Sony’s New Global Shutter Sensor
- The Magazine For Photographers
- Sep 30
- 1 min read
Sony just pulled the curtain back on a pretty wild new sensor, the IMX927. It is a square, backside-illuminated stacked CMOS chip with a global shutter that shows off what Sony’s sensor division is capable of right now. At 105 megapixels and up to 100 frames per second, it is one of the most ambitious combinations of speed and resolution we have seen from any sensor.
The IMX927 measures 39.7mm across the diagonal, which makes it a bit smaller than a full-frame sensor, but still on the large side. The output is a perfectly square 10,272 by 10,272 pixels, and thanks to Sony’s Pregius S global shutter tech, it avoids the rolling shutter artifacts you would normally see at high frame rates. Depending on the bit depth, it can push out 112 FPS at 8-bit, 102 FPS at 10-bit, or 73 FPS at 12-bit.
Each pixel is just 2.74 microns, but the stacked, back-illuminated design gives it strong sensitivity and decent saturation capacity despite the small size. Sony is pitching it for things like semiconductor inspection, flat-panel display testing, and other jobs where you need sharp, distortion-free imaging at speed. Don’t expect this exact sensor to appear in a consumer camera, but tech like this (especially the high-resolution global shutter design) could eventually trickle down into future mirrorless models.
You can see full details on Sony’s website here
