1.4 Billion Pixels anyone?

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<p>Don't think I would fancy cleaning those with a swab.</P>

And just think, before ya know it, it'll be obsolete, and one with 2.8 billion pixels will be developed, and so on.

I will gladly take a 12MP cam if someone would put two 6 MP APS-C sized Sony CCDs in a DSLR.

 

Thank you.

During a casual search one day, I found this reference to a 500MP camera that can be built (it is claimed) for about $1300.

 

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~heidrich/Papers/EG.04.pdf

 

It is based on a regular commercial scanner. The most expensive item is a Nikkor 300mm large format lens ($600). The authors of the paper claim it could be used for documentary work by, for example, small museums who could not otherwise afford expensive equipment or professional services.

I am first on the waiting list. I was informed that actual availability would be sometime in 2037.

Check out http://www.gigapxl.org/ Defining the upper limits of large-format film photography, digital scanning and image processing, custom-built Gigapxl? 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.

Ach, the gearheads...

 

Well, this CCD is likely to be useful pretty much only for the purpose for which it is shown--astronomy.