The Gigapixel Camera

[darby2]

For those who are into large format digital or film photography be sure to check out the Gigapxl.org web pages.


http://www.gigapxl.org/ [url]

The camera employs large format 9"x18" aerial colour negative film (in rolls) held in place by a vacuum during exposure. The colour negatives are then scanned to digital files, typically in the range of 1-4 Gigapixels, giving a resolution equivalent to looking through a pair of 12x binoculars.

The lens is something else too...an 8-element ultra wide angle 215mm Aysmmagon® specially designed for this camera.

There is currently an exibition of prints taken with it in Boca Raton, FL
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[heez10]

WoW

[pritchett]

You can see online results of this amazing technology. Look at this site. You can double click on any area of the photo and zoom in to an unbelievable degree and not loose any resolution! Try it. Truly amazing.

http://www.xrez.com/gallery/xRez_gallery.html

[madsox]

Ya just gotta love large format film work! And the technology they use to scan and manipulate those image, well, I can only echo a "wow!"

I think I'll dust off that old 6cm TLR and see how she runs, if I can scan those negs well I should get the equivalent of, what, 50+ megapixels? hmm...

anyway, back to work.

[jmphotography]

GIGAPIXELS!!!!????
All I need now is a 24mm F1.0 L and no more zoom lens's! Awesome!
heheee

[darby2]

[url][size=18]Now, for just about anyone with a digital cam[/url]era, a group from Carnegie-Mellon University in conjunction with NASA, Google and a few others will be releasing for commercial production in April a portable robotic platform called the GIGAPAN enabling your camera to take a series of photos in high resolution then stitching them together seamlessly into a huge panorama of up to 30 gigapixels

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/comme ... gapan.html

[darby2]

The Gigapan project is now going into beta testing stage and photographers from around the world have made application to become beta testers. Only a few will be chosen. Applications closed Oct 19 and those chosen will be advised by email shortly.

In the meantime have la look at some of the panoramas here:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/panorama_preview.html


http://gigapan.org/

Be sure to download the latest version of Google Earth 4.2 to be able to view these panoramas in conjunction with Google Earth images.

http://earth.google.com/