Canon Announces the Development of New High Sensitivity Sensor

Press Release TOKYO, March 4, 2013—Canon Inc. announced today that the company has successfully developed a high-sensitivity 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor exc

via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2013/03/canon-announces-the-development-of-new-high-sensitivity-sensor/

The newly developed CMOS sensor features pixels measuring 19 microns square in size, which is more than 7.5-times the surface area of the pixels on the CMOS sensor incorporated in Canon’s top-of-the-line EOS-1D X and other digital SLR cameras