World's Largest Camera, the 3.2-Gigapixel LSST, Is Complete

[@ShellymanStudios]

This will be on the Galaxy S29.

[@josephmgift]

😅😅

[@varunpathak2678]

No it will be in S69

[@Shashee99]

Exactly 😂✋

[@Twinflame915]

Galaxy s30 man

[@mjdj36]

S420

[@nalzazlan]

Finally a camera that can take portrait photo of yo mama.

[@jeffharris7777]

Ayyyeeee 😂

[@Seva98a]

you know this zooms in, not zooms out, so failed joke here

[@ojaysoraaz998]

Then we have to take yo mama to space and then take a picture 😂😂

[@nalzazlan]

@@Seva98a even when zoomed in yo mama be the size of planets bruh lmao

[@eyesonthey]

oh snap!

[@bengt_axle]

"Where do we save the images to? E drive is full. Again."

[@newmankidman5763]

Yes, where indeed :).

[@98f5]

Load it up with 50tb ruler drives like they're sd cards. Lol it scales up linearly like tiny sd card tiny camera, giant camera... giant flash storage

[@Tate525]

​@@98f5That will save about one image.

[@roseanneroseannadanna9651]

@@98f5 Speaking of flash.. what size will the flash bulb be?

[@98f5]

@@roseanneroseannadanna9651 blinding lol

[@idj20]

The bokeh effect at 10 feet away would be truly amazing.

[@milifileoto6742]

the focal length is probably way further then that

[@sahilx4954]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@romb1818]

​@@milifileoto6742 10 feet... "years" 😁😁😉

[@stevenattaway]

IDK, Maybe you should have also made the world's largest lens cap and put it over the front glass.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

But then they might forget to take it off and ruin the whole vacation. LOL! But seriously, that's actually a good idea. That is a clean room they're in, but still even a single spec of dust could ruin an image.

[@flightographist]

There is a thin exterior filter on it, you can see light reflecting off of it at 1:26 and also the mounting ring connectors.

[@stomp2162]

Of course, the world’s largest lens also has the world’s largest lens cap. Over 5’ across and “only” 40 lbs

[@deang5622]

Why do you need a lens cap? There is nothing but light going to touch the lens.

[@flightographist]

@@deang5622 There is no lens, you see a sensor hood with a protective filter. this is a direct imaging camera- only a shutter and the sensor array.

[@qpwoeiruty108]

2:09 "two different shades of blue" i see like 5-7

[@genephipps6421]

Yeah I was like WTH?

[@romb1818]

Maube it was "too" different, not "two" 😁😉

[@tommymichalski9989]

Spotting a golfball 15 miles away? I leave it for the early adapters and gonna sit this out and wait for v2.

[@uriituw]

If your golfball is that far away, maybe it’s best just to take a penalty stroke and use a new golfball.

[@devarmont87]

It doesn't sound impressive aye, since galaxies are a little further than 15miles away. Maybe wait for V3

[@mikeomolt4485]

​@@devarmont87Imagine a golf ball 15 miles away, not on the ground but in the night sky. If your telescope can detect that, stars and galaxies of similar relative size and scale would be detectable as well.

[@ryanjohnson3615]

@@uriituwAgree. It would probably be a bit misshaped after that drive anyway.

[@gregvisioninfosoft]

i doubt its designed to focus at 15 miles. its probably a relative arc-sec equivalence.

[@Psycandy]

'the lenses are there to focus different wavelengths of light' - only when correcting lens aberration. Mirrors don't have this effect, which is why they are used, so the camera lenses are essentially there to allow a massive array to capture an area much smaller than itself. THAT is _why_ lenses are used, as opposed to mirrors.

[@BoazAfful]

A 5-second video will occupy 10 GB of space.

[@oberonpanopticon]

The data processing for this thing is gonna be interesting, that’s for sure. But if they can make the LHC work with however many petabytes of data that thing generates, I’m sure they can manage this too.

[@traktor321]

more like 1/100 of a second

[@98f5]

10gb if it's compressed down to garbage lol. They said they gonna make a 10 year movie with it. That's gonna be a thousand petabytes or something ridiculous

[@gthakur17]

still cant see X button on ad

[@panda4247]

to be honest, the ending was kind of underwhelming, I was expecting it to go to space to avoid being obscured by the atmosphere...

