<story><title>Canon&apos;s 120MP Camera Sensor</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2018/03/29/this-is-the-power-of-canons-120mp-camera-sensor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galago</author><text>A lot of cameras are sticking at 24MP because that&amp;#x27;s where a lot of lenses start to reach a weak point. Also, file size to utility becomes a consideration because most people expect cloud&amp;#x2F;sharing. I feel like 100+MP is going to be an enthusiast thing for a long time. It seems a lot like car speeds. Every car sold today can go over 100 miles per hour. Some people still care about how fast their car can go, but most don&amp;#x27;t really think about it or even know their car&amp;#x27;s top speed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dingaling</author><text>I have a couple of photography colleagues who use the 50MP Canon 5Ds.  The detail they gather is astounding, more than my 21.1MP can grab even with a teleconvertor on the lens.  So they can shoot with shorter focal lengths, which means less weight and better stabilisation.&lt;p&gt;They can then go into post-processing and &amp;quot;crop the hell outta it&amp;quot; and still end up with more detail than my image.&lt;p&gt;It is a cliché but high-density sensors really are a &amp;quot;game changer&amp;quot;.  They give so much potential to reframe the photo after shooting, selecting the most relevant area of the frame and &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; having enough detail to blow-up to prints.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canon&apos;s 120MP Camera Sensor</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2018/03/29/this-is-the-power-of-canons-120mp-camera-sensor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galago</author><text>A lot of cameras are sticking at 24MP because that&amp;#x27;s where a lot of lenses start to reach a weak point. Also, file size to utility becomes a consideration because most people expect cloud&amp;#x2F;sharing. I feel like 100+MP is going to be an enthusiast thing for a long time. It seems a lot like car speeds. Every car sold today can go over 100 miles per hour. Some people still care about how fast their car can go, but most don&amp;#x27;t really think about it or even know their car&amp;#x27;s top speed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slantyyz</author><text>I tend to think this 120MP sensor is probably going to be sold commercially as a surveillance product first.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a lot of need for products like this in stadiums, arenas, large public areas etc.</text></comment>