The GIGApixel camera...check this out
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The GIGApixel camera...check this out
Ok so here is the full frame of the image.
Now 25% of the original image. Note the people and the car on the ridge at the top right.
Zooming in to just 5% of the original image...you can sorta see the people..
Now one final zoom in to just 0.05% of the original image area:
So that's how much resolution there is in a gigapixel image. Look again at the original and see how huge of a panorama it covers, and then you can still see those individual people, even the chain-link fence they're standing near. That's a LOT of detail.
For info on how the camera actually works, check out www.gigapxl.org.
Now 25% of the original image. Note the people and the car on the ridge at the top right.
Zooming in to just 5% of the original image...you can sorta see the people..
Now one final zoom in to just 0.05% of the original image area:
So that's how much resolution there is in a gigapixel image. Look again at the original and see how huge of a panorama it covers, and then you can still see those individual people, even the chain-link fence they're standing near. That's a LOT of detail.
For info on how the camera actually works, check out www.gigapxl.org.
Last edited by MrFatbooty; Aug 21, 2005 at 09:05 AM.
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there have a been a bunch of this pictures going around the net for some time now. There is a city one, and a ocean side cliff/ocean one that i can remember.
The actual camera is HUGE!
The actual camera is HUGE!
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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. 
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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.
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.
Last edited by MrFatbooty; Aug 20, 2005 at 07:59 PM.
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