We Need a 16K 580,000 Sq Ft Monitor for BS vs GFX vs FF vs APSC Blind Testing

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We Need a 16K 580,000 Sq Ft Monitor for BS vs GFX vs FF vs APSC Blind Testing

Since Teresa won't let me buy a big printer (nor will she let me hang a big print of one of my masterpieces) and 6K at 32 inches is not enough for me to fully enjoy the awesome power of my GFX 100 cameras, I want to ask her if we can install a Sphere. The problem is, it is bigger than our entire condo building.

The internal (160,000 sq ft) and external (580,000 sq ft) screens rely on a collection of 27 nodes, each streaming at 4K through Hitachi Vantara's software, with a whopping 4 Petabytes (1 Petabyte = 1000 TB) of flash memory capable of 400 GB/s speeds. Full 4:4:4 chroma subsampling is also used, and reportedly, the displays can achieve a latency of around five milliseconds or less.

My only problem will be building a desktop that can handle 16K not at 32 inches (like you guys all need) but at 160,000 or 580,000 square feet. And how did they get 400 GB/s? They must be using some advanced industrial RAID-like array that we don't know about.

Check the article out. Apparently, they are developing a camera for this monster called the Big Sky (BS).

DPR needs to get their hands on the BS prototype and let's see if on a blind test GFX can match the BS on IF (image fidelity) on a blind test.

I bet you on a true blind test GFX is just as good as BS on IF and you guys don't need to buy BS.

Now I wonder, if all 30 of us who post fairly regularly on this forum could rent this Sphere and have the gurus who run it set up a blind test for us to enjoy (and argue about for the next 3 years)....

We all get inside the Sphere, and I will start the gala affair with a one-hour lecture on the virtues of new camera equipment ownership and how important it is to invest in new monitor tech and view your GFX and Hassy files at 32 inches. I will then take questions and answers while we sip or wine and stare at the ceiling. And then, the Sphere Chief Scientist takes over and announces:

"Welcome to the Great Unwashed Masses of DPR to our first ever 16K Sphere Blind Testing of BS vs GFX vs Leica Q3 vs Fuji X. We will show you sets of images at 16K on our 160,000 sq ft 16K screen using several sets of identical shots from the BS, 100 II, Q3 and XT-5 at equivalent apertures and 28mm (FF equivalent) and you will enter on the tablet we gave you which one is which (BS, MF, FF or APSC) for each set and which image in each set has the best Image Fidelity (IF). We will do this ten times with ten different sets of various types of images. Thank You."

LOL. Guys, check this out and read the comments from the dude that did some math.... I bet Jim can find error in his calculations.

The Sphere in Las Vegas features 4PB of flash memory at 400 GB/s to deliver 16K content | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

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