Wait...hold on....100mp, 33x44mm, and BSI? If so, I'm guessing this is the first camera out there with one of the new sony chips they teased us on the roadmap?
Seems so...
Correct.
Yet another first claimed by Team Phase One, owed to its significant investment in R+D over the past decade.
For those keeping track at home (get out your bingo cards), using ship dates:
- First with long exposures
- First to 60mp
- First to 80mp
- First to MF CMOS*
- First to 100mp
- First to MF BSI
And those are just the modern sensor-based examples of firsts
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Do note, that the iXM 100mp is
quite specific to industrial applications such as aerial mapping. You won't be shooting selfies, cats, or landscape images with it anytime soon. And it's unclear when P1 or anyone else will use this sensor or its future cousins, into a standard photographic product. It's typically much easier to incorporate new sensors into industrial products than products with pesky requirements like batteries, viewfinders, LCDs, menus, user interfaces in multiple languages, on-camera live view, and high volumes of final-production sensors.