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Mazmanian.net
14th of December 2007 (Fri), 14:46
Carrying here a tale regarding a large, four-lens Canon camera on its way.

I thought the person describing the camera was actually talking about some sort of oddball "landscape" device, but then he mentioned the lenses as being arranged two-over-two, with five CMOS sensors and completely full-sized...that is, not like a little pocket or novelty camera but like a professional-style rig, with regular mounts, and all.

Could this be Canon's new idea for capturing extremely large images? That would be some image file, indeed.

If four lenses and five sensors, I'm thinking there's some kind of hardware stitching of the image capture, making it seamlessly one image? Still, that doesn't seem correct. Seems like the image wouldn't quite match, and that a fifth CMOS chip would be superfluous, anyway.

On the other hand, I'm hardly a visual optics physicist scientist baron.

Anyone?

VTSHEP1
14th of December 2007 (Fri), 17:44
Wow, that sounds crazy. 4 times the glass revenue for Canon.

Kostyanych
15th of December 2007 (Sat), 08:25
Is this the one? :)

circa
15th of December 2007 (Sat), 15:53
I can't even begin to imagine the price on that.

wernersl
15th of December 2007 (Sat), 16:21
im guessing they could "shoot" something down with that! looks like a damn battleship. USS Canon.

Kostyanych
18th of December 2007 (Tue), 10:37
I have no idea what it is. I just found this picture on the net. But it looks dangerous. :)

cosworth
18th of December 2007 (Tue), 10:42
Astrophotography. Those are 200 1.8 lenses arranged with some serious imaging sensors.

It's been posted here about 3498 times.

wernersl
18th of December 2007 (Tue), 13:26
thought it was just 3497 times. i must have miscounted. :)

HectorsGTI
18th of December 2007 (Tue), 13:31
i bet you could see the moon with that!

SlowBlink
18th of December 2007 (Tue), 13:34
i bet you could see the moon with that!

LOL....that will always be funny.

MLphoto
19th of December 2007 (Wed), 03:07
I can't even begin to imagine the price on that.

170 000

pumaknight
19th of December 2007 (Wed), 19:09
that is freaking awesome - imagine the camera bag you would need ;-)

Proctorr
20th of December 2007 (Thu), 13:19
Cooled Sensors 10MP+ sensors to battle thermal noise :cool:

I bet those sensors are around $6.5k each.