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Ah, I was waiting for the surveillance example in the video... they didn't disappoint and it was the last example.

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Did I miss something? It was the only example! The video goes directly from

"Look at the high-res awesome awesomeness!" to

"Future Applications: Wide-area monitoring (a.k.a. video surveillance)"

EDIT: I find that depressing. Seriously? With tech like that, you can't at least come up with a more benign example? You really have to throw yourself at mayors and other hawks first?

You don't even need such a high-resolution sensor. At that level, you might as well have multiple cameras and stitch the results together.

And the military has already done it. See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

and here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

Sometimes the high-resolution sensor is used in place of a zoom lens (i.e., use "digital zoom" to 1:1). This way the camera's primary lens is simpler because it has a shorter focal length and there's less to break down. Can probably bring the costs down a little too.

Wikipedia seems to be confused here about the "unit cost" of Gorgon Stare (listed as $15M) and the "development cost" (also noted as $15M).

Or is Sierra Nevada Corp. really making the full cost in profit as of the second unit sold?!

Anyhow, those two examples are probably in a different price range, no?

Stadiums that serve alcohol use and need cameras like this. The Toronto Blue Jays have had issues with beer throwing idiots during post season games in 2015 and 2016. The incident in 2016 was particularly bad when a guy threw a full beer can at an Orioles outfielder during the wild card game.

Oh I never had any illusions of this not being used for surveillance. But that the manufacturer doesn't even try to frame it primarily as "look at the amazing photography you can make with this" is a sad sign of the times for me.

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