World's Largest Digital Camera The world's largest digital camera was unveiled last week at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The 340-million-pixel, $100-million (US)MegaPrime camera is roughly 100 times more powerful than a commercial digital camera, say its creators. The telescope's unusually broad field of view will allow the device to photograph huge panoramas. "This camera will allow us to do some unique stuff," says Christian Veillet, executive director for the telescope. For example, researchers plan to use the camera to look for the distant explosions of dying stars and also to observe the Kuiper belt, a ring of asteroid-like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.