While the Dutch are to be commended, we Americans have already been creating artistic 4 gigapixel photos in ONE exposure. I refer to "The Gigapxl Project" at http://gigapxl.com/. I have seen a huge print of the San Francisco skyline at the Albuquerque Museum and the detail was so real, it was surreal. I know one of the team members and briefly the camera is custom built and uses 9x18 inch Kodak's Aerocolor III type 2444 film. The vacumn film back is from a surplus U2 spyplane camera. The film is digitized using a mil-spec aerial film scanner. The Prints are from a very large format ink jet printer (Epsom I think). The lenses were custom designed, manufactured and individual lens element matched for an astro camera. Check out the Balboa Park scene sequence. Will blow you away.
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While the Dutch are to be commended, we Americans have already been creating artistic 4 gigapixel photos in ONE exposure. I refer to "The Gigapxl Project" at http://gigapxl.com/. I have seen a huge print of the San Francisco skyline at the Albuquerque Museum and the detail was so real, it was surreal. I know one of the team members and briefly the camera is custom built and uses 9x18 inch Kodak's Aerocolor III type 2444 film. The vacumn film back is from a surplus U2 spyplane camera. The film is digitized using a mil-spec aerial film scanner. The Prints are from a very large format ink jet printer (Epsom I think). The lenses were custom designed, manufactured and individual lens element matched for an astro camera. Check out the Balboa Park scene sequence. Will blow you away.