World’s Most Powerful Camera Receives Funding Approval

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ^ | January 9, 2015 | No Attribution

[Vendome]

Well, as typical, they suck...

[knarf]

EXCELLENT !!!

[reg45]

Stars are sources of energy.

[MeshugeMikey]

My Canon camer has 21...megapixels

a 3200 Megapixel sensor is likely going to be pretty hefty

the lens Im thinking will be a fixed lens..and thus add to the measured size of the camera body

[Gamecock]

How long before we see selfies from that camera?

[MeshugeMikey]

I cant imagine what sort of Networked computers...they will need to process photos that large...

a few terrabytes of ram.... at a minimum..

[yarddog]

It seems to me that the ability to resolve detail depends to a great degree on how many pixels there are to the square inch or square whatever.

[MeshugeMikey]

it would require a very VERY strong wifi signal to get any usable results...

[Ken522]

3200 megapixel camera = 160 x 20 megapixel cameras; these egg-heads are going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars that we don’t have on this project - utter insanity!

[MeshugeMikey]

the resoluton is dependant on the number of dots....or pixels and their size

Id like to know who got the contract for the sensor or multi[ple sensors

[MeshugeMikey]

they’re doing their part to increase the size of the deficit!

[Fungi]

I was off by a factor of 100, but still, seems rather small for such a large scope.

[yarddog]

It depends on how many pixels per area. The quality of the optics, the quality of the pixels, plus probably many other factors count but the density of pixels is critical, not just how many.

[MeshugeMikey]

Im thinking that theres still a glass ceiling for the production of a larger sensor..so to speak.

im guessing that theres likely a threshold in the technical feasibility

[__rvx86]

What contributions? As I recall from basic astronomy, black holes do nothing but take stuff, much like black people.

[Fungi]

The Sigma sensor is interesting. Have you read about it? Intuitively it makes more sense than CCD or CMOS, but it never took hold.

[MeshugeMikey]

I was being as sarcastic as humanly possible,

I suspect that they will be photographing the deficit in their spare time

[MeshugeMikey]

Yes I have been paying a lot of attention to that one since they accounced that 22k dollar camera that was then marked down to around iK.

I sense that there will likely be a breakthrough of another sort in sensor technology within the next five years or so.

[MeshugeMikey]

ype I know that

[yarddog]

I guess you are talking about the foveon sensor. I don’t really understand exactly how they work but I have read that it has 3 layers and acts more like film.

It does take more pixels for the same resolution tho. Sigma still uses it and they have their fans.