1 Billion Pixels

[spacefuzz]

Popular Science (7/6, Dillow) reported, "The biggest, most sensitive digital camera ever constructed for a space mission has been built by the European Space Agency." The ESA used 106 CCDs to develop the "Galaxy-mapping Gaia mission's 'billion-pixel array,'" which is expected to be operational in 2013. The mission "aims to map a full billion stars just within our own Milky Way galaxy (nevermind the distant quasars and intergalactic light it will also log)."

Cool, now that's a big camera.

 

[Derrel]

That would be good for shooting artwork to be down-sized and printed on T-shirts...

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...an-enlarge-12mb-16mb-nef-before-destorts.html

 

[Biggs88]

Popular Science (7/6, Dillow) reported, "The biggest, most sensitive digital camera ever constructed for a space mission has been built by the European Space Agency." The ESA used 106 CCDs to develop the "Galaxy-mapping Gaia mission's 'billion-pixel array,'" which is expected to be operational in 2013. The mission "aims to map a full billion stars just within our own Milky Way galaxy (nevermind the distant quasars and intergalactic light it will also log)."

Cool, now that's a big camera.

I wonder what there going to set the ISO at???

lol

 

[djacobox372]

A simple 11x14" field camera can do better then 1 billion pixels (almost 2 billion!), and a realtively common 8x10" camera might also be able to obtain that mark with 25iso fine grain film.