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              largerformat
              May 17, 2012
              Lee Morris

              [Video] With Your Help We Can Make The Largest Digital Camera Ever

              Last year we had a meet up in Arizona and I was lucky enough to meet Zeke, a mechanical engineer who works on some of the most impressive digital cameras on the planet (and off the planet). I was able to hold one of these cameras and learn a thing or two about what it can do. These large cameras are mainly used in space to take exposures that last literally hours but Zeke told me that he wanted to make one of these into a working camera that any photographer could use (on planet earth).

              Zeke explained that these sensors are so incredibly expensive, his company will not be willing to spend the money to produce this camera unless they see a large enough response. So guys, this comes down to you. If you can comment below and on Youtube and share this video on Facebook, Twitter, and your personal blogs, we may just be able to convince Spectral Instruments that this could be a valuable marketing move. If this camera ever does get made. I will fly anywhere in the world to do a photoshoot with it and film a BSTV. Let’s make this happen people!

              largerformat2 [Video] With Your Help We Can Make The Largest Digital Camera Ever

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              • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.agerbak Andrew Agerbak

                It’s gotta be done…

              • http://www.facebook.com/rafal.pikul Rafal Pikul

                Like it! :)

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dean-Messenger/691282675 Dean Messenger

                want.. please.. more than happy to test

              • william maccollum

                that could be very cool, a 4×5 sensor or on that is purely set for IR photography in such a large format.. great!

                http://www.maccollum.com

              • william maccollum

                that could be very cool, a 4×5 sensor or on that is purely set for IR photography in such a large format.. great!

                http://www.maccollum.com

              • william maccollum

                that could be very cool, a 4×5 sensor or on that is purely set for IR photography in such a large format.. great!

                http://www.maccollum.com

              • http://profiles.google.com/simon.lynchsae Simon Lynch

                A Montrealer from Université de Montréal actuallly created a controleur that surpasses anything yet. It actually sees the photons, even in the dark: 
                http://www.photonetc.com/

                When your first client is NASA, you know you’ve made it.

              • http://twitter.com/oracleondelhi Chris Peters

                This would be amazing to work with. I’m not sure I would know what to shoot, probably everything, until I figure out what it’s best at. Landscape, studio work, surrealism and so on. I would love to try it.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=686043972 Berthe De Vos

                let-s make it, i will buy one.

              • http://twitter.com/EmceeGrady Emcee Grady

                Carl Zeiss for the lens and Philip bloom taking the picture.

              • David Wooddell

                I need it to shoot infrared so I can see through the pigments in ancient paintings. I would take it back to the Bonampak Murals and photograph each wall as a single image, and also have it mosaic the walls for higher-res individual images. I did this previously with Kodak’s high speed b&w infrared 35mm film, but the Bonampak Murals Documentation project would be better served with images from the largest digital camera every made. http://wooddellphoto.com/2011/07/knowing-what-we-know/

              • Matthew Wagg

                WOW, mind officially blown. Meld that sensor onto the back of a Sinar F3 with a sweet lens and lets
                see what portraits would look like with such a mega impressive sensor. I
                can’t see it being that much work to make a fitting that’d sit on the
                filmplane of a 5×4 view or rail camera. Let Chase Jarvis at it. If he can do a sports shoot with a lego camera, just imagine what he’d do with this monster ^-^

              • Howard_Davidson

                Make sure there is space in the optical path for a LCD tunable filter for field sequential and hyperspectral color imaging.

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicholas-Newport/1455953812 Nicholas Newport

                Photographing stars and the sun in the same image would rock

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-La-Roche/1332327343 David La Roche

                I lol’d

              • Ian Bevis

                This is awesome and needs to be built.We would love to use this. http://www.chameleonwebservices.co.uk/360-virtual-tours/

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