Posted on 06/19/2006 3:51:01 PM PDT by aimhigh
DALSA Semiconductor has today announced that it has developed the worlds first sensor with a total resolution of over 100 million pixels. To be more specific this single sensor, developed for astronomy, has 10,560 x 10,560 pixels, 111 million in total. The active area of the sensor measures approximately four by four inches and has a 9 µm pixel pitch. This sensor has been developed in conjunction with Semiconductor Technology Associates for the US Naval Observatory.
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I want one of these! :^)
I'm going to need a bigger hard drive.
It's for astronomy, not consumer use. Not that it won't eventually be used in a digital camera... it'll just be a good long while before that happens.
Current digicam megapixel counts are fine. Lenses need more improvement than megapixel counts do.
More importantly than that, hundred-megapixel technology will render commercial digital cameras equivalent or superior to their analog counterparts in terms of grain. At that point, there's essentially nothing you can do with an analog camera that you can't do *better* with a digital one.
Also, this dovetails elegantly with the rise of super-high-resolution visual displays. These are effectively defined as displays in which a single pixel, when viewed at a distance of about 2 feet, is smaller than the visual cone of a foveal retinal cell. With SHR displays, it's physically impossible to tell that the image you're viewing consists of pixels. The question of how to render bitmaps, such as digital photographs, on SHR displays is a little tricky from a software and human interface design standpoint. Hundred-megapixel camera images make a lot of sense in such a context.
Exactly. The chip's die size is far too large for any kind of consumer camera, or even high end CCTV security cams. The scale of the lens required to use this CCD chip is ... wait for it .... astronomical.
But does it have a direct-print button?
LOL Yes, it does, but you have to climb up a tall stepladder and get in to the observer's cab to get at it.
4 x 4 inches would bring back the Hasselblad.
trying to post an image here ........ duh
...and a longer lifespan while you wait for the camera to download 24 pictures.
Yep, there's your 4x4 technology. The pictures would be amazing. I'd love to see a few photos taken with these.
Don't tell me wife. She'll close our bank account, so I can't buy one. LOL As if any of us could.
Can I install it in my UZ1?
eh, the megapixels is nice.
I'm more interested in frames per second.
Try buying a camera that does 500FPS and get back to me. When you build equipment that actually DOES something, having a pretty picture with a billion colors is nice. Having 500 to 1000 frames to view when it is in motion in a second or less is priceless.
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