Canon has developed a sensor for shooting FullHD video, capable of shooting almost in complete darkness

The full-size 35-mm CMOS-matrix is ​​designed exclusively for recording video. Due to this, it is not very many pixels, and their size is much larger than in the Full-Frame sensor of the camera. Aspect ratio 16: 9, so, strictly speaking, this is not a standard 35mm, but its area allows you to use lenses with Canon EF bayonet.



When creating the sensor, new noise reduction technologies were used. This made it possible to achieve outstanding results - a camera with such a sensor can shoot fairly high-quality color video with illumination of 0.01 - 0.05 lux.

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A camera with such a sensor is capable of clearly and in color photographing a person’s face, illuminated by a glow of a glowing incense stick. The image taken on a moonlit night looks like it was taken during the day. A person with the naked eye is able to see stars in the night sky up to 6 stellar magnitudes , and with the help of a new sensor you can shoot stars of up to 8.5.



Judging by the fact that the prototype of the camera with a new sensor will be presented at the Security Show 2013 exhibition, which takes place in Tokyo from March 5 to March 8, Canon assumes to use the new supersensitive sensor primarily in video surveillance systems. In addition to them, in a company press release, applications are mentioned in the field of astronomy and medicine.



Unfortunately, the video with a demonstration of its capabilities has so far been published only in low resolution, so it is difficult to assess the potential of the novelty for artistic video. If the image is high enough, you can shoot scenes with very dim light sources, such as candles, without additional lighting and very expensive super-powerful lenses such as Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f / 0.7 , created by NASA for shooting the back of the Moon.







Source - Canon .