elcoyote
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I thought the digital photo buffs on the EXPO would appreciate this amazing camera and what the artist is doing. Detail like you've never seen! Check it out at http://gigapxl.org/
Gigapixel Camera
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DaveInDenver
Middle Income Semi-Redneck
elcoyote said:
This is so cool! FWIW, he's using film. Kodak SO-248 film that comes on 9.5" rolls in an Air Force K38 military surplus camera made by Fairchild for the U2. His negative would be 9"x18" with this camera. Probably scanning it on a Heidelberg drum scanner, which do at least 12,000 dpi. As awesome as this is, I bet we probably could look back to the Cold War to see where this originated...
flywgn
Explorer
DaveInDenver said:
My guess too. I had no idea what kind of camera was taking the pix we had to review (Oct '62) but we were reading clipboards from (?)miles in the air. Many years later a friend disclosed to me that he flew one of those birds. Small world. Made even smaller with digital photography.
Those photos are incredible. Thanks Mario.
Allen R
photoleif
Observer
i get about 90 megapixels out of my mamiya 6x7 and velvia 50. not nearly a gig, but it can be shown that for printing purposes, even a 4x5 and modern film is sufficient to print to *any* size. i'll leave it to folks more knowledgeable than i to explain CoC (circle of confusion) and such, but suffice it to say that if you want to view the entire image at once, you've got to step back a bit, and that allows it to be printed at a lower resolution (read: with less information). the point behind an ultra-high resolution camera imo, is to allow for an extremely sharp print that can be analyzed and enjoyed at any reasonable distance, from a foot to a few dozen yards. it also makes a great read to learn how they did it ;-)