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Think medium format CMOS sensors are big? Check out[*] what Canon's largest sensor looks like when placed next to a DSLR camera (an EOS Rebel T3i/600D).
[...] Canon first unveiled its humongous, ultra-sensitive, ultra-resolution CMOS sensor back in August 2010, saying that it would open new doors in various academic and industrial fields.
"A certain level of light is required when shooting with a digital camera or camcorder, and without it, images cannot be captured due to insufficient sensitivity," Canon writes. "In the pursuit of further improving the sensitivity of imaging elements, Canon has embraced the challenge of achieving higher levels of sensitivity and larger element sizes while maintaining high-speed readout performance, and has succeeded in developing the world's largest class of CMOS image sensor measuring approximately 20 cm square."
[*] Image location: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2018/06/sensorsizecompare-800x547.jpg
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 20 2018, @09:34PM (2 children)
Hunting lions with a 20cm sensor means: get very close to the lion, or carry a lens as big as a can(n)on, or put up with some slight vignetting.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 20 2018, @09:43PM
That's why the company is called Cannon, right? Personally, I prefer to be some distance from the lions when filming, especially with a 100kg camera+lens to maneuver, so a reflector telephoto isn't a bad thing (and, yeah, reflector lenses do have some funky flare effects...)
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:53PM
I've photographed lions (in the wild). During the daytime, they mostly sleep and if you poke them with a stick, they might be bothered enough to roll over and yawn. The closest 'I've ever been to one (in an open land rover) is about half a meter (have video, but no photographs of that encounter).