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Re: [Digital BW] Gigapixl Camera (WAS: Contax is not so toast !)

2005-03-17 by Anthony G. Atkielski

Stan McQueen writes:

> 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.

As the site itself makes clear, today there are not many practical uses
for photographs unless they are in digital form.  The image is captured
on film, but then it is scanned.  The utility of their technology
depends on the resolution of the scanned image.  It would be difficult,
for example, to expose 10x20-foot sheets of photographic paper with an
enlarger and then develop them.

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