Canon/Nikon/PhaseOne - eat your heart out - This is a Sensor
Zeke at Spectral Instruments is proposing building one of their custom sensors for a landscape photographer. Check out the video below - seems like a really cool guy.
He notes a 120 MP sensor that is 95mm x 95mm. Black and white. No bayer. No AA filter. Cooled down to -100C to remove any noise issues. Apparently the dynamic range of their sensor would let you take an image in the middle of the day and get the sun and stars in view.
They plan to build this thing if they get enough of a 'social'/viral push.
He's also looking for landscape photographers who want to take him up on the offer to shoot with the beast :wink
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He notes a 120 MP sensor that is 95mm x 95mm. Black and white. No bayer. No AA filter. Cooled down to -100C to remove any noise issues. Apparently the dynamic range of their sensor would let you take an image in the middle of the day and get the sun and stars in view.
They plan to build this thing if they get enough of a 'social'/viral push.
He's also looking for landscape photographers who want to take him up on the offer to shoot with the beast :wink
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"Dear Zeke,
Without a doubt, my nomination for the landscape photographer for the Spectral Instruments ultra-performance camera, is Marc Muench, one of the most noted landscape photographers of our time, and son of David Muench, one of the most noted landscape photographers of all time.
http://www.muenchphotography.com/
http://lightworkshops.com/marc_muench.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Muench"
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PLEASE! The GSA will be giving these away in their next convention gift bags.
Sam
So true and very refreshing I might add. Also, imagine how many crates of beer ... err, soda you
could cool with -100C out in the wilderness pretending to shoot photos with your pals on a hiking trip.
I wonder who makes the lense(s) for such a gigantic custom fit prototype camera ?!
― Edward Weston
95mm = 3.7402 inches, so any 4" x 5" view or field camera lens should cover the imaging field. I have 4 such lenses.
Whether they would do justice to the 120MPix resolution of the system would have to be tested and proven. I suspect that 3 of my lenses would do just fine.
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Its a beast first before a camera, lol
Since they seem very smart and know what they're doing, I think (I really hope) they'd use DNG format.
The Spectral Instruments imager is a true monochromatic (B&W). That should reduce the storage requirements somewhat per exposure. I don't recall a mention of the bit depth, however.
I would be willing to give it a shot. (Pun intended. )
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The easiest way is just to strip the data from the camera's buffers and save it to a custom TIFF file. There's really no need for a DNG file format for an experimental camera like this. As long as the sensel data is recorded in a logical sequence or array, it should be easy to reform the data back into an image shape.
Since there is no color mosaic (again, it is monochromatic) the sensor will only display luminance levels in the data.
It will take a little doing to create a proper profile to convert the linear data readout into tones that we would call normal.
P.S. According to this document:
http://www.specinst.com/Brochures%20Rev%20A/1100S-camera-broch_RevA.pdf
... they are using an FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) file format for the images.
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B&W does make it a bit simpler so whatever works! I hope the camera doesnt throw FITS!
It'd be cool if they had internal color filters for making color images too... digital dye transfer prints! ... or whatever term is correct if thats not the right term You know what I mean.
I also wonder why -100C is the operating temperture. I would have thought that liquid nitrogen temperature (-196C) would be easier, but perhaps they have some sort of super-Peltier cooling system on it.
― Edward Weston
Id love to see its DR in action, that is quite the spectrum but from what Ive seen I guess its possible. As for portability Manfr3d Ive used thermal cameras in the lab that are about the size of a phase one which use liquid nitrogen to cool the sensor. They dont have to be that big. Man I wish I could afford one.