A 3,200-megapixel camera

Saturday 25 May 2024, 22:44 by Nando Harmsen | 2,443 views | 2 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Are you obsessed with high resolution? Then you probably dream of a camera with 50, 100 or even 200 megapixels. There is always room for more. Chile now has a 3,200-megapixel camera. It is as big as a car.

It is the largest digital camera ever built. Its sensor has no fewer than 3,200 megapixels. This camera is of course not for everyday use. It is intended to capture the entire night sky for ten years from 2025 onwards.

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Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
The camera, which is as big as a car, is being installed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile. In just over a year, the entire night sky will be photographed every few days. This is part of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).

The camera's field of view, or angle of view, is seven times the diameter of the full Moon. To give you an idea, that is 3.5 degrees. This is almost equivalent to a 600mm lens on a full-frame camera.

Although that sounds like a very long focal length, this is considered an enormous field of view here. It is a matter of perspective.

You can find more information on the NOIRLab website.

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Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.

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2 comments

Paul van Aken wrote on Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 12:10 | reply
Moet je niet over nadenken hoelang je pc nodig heeft om 1 zo'n beeld om te zetten in iets zichtbaars! Zal een aardige computer aanhangen om dat werk te doen. Ben wel nieuwsgierig hoe dat er dan zal uitzien.
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Michael de Roo wrote on Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 16:05 | reply
Nog even wachten op de quantumcomputer zodat je, Paul, thuis gewoon kan meekijken.
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