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A 4,000 Megapixal Camera A recent Wired Magazine article describes a film camera, designed by physicist Graham Flint from spy plane and nuclear reactor parts, with a resolution of 4 gigapixels. The camera uses 9x18 inch photographic plates with a resolution of 4,000 pixels per inch. Images from the camera are scanned with a Leica Geosystems scanner, which produces 4 gigapixel digital images. Each image fills one DVD. "The images are printed in strips on a large-format Epson 9600 printer and mounted on panels like wallpaper." One print could measure up to 48x24 feet. Flint designed the camera to "photograph the entire Milky Way in color and very high resolution," but his New Mexico observatory was shut down for health reasons before he could begin that project. He now tours the United States making thousands of photographs of "cities, monuments and national parks." You can see more of his pictures at his Gigapxl Project website. (2005-02-07 15:35:09.0) Permalink Comments [1]