Re: hi-res digital imager

Fairchild make a 9216x9216 ccd (CCD 595). Cost (1-off) in the UK for a
chip with blemishes is of order $80k.

Peter Hobson

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> www.cs.iastate.edu/~lcmi/stuff/KAF-22000CELongSpec.pdf
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> The Kodak KAF-22000CE, 4080 x 5440, 50.0 x 38.8mm color chip is the
> largest commercial single CCD I'm aware of. That's over 22 megapixels.
>
> There are several very large astronomical cameras in existence but all
> of them I know of are made of mosaics of 4096 x 4096 or smaller CCD's.
> As long as 10 years ago 8192x 8192 CCD's had been made experimentally
> but weren't economically practical.
>
> In CMOS, Cannon's 1DS Mark II camera has 16 megapixels. I don't know if
> it's the largest currently available.
>
> If those aren't large enough wait a few months. The technology hasn't
> maxed out. It's just keeping up with the market demand.
>

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