400Mp images

[Jameel Hyder]

With the new firmware v1.81 for the Canon R5 they offer a way to pixel shift and get 400Mp images. Others have had this feature fir a while but no 10x the sensor size. Quite a few limitations of course. Among them - jpeg only, no RAW support. Shutter restricted to 0.5s or faster. Obviously one needs to use a tripod with subjects that are still for the duration of the exposure. My only wish would be RAW support which i hope they do in a future upgrade.

i played with it for indoor shots and it is pretty impressive.

Worth playing around.

 

[AlanLichty]

Karl Guttag is correct - with the Canon R5 Mark II the option does not exist under the IBIS menu items. There is an In-Camera Upscaling option described on page 661 of the manual with the following comment: "quadruple the total pixel count of your JPEG or HEIF images. Upscaling is available for images captured as JPEGs or HEIFs with an image size of L."

I only work with RAW outputs so this is not really a feature that interests me for how I intend to use the camera.

 

[JimFox]

I have that option to Pixel Shift on my Nikon Z8 but have never used it. I know lot's of people are excited about it, so for them and their use it certainly is a pretty cool feature. I am thinking probably more so those guys doing commercial work and needing to print to large sizes.

The majority of what I do is post my photos here anymore. So even my Nikon Z6II with 24mp resolution is more then enough for here.

I hope Jameel gets a chance to play around with it. It's something that would be interesting to see the results and here his feedback on not just shooting in that mode, but also processing those images.

 

[AlanLichty]

To the best of my knowledge Canon has not updated the camera firmware to output in RAW using IBIS pixel shifting on the R5 so you are stuck with HEIC or JPEG. From what I see on the R5m2 the on-camera enlargement is just that - an in camera enlargement and not a pixel-shifted capture at all. I have plenty of ways to enlarge a RAW file in post processing. One nice advantage of more megapixels is for birders who can zoom with a crop on their subject.

There is nothing in my manuals indicating that pixel-shifted captures are some kind of last minute oversight that will be added in an update later.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is a comparison of the crop from the 400MP file using IBIS vs. a regular 45MP file upscaled @ 300% in photoshop to get the same resolution. Click through for the full size. I had to take it at ISO 400 due to the lighting in the room and the shutter speed limitation of 0.5s.

IBIS vs Upscale

• Jameel Hyder
• Sep 18, 2024
• 2

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[AlanLichty]

I think I will stick with Gigapixel AI if I really need to enlarge something. The IBIS enlarge feature doesn't exist in the R5m2.