a matrix of buckets to catch rain - how would you arrange
them to overlap - what you want would require the quivalent of more
than 1 bucket collecting some of the same raindrops (read photons for
camera sensor).

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Martin Wilson
Nottingham, England

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Something like the Foveon/Sigma sensor, I'd say, but overlapping, not stacked. In fact, I'd expect Canon to come out with a Foveon-type sensor at some point, if they can overcome patent issues. I heard a rumor several years ago that they were working on one. Take 3 21mp sensors, stack them and you'd have 63 m photosites, all happily collecting photons, 21m red, 21m green and 21m blue.
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This sounds to me more like gaussian blur, which could be done software postprocess. This is what most phorographers would like not to see, and prefer rather to have razor sharp edges between pixels, than blurred 100% crop pictures.