World's Largest Digital Camera | Gizmodo

It’s the size of a small car, with a table-sized focal plane, this 3.2 gigapixel digital camera is the largest one ever built. It is going to be installed in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to get incredibly detailed images of the night sky.


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We come from the future.

[scottstensland]

Can you turn up the volume of the background music, I can still faintly hear the narration

[lefunnymeme]

Less than 10 seconds in and I’m already worried about the hazmats.

I was wondering if the lense is a one piece or multiple pieces, and the challenge to align a lense made of multiple smaller lenses.

[snowballs]

This camera would be better suited on Military surveillance and into outer space

[leoestrada]

why is that one tracer girl screaming her ass off