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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+71WORLDS MOST ADVANCED CAMERA INVENTED. And whats the first thing we use it for.... porn -_-
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+61Yeah just too bad they zoomed in on the wrong part of the image.
- da_bradler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45This is a link to a image cropped and cropped and croppend and... etc until people that are a mere one or two pixels in the orginal image fill the entire frame. enjoy and man do I want one of these cameras.
A few facts:
This is a large format camera it captures images on a photographic plates that is 356 millimeters square (sure kicks the ***** out of my 35 mm camera eh) (9-inch-by-18-inch) It's the same format used in military spy planes like the U-2.
"The gigapixel camera lenses were custom-designed and cut by a specialist he knew from his defense contracting days, who is more accustomed to making optics for military systems."
"Simple arithmetic tells us that, to display 1000 megapixels to its best advantage requires a print of at least 50 square feet. Prints of this size are commonplace in the context of billboards... which is referred to as over-sampling. Meanwhile, the 1000-megapixel images which are of interest to ourselves are defined as images that REQUIRE 1000 megapixels for their reproduction;"
Every picture takes up an entire DVD
they try to shoot right after a downpour when particulates have been washed out of the air. then tries to get off the ground as much as they can, to minimize heat distortion.
The images are scanned with a Leica Geosystems scanner, a special scanner used in geoscience surveys and by NASA for space imaging.scanners capture about 4 gigapixels of data, which corresponds perfectly to the resolution of the film. It is neither over-sampling nor under-sampling the film: There is a one-to-one correspondence.
sources: http://www.gigapxl.org/technology-content.htm and http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,66498-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2 - Zarks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Here's a gigapixel picture you can actually zoom into and control:
http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm
When it's fully zoomed out you can just about make out a spire in the middle on the horizon. When zoomed in you can easily read the time on the same tower. - yensed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Wow! I may live in oregon, But in a few years, I'll be able to see Paris Hiltons house with out Google Earth!
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+194.7 Gigabytes
8 Gigs (9.4) is a dual layer DVD. - daven1986, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16oh that is just amazing, some excellent pictures there - wish i could download the full versions
- jdkane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Forget the pervs in the picture. So what was the Gigapixel guy doing at a nude beach? He admitted he got "well defined cherubs" on film. Ha Ha. People are funny.
- mongrel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16One day, this will fit into our pockets.
- Settra, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19cry?
- JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9keep in mind they shoot onto film, not digital, so this can't be used directly for unmanned photo satellites. I bet the film is pretty expensive too. What we need is a 9x18ccd. Then we'd be in business.
- ismith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The camera isn't expensive; the glass is (lens). I would save so much time though, in one photo and an hour of cropping I could have a full photoset :P
Sucks that they don't show the entire file. - leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I wish they would release a torrent of at least one of their pictures.
Otherwise we really don't get to enjoy them. - tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8That has more to do with the lenses than it does to do with the plates or the film.
- greatromance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Seriously, how many times have I seen this one hit the front page since digg started? 6? 7?
- rende, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6just worked it out.. for those who are interested.
4mega pixel is 2000x2000 res if it was square
and squareroot of 4gigapixels gives us a res of about 63245x63245
i hope my math is correct.. cause thats insanely big. - aNoble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5My grandparents used to have a home right near Torrey Pines. You always saw people hang gliding there.
Here's a google maps link to the approximate location of the shot:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=del+mar,+ca&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=32.890336,-117.25208&spn=0.006721,0.017853&t=k&om=1 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The author of the Wired article was confusing Gigapixels and Gigabytes. Each of these 4 Gigapixel images, at 16-bits per color component, takes up 24GB uncompressed.
- al28p, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yeah it is, but the pictures are still amazing.
- capstinence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I completely agree. This thing is so old. It's cool, but I mean, come on, post something original.
