Gigapixel Photography Anyone?

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:56:12 +1100, Richard
<richard@hot-chilli.com.no.spam.au> wrote:

>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66498,00.html
>
>Physicist Graham Flint is working on an ultra-high-resolution portrait
>of America -- a series of gigantic, gigapixel images taken with a
>custom camera made from bits and pieces of decommissioned Cold War
>hardware.
>
>Wow... guess he's not using Compact Flash to store em...

He's using film.

"The gigapixel camera is very large format, using 9-inch-by-18-inch
plates. It's the same format used in military spy planes like the U-2.
In fact, Flint uses old spy plane film magazines. "It was surplused
out, and I bought up most of them (about a dozen)," Flint said.

Large rolls of Kodak film, used mostly for aerial photography and
geological surveys, cost $1,200 each. The film is
ultra-high-resolution -- 4,000 pixels per inch -- but on a square-inch
basis, it costs less than 35mm, Flint said. He cuts the film himself
and loads it onto the magazines. "
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"...who would you think is not a "future statist"?

"Any one who thinks the end game of the political
process is the abolition of the state and its
replacement with a free market for all the so
called functions of the state.
Any one less is in the end, a statist."

John A. Stovall
in tx.guns June 2004

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:56:12 +1100, Richard
<richard@hot-chilli.com.no.spam.au> wrote:

>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66498,00.html
>
>Physicist Graham Flint is working on an ultra-high-resolution portrait
>of America -- a series of gigantic, gigapixel images taken with a
>custom camera made from bits and pieces of decommissioned Cold War
>hardware.
>
>Wow... guess he's not using Compact Flash to store em...
>
It always amuses me when people rate an analog film by digital (pixel)
scale.