The megapixel race isnt over if you ask Canon. Today, the company announced a new 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor with a resolution of 410 megapixels. Thats 24,592 x 16,704 pixels and a resolution thats equivalent to 24K or 12 times the resolution of 8K and 198 times the resolution of HD.Its the largest numberof pixels ever achieved in a 35mm full-frame sensor, according to Canon, but dont expect the company to introduce it on its consumer-ready digital cameras. Its designed for surveillance, medicine, and other industrial applications that demand extreme resolution, and dont mind paying a small fortune for it.Thanks to a redesigned circuitry pattern and a newly developed back-illuminated stacked formation in which the pixel segment and signal processing segment are interlayered, Canon says the sensor has a readout speed of 3,280 megapixels per second, allowing full-resolution images to be captured at eight frames per second.Canon will also offer a monochrome version of the sensor with a four-pixel binning function that improves low-light sensitivity by treating four nearby pixels as one. Although that reduces its overall resolution, it allows the monochromatic version of the sensor to capture 100-megapixel videos at 24 frames per second.If you want to maximize your megapixels, you typically need to turn to medium-format or larger sensors and bigger cameras. The Phase One XF IQ4 150MP, for example, can capture images at 150-megapixels. But by putting this much resolution into a 35mm sensor that will be compatible with a wide range of lenses already available for full-frame cameras, Canon says it will help contribute to the miniaturization of shooting equipment.