[@oberonpanopticon]

The thing already costs $680 million and you want to put it in space???

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

It's waaaaaay too big to put into space. The mirror is like 3x the size of Web and JWST already had to be folded to get it into space, this has much higher resolution also. They serve different purposes.

[@homuchoghoma6789]

@@bobbygetsbanned6049 Самая большая камера ??? А как же Хаббл в 2015 году делал снимок Андромеды разрешением в 4.3 гигапикселя ???

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

@@homuchoghoma6789 I don't know the official megapixel rating for Hubble but it was launched in 1990, and from what I can find online it's more like 15 megapixels. Most likely the image you're talking about is a bunch of pictures stitched together, which is how the Hubble deep field image was made. So the image would have a high pixel count but the actual camera is much lower.

[@Snow.2040]

@@homuchoghoma6789 Because Hubble didn’t take one picture, hubble’s field of view is way too narrow to fit the andromeda galaxy so NASA made a mosaic out of many pictures lined up next to each other which is why it is so high resolution.

[@alexdenton6586]

I need that on the next Xiaomi

[@MetaView7]

They already have it in the Huawei.

[@doodskie999]

See a golfball from 15 miles away? Pffft CSI already had this tech 20 years ago, they can even zoom in a fingerprint on a hammer 😂

[@panner11]

The trick about this camera is that it can see the golf ball without zooming in. It's the size of the image that's special, not the detail in zooming.

[@DS127]

@@panner11 They're joking. Look up the CSI "enhance" meme.

[@ScoutSniper3124]

Great, are they available on Amazon? I've got a vacation coming up.

[@walterlol]

Does it have bokeh though?

[@Finallybianca]

Omg only at a dof of 3 light years

[@EyesOfByes]

Good thing with mosaic, easier to upgrade

[@ralanham76]

And disable the malfunctioning parts if needed

[@DemPilafian]

The camera is for a telescope in a space observatory. Its diameter should be given in meters not feet. The distance in resolving an item should be given in kilometers not miles. Even in America we use metric for space stuff. Please don't dumb it down for us Americans. We are smarter than you think.

[@keithputnam8911]

😂

[@frizzlefry17]

Are we really?

[@DemPilafian]

@@frizzlefry17 Are you in a STEM field?

[@CraigChrist8239]

As an American I'd prefer if they measured the distance in football fields. The diameter should be measured in elephants

[@DemPilafian]

@@CraigChrist8239 That's fine. Football fields and elephants are just frames of reference to spice up writing and storytelling. An elephant is neither imperial nor metric.

[@ukar69]

Does it have a Canon mount or do I need an adapter?

[@mikerodix4800]

Sold separately of course

[@thexanderthemander]

But can it see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

[@millenialfalcon8243]

So... ZWO SeeStar 1500 Pro? Where can I buy one?

[@blckwaterpark]

extremely excited!

[@homuchoghoma6789]

Ты родился весной и первый раз увидел снег зимой ? Телескоп Хаббл еще 9 лет назад снял Андромеду в 4.3 гигапикселя )) Загугли )

[@thomasbeach7436]

I just watched a trailer for a movie that I probably won't live long enough to see. Bummer.

[@Talia.777]

What was it? 😯

[@oberonpanopticon]

Do you have a terminal disease? The thing goes online in 2025 and begins full operations in 2027

[@thomasbeach7436]

@@oberonpanopticon The movie will take TEN YEARS to complete. I guess you didn't pay attention. Yes I have a terminal disease. It's called old age.

[@vimalramachandran]

We've some amazing instruments coming online this decade, both in space and on the ground. They will revolutionize astronomy & cosmology.

[@sylviaflores-q6b]

That for sure, not doubt about that ❤

[@dougiefresh007209]

thought LSST was Large Synoptic Survey Telescope ? and it will perform the Legacy Survey of Space and Time smh

[@IvanRodriguez-tl2zr]

Christopher Nolan: I'll take your entire stock!

[@eewilson9835]

I am a graduate with honors in Space and Time.

[@Schumacher73]

What it will further add to JWST??

