500-Megapixel Camera (No, that 500MB is not a typo!)

[Subway]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/2358219

Fermilab, a U.S. Department of Energy research lab, is part of a collaboration on an experiment to measure the properties of dark energy. The Dark Energy Survey would measure the history of the expansion rate of the universe more precisely than ever before, using the largest camera ever built with Charge Coupled Devices (CCD). The 500 megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) would be placed on an existing 4-meter telescope located in north-central Chile at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The DECam together with the CTIO 4-meter telescope will allow for a survey of 15 percent of the sky to light levels faint enough to measure the colors of galaxies at redshift one.

Try to open them in Photosop. Or what about a Flashcard that could store just a dozen of them (500MB for a 8 bit grayscale or about 4.5GB for a true color RGB).

Fredi

[WannaBe_80z]

so when are these hitting stores shelves? I want it out by chirstmas

[Subway]

Originally posted by WannaBe_80z
I want it out by chirstmas

You know whom to ask:





Fredi

[WannaBe_80z]

I am going to kidnap Mrs. Claus and hold her ransom....

[PAlexC]

Originally posted by Subway
Try to open them in Photosop. Or what about a Flashcard that could store just a dozen of them (500MB for a 8 bit grayscale or about 4.5GB for a true color RGB).

Finally, a use for a top o' the line dualie G5.

[Subway]

Just don't add any additional layers.

Fredi

[The_Insomniac]

Originally posted by PAlexC
Finally, a use for a top o' the line dualie G5.

There is a use for those?!?!?

[owned.]

[rainbowfly]

I want one as well, although I saw a 8 megapixel camera in my geek magazine and completly drooled.....

The technology trains ride fast and I'm not ready to get off yet :P

Thanks for sharing

[The_Insomniac]

I saw a 13 Kodak for 4K and a 10 Canon for 7K. I rather the Canon. But if I even had that money, I would go for the.. wait, canon again. :P

[save_larry]

You gotta admit that Dark Energy Camera is a cool name.

[pooon]

Actually you could make quite a nice desktop if your screen resolution was 25920 X 19440.

[Subway]

Originally posted by pooon
screen resolution was 25920 X 19440.

I hope the rumored new 30" screens from Apple feature a higher resolution then 1920x1080:



You just can't have a big enough screen res.

Fredi

[fospher.com]

Hey, I live right by fermilab. In fact, my old man works there. Maybe one of the professors with glasses and a moustache can give me a phat hookup with one of those beasts