Digital Home Thoughts: Canon on Proof of Concept Roll: Now Showing Off Huge Sensor

"Canon Inc. announced today that it has successfully developed the world's largest CMOS image sensor, with a chip size measuring 202 x 205 mm. Because its expanded size enables greater light-gathering capability, the sensor is capable of capturing images in one one-hundredth the amount of light required by a professional-model digital SLR camera."

Well, looks like Canon is off on some showy announcements; in preparation for Photokina showcases, I guess. 20cm by 20cm is in the range of the large format territory: The 8 x 10 format in this case. 4 x 5 sheet film cameras are already big enough as it is (even a "small" Graflex Speed Graphic fully setup is still bigger than most DSLRs), so if a camera actually gets made from this, it is going to really big. I can hear the large format enthusiasts dreaming about what they can do with this though. Strangely Canon makes no mention of megapixels this time.