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Old 19-09-2011, 01:17 AM
Danack (Dan Ackroyd)
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Canon makes sensor 40 times full-frame for Schmidt telescope

http://www.photographybay.com/2011/0...I.PJ6epitv62xu

"With a chip size of 202 x 205 mm, the ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor, developed by Canon last year, is among the largest that can be produced from an approximately 300-mm (12 inch) wafer.*2 The device is approximately 40 times the size of Canon’s largest commercial CMOS sensor*3 and makes possible video recording in dark conditions with as little as 0.3 lux*4 of illumination. In January this year, the CMOS sensor was installed on the focal plane of the Kiso Observatory’s 105 cm Schmidt telescope and used to record video at approximately 60 frames per second, resulting in the successful video recording of faint meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10 across a wide 3.3° x 3.3° field of view."


It doesn't say what resolution it records the video, or takes stills at - but it sounds impressive.
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Old 19-09-2011, 09:32 AM
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Yep...read about this one last year when it was first announced. Decent sized chip!!!.

Oh...say hello to Harold (Ramis) and Bill (Murray) for me
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