Quote: ☆ Pentax + news new ☆New Products [VOL.4] 2010.3.8 notice
Number of effective pixels is about 40 million pixels!
www.camera-pentax.jp/new
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About 4000 adopted effective megapixel ultra-high-resolution sensors.
The extra large area imaging sensor is
Pixel pitch while there is room for ultra-high resolution,
Also get a sense of air as well as to express the solidity of the subject.
[source: Vol.4 news update to appear Tuesday 10:00 Tokyo time]
With all information we have (e.g., 1.7x surface factor wrt 35mm and Kodak being supplier for the earlier prototype), we can now close the case about the origin of sensor.
It is the Kodak KAF-40000 sensor (the same as in Leica S2 except for the form factor).
Now that it is official, read all about it here:
Kodak KAF-40000 Product Specification PDF
Kodak specifies a framerate of 1.3 fps (the absolute maximum with 4 channels (L/R A/B) and the specified maximum of 18 MHz would be 1.7 fps).
Expect to soon see 7304x5478 pixel images from a Pentax digital camera
EDIT:
I stand corrected. At the time I wrote this, we couldn't close the case about the origin of sensor yet. Because it may be the KAF-4000
OR a sensor chip from DALSA too. Read on below.