- thescimitar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's worth noting that since the "Gigapxl" projects uses a film camera (re: not a digital camera), it's not actually the largest production format ever created. Polariod made five 20" x 24" cameras, all of which are still in use today. And yes, it would shoot instant polaroids.
You can check it out here: http://www.polaroid.com/studio/20x24/index.html
The prints are fairly magnificent. - inactive, on 07/30/2008, -2/+5Thats one hell'of a cam.
- Necraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would be amazing for there to be digital pictures with this resolution. While the camera would still be insanely expensive, the cost of each picture would be drastically less. I wonder if there are any pictures of nearly this resolution (Obviously not this high, as the bandwidth costs would be astronomical) to look around on online.
- enrlover, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3well worth a digg. at first i thought those were sharp shooters or something. hah.
- cviebrock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Zarks
That zoomable image is actually a composite photograph. They mounted a camera on a computer-controlled servo to control pitch, etc., took a bunch of pictures, then stitched them together. You can tell by zooming in on the bus about half way down the big road in the middle of the picture. It's a bus! It's a car!
The images from TFA are taken all at once, AFAIK. - lowerlogic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6It would kick ass to have Gigapixel cyborg eyes. Vision 2.0
- VashTSPD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dugg not only because it's very neat but for a direct link, not to someone's blog with ads. thank you!
- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This was in popular sience like a year ago.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2and new pictures are added often
- gotpaint547, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i live near the beach... blacks is a great place to surf
i never thought they would come photo graph that glider port - CyberGlitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As far as the space these pictures take up, their FAQ section reveals "Incidentally, a four billion pixel, uncompressed, 16-bit per component image is a 24 gigabyte data file."
Trying to load a picture of that size would freeze most conventional PCs. - marciot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
This is very cool, but it would be cooler if they teamed up with Google (or some other company) and offered real-time zooming, a la Google Maps. That would be absolutely mind blowing. The triton.nl link provided by Zarks in an above post shows exactly what I mean, but the picture there isn't nearly as nice as the ones on the gigapxl site.
The good news is that I believe its only a matter of time until it happens -- the gigapxl people already did the *hard* part -- someone just needs to donate a hell of a lot of storage and bandwidth.
-- Marcio - RCFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That one that you can zoom in on is amazing.... I could easily read the license plates of the cars.
- gigarizil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw his prints in San Diego, that is the best way to view this type of image. Would be nice if he put them on-line like http://www.xrez.com/
- danneyboey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Old, but cool. Nekkid people on the beach.
- innershock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0am i the only one that thought of conan?
"what in the world!?!"
i kept expecting to see some random ***** once they got to full magnification..
..yeah, i know conan's version zooms out but still.. - unre4l, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Yay now we can spy on beach pervs all over the world, rejoice!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3This has been posted many times, cool none the less!
- comradeTJH, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1hooooly.... what a challenge for the lenses!
- sweetnjguy29, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3stfu! lol! l00k p0n13s!
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Why does every sentence have to have a smiley or "lol" after it? What, was the author worried that the words "direct link" were going to be misinterpreted? And why even write "direct link" anyway since every submission should be a direct link?
- JayoxD, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3its amazing how they could zoom so much and yet the quality is still as good as a 3megapixel camera :)
- nufoto, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1LOL.... view camera makes digg front page! old Tech gets a new life!
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Wow. Is today duplicate story day? This is the 2nd duplicate I've seen
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1that is amazing 0_0
Why havent normal cameras reached like 50 megapixel yet though? - mastertop, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Couldn't we ever use this as a.. microscope ?
- pcheaven2k, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1Mommy I want one of those, then I could take a Gigapxl picture of my prick and maybe get laid then.
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2one picture they say it fills up one DVD...so figure that's 8 gigabyte for one picture....
- Tosawyer, on 10/12/2007, -26/+10wow this is a seriously old story!
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4LOL
i wonder what a naked person would look like when taken with that camera?
also can we say group orgy at 4 gigapixels? -
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