350 Megapixel Camera

Remy Hathaway writes "Ars Technica just posted an article on the "MegaCam", a 350 megapixel camera. The original story is from the Honolulu Advertiser."

Comments

Re:Filesize of the pictures

[lfourrier]

I think we need some breakthrough in technology. I've heard about some technic using a silver based substrat. The file is written in parallel, using some light encoding. Total writing of the file can take as little as 1/1000 second. Calculate the througput, it is very impressing. Compression is lossy, and it is more similar to cd-r than to cd-rw, and long term stability is not guaranted. But give it a few years, and I'm sure we will have a solution derived from this principle.

Re:oops

[Anonymous Coward]

"It's called mageprime in both articles"

its name changes by the minute... what next? "mepagrime"? "grimey pap"? "papery gimp"? "preppy game"?

Re:oops

[Anonymous Coward]

"Megaprime"? Wasn't he one of the Transformers?

Re:oh my...

[jzs9783]

but then those pictures of Britney Spears having sex with a donkey while spanking Natalie Portman's ass will actually be clear!!!

Re:Filesize of the pictures

[Idarubicin]

Not only that, but it could readily be made compatible with a large installed base of legacy technology.

Megaprime

[Strange Ranger]

So Optimus Prime can take pictures during battle?

350 megapixels really is More Than Meets The Eye.

how many LOCs?

[snot whistle]

how many LOCs per cubic hectare per fortnight is that? imagine a beowulf cluster of THESE babys! what a great day for pr0n! in soviet russia, they take pictures of you!! all of your pixel are belong to us! (this post is just a lameness filter test)