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Hard to dislike the 32mm f/1.4 lens (PICS)...

Started May 7, 2019 | Discussions thread
whakapu Senior Member • Posts: 1,051
Re: To: whakapu...

You're probably right about the direction Canon should go with sensors but that doesn't mean Canon will be right about it too. I find the rumour plausible for a couple of reasons. I suspect it's 32.5 total and 30 effective, giving about the same pixel pitch as the 20MP M4/3 sensors. Those perform competitively at a pixel level with Canon's current sensor. If Canon can match or even slightly better that pixel level performance then image level performance would be significantly better. They would of course need some diffraction reduction processing.

The high-res EOS-R is expected to be about 75MP, which is also about the same pixel pitch. It would make some sense for them to design one wafer and cut it into those different slices.

A third reason they might do it is to compete with the D500 as a sports/wildlife camera. They already have a reach advantage from crop factor. If they couple that with a 50% resolution advantage they can blow the D500 away for pixels on subject at distance. If they build a sensor for that purpose they're unlikely to build another one for the rest of the APS-C range, with shrinking sales.

We shall soon see.

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