The display in the Sphere, the new fully immersive entertainment venue off the strip in Las Vegas, dwarfs the requirements of IMAX or Giant Screen 3D. It’s a wrap-around design for the 516 feet wide by 366 feet spherical building. The definition of 16k x 16k makes it the highest-resolution LED screen on the planet. Now there’s a new camera that can shoot native footage – Sphere’s Big Sky camera. Let’s look at the details. The camera is called Big Sky, developed in-house at Sphere Studios in Burbank, California, and it features the most extensive single sensor available commercially. According to Sphere, you would need 10-15 cinema cameras to provide a similar performance. Sphere Studio’s Big Sky camera carries the largest sensor commercially available. Image: Sphere Studios. The Sphere’s Big Sky big specs The Sphere’s Big Sky camera sensor has 316 megapixels, is a square format at 3 inches x 3 inches across, and is natively HDR. Performance is capable of a 40X resolution increase over today’s 4K cameras. It can capture up to 120 frames per second in the 18K square format and higher speed frame rates at lower resolutions. Sphere has avoided camera array stitching problems such as near-distance limitations and post-production time. Sphere Studios has also developed image processing software to manage the uncompressed 60 fps RAW footage at 30 GB/s or 120 fps at 50 GB/s to its custom 32 TB media mags. The network throughput can cope with 600 GB/s. As for lenses for such...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 16 June, 2023