Friday, February 6, 2015 at 5:24AM
Editor in Canon 5Ds, Canon 5Ds R
Marking a new standard in high-resolution digital SLR photography, the Canon EOS 5DS camera shatters the status quo with a new 50.6 Megapixel, full-frame CMOS sensor and dual DIGIC 6 Image Processors. Perfect for studio, commercial, fine art, landscape, architectural, portrait and wedding photography, and large-scale printing, the EOS 5DS represents the ultimate combination of EOS performance and ultra-high megapixel capture. Joining the EOS 5DS is the EOS 5DS R, which adds an LPF* (low-pass filter) cancellation effect, for specialized applications where pixel-level sharpness and detail are desired.
The EOS 5DS and EOS 5DS R cameras offer the highest resolution capture in the history of EOS: a Canon designed and manufactured, full-frame 50.6 Megapixel CMOS sensor. It captures 8712 x 5813 effective pixels, delivering images with wide dynamic range and an incredible level of realism perfect for large-scale printing, fine art, significant crops and any number of other high-end applications. A new Picture Style setting, called Fine Detail, helps emphasize fine edges, patterns and textures. Thanks to the dual DIGIC 6 sensors, photographs and HD movies are captured and processed with remarkable speed.
While sharing the same 50.6 Megapixel sensor and photographic capabilities, the difference between the EOS 5DS and the EOS 5DS R cameras is EOS 5DS R’s low-pass filter cancellation effect.
LPF (EOS 5DS)
Standard on every EOS SLR (with the exception of the EOS 5DS R) the low-pass filter serves to eliminate false colors and moiré patterns that can be recorded by the camera’s sensor.
LPF Cancellation (EOS 5DS R)
While the LPF's purpose is to minimize the moiré and false color artifacting inherent in digital imaging, it does reduce resolving power of the sensor. The EOS 5DS R camera's LPF cancellation effect delivers greater sharpness and finer detail, useful in specialized situations, but the possibility of moiré and color artifacting is greater however. Fortunately, there are methods to help eliminate these effects while capturing and during post-processing.