Quote Originally Posted by conropl View Post
Technically speaking, IR is a color (just in the non-visible wave length). So you could still be correct, and Canon is just being vague on purpose to protect IP.
Yup. The thing that got me thinking IR might be too low-res to use as freely as the "color" channels, is that on the IR birding page I linked to, all the standalone IR imaging devices are super low-res. 1) 208x156 @ $250, 2) 80x60 @ $350, and 3) 384x288 @ $1600

Part of the price on the "high-res" one is going to be because it IS a very niche item, but if resolution was as cheap for IR as it is normal sensors, why wouldn't any of these companies had made higher-res devices? I'm thinking that adding IR pixels isn't as easy as RGB pixels. Canon has likely added just enough to help.