Canon announced a new global shutter image sensor available to other companies this week, and that has all the photography Web sites salivating over possible APS-C global shutter cameras.
The problem? Canon's available sensor is a 16:9 crop, essentially Super35, not APS-C. It's also only 10.3mp, which would be considered low for modern still cameras (though it allows for full pixel use 4K video at 60P).
Yes, there are rumors that the eventual R7 Mark II will have a global shutter, but it doesn't seem that this new available-to-all chip is a precursor of that, particularly considering that the current R7 is 33mp.
Will there be third-party video cameras that use this chip? Unclear. The only client I know of using Canon's previous chips is Illunis, an industrial and security camera company.