[@sylviaflores-q6b]

As a Chilean citizen I’m so proud that this amazing wonderful project will be launched in my country. You people are so talented and inspiring to all human kind. My most sincere thanks.🩷💙💜🌙❤️🌟🌈🌈🌈🌈

[@M8YM8]

Can I borrow this for some “selfies”, need to make some things look bigger 😂

[@homuchoghoma6789]

пенис? )

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

The camera was tested for 20 years before getting to this point. How much has digital photography advanced in that time? A lot! Still, it will be interesting to see the results.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

It has been planning AND engineering AND testing over 20 years (said at 0:20) and not just tested over 20 years. So it's not like this camera was built 20 years ago and has been tested ever since.

[@petergrandien1440]

The high cost is due to maintenance work for 20 years on the building its housed in 😂

[@deang5622]

It doesn't matter how much digital photogrphyvhas advanced in that time. This camera is bigger in terms of pixel count than every other spaced based camera before it. You just can't take commercial digital SLR cameras and put them into space. And you can't scrap this project and say "we'll start from scratch and use newer digital imaging chips and technology as that will then add another ten years to the project...and if you do that, your same argument applies, during that time digital photography has moved on and you will be expecting them to abandon the project again. If you keep on applying that logic, the camera will never make it into space.

[@panda4247]

The consumer-grade digital photography advanced in different areas. Like, making the sensors smaller - which is not the point here, they need it big because they need to capture the distant light sources which are feint, so you want to capture as much light as possible. And it mostly advanced in software like, the SW used for autofocus, color corrections (white balance etc), which is presumably mostly irrelevant (the focus will be set to infinity constantly and the colors shown to public in space photos are not real anyway) Some of the aspects are basically the same as 20 years ago - unless there was some breakthrough in glass-making process, then making the lenses is no different. I would say the 20 years was mostly bureaucracy (getting the funds, vendor contracts, etc), then engineering and prototyping, and the sensors might have been manufactured recently (they might have used smaller or fewer for proofs of concept in the meantime)

[@zoeherriot]

Actually - not that much. Most of the innovations have been in areas that are not that important for something like this - i.e. video, auto focus speed, sensor read out speed. I have images from a 20 year old digital camera that are pretty damn good even by todays standards.

[@patpatpat999]

How cutting edge can a camera be that took 20 years to build?

[@profpuffofficial2]

validation against ISOs

[@patpatpat999]

@@profpuffofficial2 I have seen systems built for the USAF. By time it went operational, cpus and OSs were about 4 generations behind. I worked on one recently were we just upgraded from XP 2 years ago.

[@Snow.2040]

Everything that makes this cutting edge could be done 20 years ago, it is just that no one did it.

[@cptairwolf]

So that's why Samsung calls their cellphone the galaxy ;)

[@you2be839]

"... can spot a golf ball 15 miles away"... Finally, Yeti and UFOs have got no chance now, it's game over!

[@oberonpanopticon]

Unfortunately Sasquatches and martians know where every camera on earth is, and know exactly how far away they have to be in order to appear suitably blurry

[@ATomRileyA]

@@oberonpanopticon Plot twist they have cloaking tech like the predator and have been trolling us the whole time :)

[@Extile00]

They should put this in space instead but the data transfer is probably too slow including other factors.

[@duran9664]

🤦‍♀️ 20 yrs old camera 🤦‍♀️ That means old tech 🤦‍♀️ What a waste 🤦‍♀️

[@JazzinBlues]

A bit surprised to see a mechanical shutter.

[@ajkulac9895]

He said they started building it 20 years ago

[@milleniumfalcon8654]

Excellent!👌👍 can't wait,just purchased a Samsung Galaxy AO5

[@HailAzathoth]

I mean thats only 15x bigger than the 3x5mm sensor in my phone.....

[@Shivaho]

Hope you got tons of storage space that's expandable...

[@iamhawkeye3162]

A golf ball from 15 miles away is impressive but that pales in comparison to the universes size

[@davidkymdell452]

Billions of galaxies, but will it be able to get all of Sydney Sweeney in one shot?

[@Zigazaga420]

Now to build the world biggest finger to block the lens

[@manjus2273]

Still not big enough to take a picture of yo momma

[@tigertiger1699]

Nice… man I like $ spent on space exploration …. Gets us all further from the cave👍👍👍🙏🙏

[@iamyers02]

Now we can finally take a picture of yo momma

[@Nodrama92]

Finally a camera to make a picture of your mum

[@denispol79]

The best thing about this camera - during it's first year it will most probably discover planet 9.

