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

2005-03-17 by Aleksandr Milewski

Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:
> 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.

Yet their "Technology" is that they built an aerial camera, and are 
doing the conversion from the aerial film's unique characteristic curves 
to something more "photographic" in software.

This beast has been at the center of a phenomenal hype machine, but 
there is nothing new here.

-Z

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