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    The Worlds Largest Digital Camera

    Megapixel wise, not in sheer size.

    A 1,400 megapixel camera is being primarily used to hunt for earth crossing asteroids, but it is finding other interesting objects as well.

    A quote from the article:

    "Each image, if printed out as a 300-dpi photograph, would cover half a basketball court, and PS1 takes an image every 30 seconds. The amount of data PS1 produces every night would fill 1,000 DVDs."

    Here is the full story from Astonomy.com:

    http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=9960

    And another from Space.com:

    http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ids-10618.html
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    Re: The Worlds Largest Digital Camera

    I'm not getting one until the prints will cover the whole court.

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    Talking I'm not getting one...

    Quote Originally Posted by photophorous
    I'm not getting one until the prints will cover the whole court.
    Amen brother! I am with you! This constant upgrading of cameras has got to stop!
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    I guess you need a better camera

    Quote Originally Posted by ChristopherCoon
    I guess you need a better camera than that,am not sure if that will work out,anyway you try it out
    We ALL need a better camera. I need a Nikon D3X. Now if I just had $8000 burning a hole in my pocket, I'd get one....

    It is amazing how far digital camera's have come in just a few years.
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