[@wco3095]

You can finally take a picture of yo mamma

[@joshualoh6550]

But does it have dual SD card slots?

[@RV-of2in]

I’m going to bet any photos it unexpectedly takes of UFO / UAP’s will still be blurry and out of focus 😂

[@babybirdhome]

Oh wow, so this one isn’t going into space? That’s really amazing because it means they’re going to have to remove the atmosphere through software post-processing! Technology has come so far!!!

[@oberonpanopticon]

Iirc most of the atmospheric distortions can be filtered out via adaptive optics

[@peteb901]

@@oberonpanopticon Adaptive optics won 't be used for this but it will employ 4 wavefront sensors (Wiki)

[@DJIronChef]

Im hype, even if it takes a long long time. We may never truely see the full expanses of our universe in this lifetime, but I hope we go beyond the stars one day.

[@ButchNews]

Infinity is a long way away. Are we there yet?

[@alphagt62]

They say the observable universe is much smaller than the actual universe. Which means we will never see it. The galaxies beyond our view are moving away faster than the speed of light, so it seems unlikely that we will ever catch up.

[@zunedog31]

There are more planets in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

[@ButchNews]

@@zunedog31 Yup.

[@nickdrums-zi8ep]

@@zunedog31 people always reference this as if its some astounding fact. Really doesn't seem that hard to believe

[@Yeskos]

Galaxy s100 zoom: milky way Galaxy

[@jayytee8062]

But does it have red eye reduction?

[@andreirachko]

Hey CNET, what music track did you use for this video? I love it, but Shazam isn’t picking up anything. I’d appreciate it so much if you told me! Thanks!

[@andreirachko]

From 0:32 and for about a minute.

[@musobalawrence1466]

Every now and they launch a gigantic piece of technology claiming it's gonna peer into the past, hailing it as a major breakthrough. But after a few years service again another piece is hailed as wonderful and launched! And whatever pictures are captured are not different from those captured 30 years ago!

[@stringercorrales6627]

/p/ will still talk crap about it.

[@tomholroyd7519]

I love how even supposedly smart people still don't understand how masks work. 2:02

[@RetroCrisis]

Imagine taking a selfie with that

[@WishIhadacabinonthemoon]

Think you would have to stand 15 miles away! lol

[@mr.morales0707]

I smell a knew Samsung co up

[@crazykhespar8487]

Higher resolution in the visible light spectrum ≠ seeing farther than ever before. Thats what JWST is for.

[@SegoJordania]

Imagine if that camera put on a lower orbit!?? how amazing pictures we would received!!

[@GokuLevelKi]

The sensors being manufactured from two different companies will cause problems

[@eyeque7]

They should hire you as the project manager

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

I have a feeling they considered that. You might wanna send them an urgent email to check though.

[@eyeque7]

@@bobbygetsbanned6049 yeah for sure they did. I mean, they must have never thought of that and he just figured it all out.

[@TickyTack23]

Why?

[@xenos5028]

Andy Altman 😂😂😂

[@RichardsWorld]

I have one of these on order. It should be a great selfie camera.

[@hatimofficewala6152]

Waiting for live telecast from that camera

[@gingery3k]

jawes webb says, too late

[@Sirsantos]

send it to space

[@jezza6575]

Shake it like a Polaroid picture…

[@MadDragon75]

Move over IMAX

[@benitomoralesjr1142]

For spies.

[@thehumancanary131]

Boring! The nearest star would take 160,000 years to visit and return - at the fastest speed yet achieved by a spacecraft. It's only 4.3 light years away! Why don't we spend this development money on buying KFC & McDonalds for everyone?

[@jc-hd3ih]

But can it see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

[@TempleScoop]

I saw this on another page a month ago.

[@JackMooney]

I thought Unregistered Hypercam 2 was the world's most powerful digital camera

[@ButchNews]

The day f stops became redundant. Now, if we could only persuade blue and red to focus on the same spot we're good to go.

[@kenpompo7722]

typical nasa crap, they make it sound good at first and when its time to release images or video to the public is either blurry of manipulated, not the real thing.

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

Can you say "spy camera"?

[@ronchappel4812]

So how it this better than the bigger telescopes we already have? Is it because it can cover much more area quickly(while still capturing fine detail)?

