Sensitivity like that requires big ol' photosites. No surprise that the resolution is low. Way cool piece of news, thanks for sharing!
Sensitivity like that requires big ol' photosites. No surprise that the resolution is low. Way cool piece of news, thanks for sharing!
Looks like a telescope sensor. Or perhaps for surveillance, sats and drones.I am sure even if its a million each they have a market.
Perhaps in 20 years they'll be on fleabay at a price that makes me think about adapting one to a lf.
Forget large sensors why not just setup a bunch of camera modules in your camera back so that there field of view slightly overlaps and stitch the result from all of them. Ctein just posted an article with more ideas along this vein. This could be a promising approach.
What to get the man that has everything?
There is a camera that has many, many pixels arranged in a small array, and its mission was designed to capture deep sky objects...
The CCD camera is located here: http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/sdss/inst...nstruments.asp
If you want to cruise through the universe and see the deep sky images, where you can zoom in to a single galaxy, it is located here: http://www.sdss3.org/dr8/
The site requires that you sign on, but it is free and open to the public. When you request a deep sky image, the data base will be searched and you will be sent an email indicating that you can view the requested image. They do not seem to be coloured images, but black and white images, at least the ones the site presented me.
That said, the technology is there to produce a digital back for a large format camera, albeit with a extremely very hefty price tag.
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