The BIGGEST Digital Camera Ever Made!
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Published 2024-04-20
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In the early 1990s, a group of scientists had a dream: a new type of telescope that would push astronomy, astrophysics, and imaging technology further than ever before. It would be a device that could see giant swaths of the sky and help unravel the mystery of dark matter. 30 years later, that dream is a reality.
Just how impressive is the LSST, the brand new, world’s biggest camera? Chris Niccolls went to SLAC laboratories in Stanford to take a close up look at this incredible piece of technology.
Read more about the LSST on PetaPixel: petapixel.com/2024/04/20/the-biggest-digital-camer…
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0:00 - Intro
2:14 - The sensor
4:36 - The lens
5:46 - Filters
6:38 - The shutter
7:26 - Cooling
8:44 - Vera Rubin Observatory
9:28 - Transportation
10:27 - What will it do?
11:42 - The wrap
All Comments (21)
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Now THAT is full frame haha
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Really love how PetaPIxel keeps pushing towards being a channel about Photography and Videography writ large instead of just another camera review channel. Great stuff.
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Can you use it for street photography?
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If my math is right, that's 0.0000032 PetaPixels!
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Where's the thecamerastore link to this camera? And what bag do you recommend for it?
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And it’s still cheaper than a 10 year old Leica
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Love how there they are super precise with the aperture giving it at f/1.23. And then there are phone manufacturers with their tiny optics claiming their phone has a f/1.78 and not f/1.8
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"We're gonna talk about science next, hopefully my hair is okay." Priorities.
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Complaints: “You’re stuck with only one lens.” “It’s still on backorder. Ugh.” “No strap lugs.”
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3:50 The size of the pixel is not chosen to be smaller than a "star image". It is chosen to be somewhat smaller than size of PSF (point spread function) of the telescope in the focal plane. Because telescope can't produce details smaller than PSF, having much smaller pixels don't help, but readout electronics gets more complicated the more pixels you have.
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Not full frame. Literally unusuable.
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Biggest sensor camera ever made filmed on.... M43! Love it!
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Petapixel, some info you gave was not accurate or incomplete. As an astronomy amateur, I easily spotted them. 1. The camera was designed for the telescope, not the other way around. In fact, the whole complex was designed on the limits we can actually achieve with the tech we have, but the size of the primary mirror is the number 1 limit. 2. The lenses in front of the sensor are corrective lenses, field flattener, astigmatism corrector and chromatic aberration corrector. They don't serve other purposes than that and they are a must for such a fast telescope (f/1.3) and an unavoidable compromise. 3. it would have been nice to give us an equivalent field of view on a full frame format. 3.5-degree field of view translates to a 600mm lens of a full frame camera (horizontal field of view).
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I see they photographed a broccoli with. It makes me DESPERATELY want to see a portrait on this thing. I hope they took some selfies or made an artwork.
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Perfect for my street photography!
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Chris has become one of the best presenters I know of. Truly great!
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I think the photo filter carousel is my favorite part. Would love to have that on a real camera
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I greatly appreciate the Noct measurement comparison, it truly puts it into perspective!
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4:17 would be really cool if they sold those as souvenirs, it would be a sick thing to have at home as a conversation starter
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I have never seen Jaron so focused with that lasagna lightning.
