Well yeah, but if you say "pixel" in the title it gets more people to pay attention since they think yer talkin bout digital high tech stuff. h:

Yes I know they're basically using an old military spy camera re-engineered to shoot 18x9 negatives instead of 12x9 and using a custom made lens, with the negs scanned at some ridiculously high resolution and printed out with some kinda large format printer.

I believe the reason cited was that while there was plenty of information contained in a large format film, getting the kind of resolution seen here is impossible with any sort of enlarger lens. Who knows.

Cool bits: they use a Nikon F2 with a 14mm rectilinear fisheye lens as a "viewfinder" and shoot the same shots on both 35mm and large format so they can see what the general image will look like. Then they have a rifle scope mounted to the thing as well so they can see if the wind is blowing enough to induce a bit of shake into the camra on its huge tripod.

I thought this was interesting though, in the technical section of the site there was a passing mention that 35mm film is capable of producing maybe a 12 megapixel image. Which means perhaps that there's not much point in me scanning my 35mm film at the full 4000 dpi the scanner is capable of (produces a 19mp image).

I was thinkin recently about picking up a Yashicamat 124G TLR to do the medium format thing but I don't think a Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED can accept anything bigger than 35mm negs.