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Robotic Camera Extension Takes Gigapixel Photos
schliz writes "Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a device that lets a standard digital camera take pictures with a resolution of 1-gigapixel (1,000-megapixels). The Gigapan is a robotic arm that takes multiple pictures of the same scene and blends them into a single image. The resulting picture can be expanded to show incredible detail."
After all, they do it all the time on CSI.
Where's the other 24 megapixels?
caveat: yes, i know. don't start. it was a joke. don't link to wikipedia to explain, besides; xkcd explained it better.
Yeah, it's a real shame that people don't take the time to find out every single idea anyone has ever had so they don't duplicate things. What a sad world.
I've been doing this for years with a film camera and then sticky-taping all the photos together. Then when i want to "zoom in" I just move my head closer to the picture.
For the 1000-megapixel porn industry.
-Nemo me impune lacessit-
How does this get modded insightful when it is nothing but a troll? Seriously Mods, the article doesn't talk anywhere about a patent. This is just some guy trolling trying to start some argument about something wholly unrelated to the use/interest of using a regular camera to get a higher resolution photo. No-one but the poster mentioned patents.
That's a troll. Look at it, see its warts and throw it back under the bridge it came from.
thats pretty amazing...
There is also a woman blowing a guy in one of the windows.
You know what they say, a month in the lab can often save an afternoon in the library.