World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera Is Being Built And Will Have 3.2 Giga-pixel Resolution

 

It only gets better and better for the photo world with the invention of 'giga-pixel' . Just imagine how great. 

 You think that a 16MP camera in your smartphone is too good? Well, the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory just approved the world largest digital camera to be constructed. It will have a resolution of 3.2-gigapixels and to put that in perspective; you will require 1,500 HD television screens to be able to display one image. The new camera will be installed at the heart of 8.4 meters Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) that is being constructed on top of Cerro Pachón in Chile.

 As expected, the camera is not anywhere near lightweight. The device is three-mirrored and is the size of a small car and weighs over 3 tons. It is the outcome of collaboration between institutions that include Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National laboratory and SLAC. It features 189 sensors and a resolution that is equivalent to 800,000 eight-megapixel cameras. It also sports a filter-changing mechanism and shutter for viewing different wavelengths from the near ultraviolet to the near infrared.

   

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