{"id":18720,"date":"2020-10-28T04:17:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T08:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=18720"},"modified":"2020-10-25T23:59:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:59:32","slug":"bigger-than-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/bigger-than-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"bigger than Texas …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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a huge digital camera from SLAC courtesy of CNET<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0… and even Ontario! CNET reports that SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<\/a> recently announced the world’s largest digital camera. The article on CNET is, “Scientists capture world’s first 3,200-megapixel photos<\/a>” and states, “They successfully test the focal plane on the world’s largest digital camera, which will eventually help explore the cosmos.”.<\/p>\n

Modern day digital cameras have sensors far smaller, topping out under 100 megapixels. We first learned of these giga size images in November 2008<\/a> when Felix Russo of PhotoEd spoke on his Gigapan system and modern day panorama images. He later took a 750 megapixel shot of some laggards in the audience (including me).<\/p>\n

In November of 2015<\/a> I did a post on the Gigaplex system and its 2,100 megapixel photos. The Vancouver shot was captured in 2011 at the Canucks hockey game outside the arena. I also linked to a mountain scene shot in 2013, but you need the Adobe Flash plug-in to see it (Flash is history now).<\/p>\n

My thanks to my friend, Russ Forfar, up in the wilds of Southern Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. \u00a0… and even Ontario! CNET reports that SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory recently announced the world’s largest digital camera. The article on CNET is, “Scientists capture world’s first 3,200-megapixel photos” and states, “They successfully test the focal plane on the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[398,3379,3295,3378,3377,3376],"class_list":["post-18720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-camera","tag-cnet","tag-digial","tag-linear-accelerator","tag-slac","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18727,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720\/revisions\/18727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}