Camera with 3.1 Gigapixels for making time lapse panoramas of the universe has sensor more than 350 times larger than Full Frame!

https://www.dpreview.com/news/3829200267/world-s-largest-camera-3-1-gigapixels-for-epic-timelapse-panos-of-the-universe

It may be really interesting, seeing what this new camera may aid in discovering new knowledge about our cosmos! 3.1 Gigapixels is 3,100 megapixels! So a single image from the camera, with regard to resolution, may be equivalent to taking one hundred images with a 31 megapixel camera. This is all akin to the gigapixel imagery that has been done using SLRs that had telephoto lenses mounted on them (think something like a 250mm lens) to create a wide-angle image of about ten millimeters. I don’t know exactly how Gigapixel images from readily available cameras would compare to a single image from the enormous 3.2 Gigapixel camera with regard to dynamic range and noise performance, but personally, it seems like it may be a very fascinating comparison, if anyone ever does such a comparison!

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