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Gigapixl Camera (WAS: Contax is not so toast !)

2005-03-16 by Stan McQueen

That site seems a little strange. I shoot 4x5 and scan at 2000 ppi, but I
don't refer to my camera as an 80 megapixel camera. I scan 35mm at 4000 ppi,
but that doesn't make it a 24 megapixel camera. They're both film cameras.
It's the scanner that turns the silver into pixels.

Stan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Fields [mailto:picnic@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:01 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Contax is not so toast !



Oh, so you shoot with one of the Gigapixl cams???
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Anthony G. Atkielski
  To: Andy Graham
  Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Contax is not so toast !


  Andy Graham writes:

  > just out of curiousity......what "principles" would you be speaking
  > of?

  How about principles like these:

  http://www.gigapxl.org/gallery-SanDiegoNight.htm

  A single shot on film with four _billion_ pixels.  In a panorama of the
  San Diego skyline, you can see individual lampshades inside rooms at the
  hotels along the beach.  I'd love to see a twenty-foot-wide Duratrans of
  this image!

  An article in Wired today brags about a camera made with a scanning
  digital back that produces 144 megapixels.  Unfortunately, that's 40
  times smaller than the film image pointed to above.  And the digital
  image requires exposures lasting for minutes, whereas the film camera
  does it all in one brief exposure.

  Yup, I think I'll be shooting film for quite a bit longer!




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