[@oberonpanopticon]

Bingo

[@Tagraff]

I envision a 360 gigantic camera simultaneously.

[@evropej]

How can you image a universe when every single object is temporally specially displaced?

[@MrWolynski]

They still after dark matter and dark energy? I guess its one of those things that has become real simply because everyone believes it.

[@ChrisWashburn]

It took 20 years to make? Judging by how this video was edited I'd say they're about the same age.

[@helmanfrow]

If this has been in development for 20 years, how current is the imaging technology? Sensors have come a long way in two decades. I suppose this is a tradeoff with any project of such magnitude.

[@Neftegna]

It took them 20 years to build it and it will take another 20 years to send it to the universe

[@kilroy987]

If it can't see a donut on the moon, then it can't take a clear picture of the Sag A* black hole. Sadge.

[@bondandng]

I don't get it. If the sensors are so specialized, why isn't the color the same? So what's the point of being 'so specialized'?

[@KurtQuad]

I think you’re missing the point. The colour of the sensor are just part of the manufacturing process - it has no bearing on the actual performance. It’s specialized because less than a handful of companies have the capability to make it.

[@ArmchairWatchmaker]

I think, they were manufactured on different production lines. Also I expect slightly different image brightness between all sensors, as always, so the picture looks like a checkerboard. But you can always explain it to the customer like "you see, each sensor is slightly different and we've adjusted them for maximum sensivity so you can see all possible details". 🤣

[@bondandng]

​@@KurtQuad Thanks for explaining. I do understand that. What I am asking is, if the process and the procedures are the same, how can the result be different?

[@pauloakes6952]

@@bondandngpoor quality control.

[@bayraktarx1386]

Speed and performance of your car won't change if it's blue or green.

[@christhompson6010]

Lol....golf ball 15 miles away? should be more like and atom 15 miles away that's how much distance we're talking about

[@truejim]

Fun fact: if we wanted to image the Earth from space, with a single photo, down to 1m resolution…we’d need a camera with about 130 terapixels. So it’d have to be about 40,000 times more pixels than this camera. That’d make that future camera be about 200 times wider than this camera. If historical camera trends were to continue (which is a big if) it’ll take about 30 years for cameras to become so big that they could image the entire Earth down to 1 meter with a single photo.

[@bozhidarmihaylov]

Where’s the Beastie Boys soundtrack? Intergalactic.. :)

[@inyourgenes]

Amazing how the clever people in our society can create such tools. These intellects are the driving force to propel our civilisation forward......yet "celebrity" entertainers get all the admiration from the today's >30 years old

[@ernestominos]

Quiero esa cámara en mi iPhone 😊

[@mrmustard-mp6ij]

Holy crap they actually made WonkaVision! They even got the suits! Where's Mike Teavee?

[@GenericSpace]

Trash They built it in a hurry. That means finances controlled a lot of their decisions. That means parts WILL wear out at different times from each other and need to be replaced but because those parts are so "specialized" and won't be made the same again, they'll need to be replacing entirely assemblies rather than just a part or two. All of that means that when a part finally goes out on this lens - that's it. The lens is dead. Well-done California, as always, well done. ~smh~ All CA knows how to do is waste money.

[@WilliamNeacy]

Can't see something that you know is there? Just build a bigger camera. Still can't see it? Take pictures of your food?!?

[@brucewane6282]

after 20 years and it's still sitting there.

[@kpnitrl38]

Not impressed.. a golf ball really? 15 miles. That's nothing compared to the distance of objects in space.

[@rehabengineering476]

Puzzled that the presentation uses so many animations that show rapidly moving versions of nebula and orbits. Motion in the stars is painfully slow overall. This camera will not capture a galaxy spinning in any perceivable way. True, some object do orbit very fast near blackholes and large gravity objects. But most celestial motion requires monthes of viewing to note any change in our slow frame of reference. Very exciting astronomical camera project though, and will collect enormous data on those slow motions.

[@ChipsChallenge95]

These developments cycles are so long that by the time they deliver the project it’s already obsolete. If they could spec for 3.2 gp 20+ years ago imagine what they could do now

[@urbanshadow777]

The size of the files coming of the nikon d810 16bit uncompressed give me ptsd. I can't imagine what the file sizes are gonna be like off this camera.