What’s In the Canon EOS-1DX Sensor?

If you find yourself sitting at home drooling over the 18.1MP full-frame 35mm sensor in Canon’s new EOS-1DX camera, Canon Europe has released details to make you even more excited to try it out.

Some of the technological details-

• New photodiode construction has resulted in an improved photoelectric conversion rate that gives increased light sensitivity.

• Improved transistors inside the pixels are said to make SNR higher

• The first time that gapless microlenses have been employed on a Canon full-frame sensor.

• 14fps speed is achieved by a 16-channel analog output with two-vertical-pixel simultaneous readout. The 16 outputs are muxed in 4 ADCs siting on a separate image processor chip Digic 5+. It is around 1.4 times faster than the previous generation EOS-1D Mark IV and said to be a first for a 35mm full-frame digital sensor. At ISO 32,000 or higher the frame rate is reduced to 10fps

With all this tech talk, we here at DPG cannot wait to get our hands on the EOS-1DX!