Monster CCD Sensor Has 111 Million Pixels

 

Wow. This is going to make one heck of a camera for a telescope. I can see a market for these with medium and large format camera users. A sensor this size would make a nice replacement for a film back on a 4×5 view camera.

Dalsa Semiconductor has fabricated an image sensor with more than 111 million pixels. The company claims the 4 x 4-inch charge-coupled device, configured as 10,560 x 10,560 pixels, is the world’s highest-resolution image sensor and the first to break the 100 million-pixel barrier.

EETimes.com – Record CCD image sensor has 111 million pixels