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Gigapxl Project Redefines Large Format Camera

Posted by TimSlavin at February 9, 2005

"Defining the upper limits of large-format photography, digital scanning and image processing, custom-built Gigapxl&tm; cameras capture images with unprecedented resolution. It would take a video wall of 10,000 television screens or 600 prints from a professional digital SLR camera to capture as much information as that contained in a single Gigapxl™ exposure. The Project's near-term goal is to compile a coast-to-coast portrait of America; photographing her cities, parks and monuments in exquisite detail. A longer term goal is to create for future generations a world-wide archive of vanishing cultural and archaeological sites."

Gigapxl has some amazing images so far although many of them are tourist shots on steroids. A shot of a San Diego beach, for example, shows not only hang gliders but also guys with long lens binoculars spying on nude bathers on the beach. The latter, however, is not shown on the site. Found through a Wired magazine article.
URLs:

http://www.gigapxl.org/


http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66498,00.html

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