jeff_martin2

<p>Hi,<br>

I am the photographer who made the London 80 Gigapixel image.<br>

It has been a long time since I posted here, so let me say that it's nice to have my work mentioned here. Thanks!<br>

This image was not shot on film. Brian M, where on earth did you see any reference to the idea that it was shot on film? It was shot on a canon 550d.<br>

80 gigapixels refers to how many pixels are in the image. You might be familiar with the word "megapixel" which is used to quantify the number of pixels captured by digital cameras. A one megapixel image is 1000x1000 pixels. This London image is 400,000 x 200,000 pixels.<br>

The size limit of images in photoshop is 300,000 x 300,000 pixels (not 32k x 32k) so yes, this did present some challenges.<br>

thanks,<br>

Jeffrey Martin / Founder / www.360cities.net</p>

<p>ps.<br>

On a totally unrelated note, I had forgotten my password in order to long in here, and I was very alarmed to see that passwords on this site are stored in clear text in the database. I know this because my password was emailed to me. This is a terrible practice, and I thought a site as popular as this one would know better. Sites should NEVER store passwords in the database, and they should NEVER send them through email. If photo.net would ever get hacked, every password of every member would be there, out in the open.<br>

Since probably this will never actually be fixed on photo.net (I'm sure they know about this already after so many years) I urge everyone to not use a password that bears any resemblance to passwords you use for your email, banking, or any other important website that you use.</p>

if the ccd of the eos 300d etc. is only 60% the size that the EF

lenses use, are we all carrying around lenses that we only use 60%

of? Sounds like a swindle to me! I'm using only $600 of my $1000 70-

200 2.8 lens?