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350 Megapixel Camera

Posted by michael on Wednesday March 5, 2003 @01:04AM from the eight-by-ten-glossies dept.

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

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Filesize of the pictures by neur0maniak · 2003-03-05 01:32 · Score: 5, Interesting

Just imagine how big they'll be.. 350Mb(yes, megabits!) x 24bpp = 8.4Gb (Gigabits) = 1.05GB (Gigabytes). And that's without compression. How long would that take to compress, too?