big... really BIG!

[garethhhhh]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040525/D82PL2I80.html

[Cadwell]

:lol: Very large indeed... lacks a bit on the portability front though ;)

[Laziferous]

:shock: :shock: :shock:

[Canuck]

Flipping heck! Now that is what I was talking about...ok, well talk about a new way to do advertising on billboards! Where can I get one and how much?

Just another idea...can you imagine that in digital back? What would that be the terapixel image? :shock: :shock:

[RichardtheSane]

Well the scan is 2.6Gb....

Anyone want to put that into approximate MP?

[Canuck]

Well the scan is 2.6Gb....

Anyone want to put that into approximate MP?

Here's a WAG...
All things being equal...1 byte per pixel on the 10D 6.3MP gives you a 6.3MB pic, at RAW...turn it to a TIFF it is 36MB (16 bit). Wait a second, the 10D is 12bit so there is some "fluff" if you will. Ok, so really it might be about 24 MB w/ 8 MB fluff. So now math people comes division...
(I can hear the groans...no worries, I hate maths too!)

6.3(MP)/24MB = XX.XX(MP)/2600MB
6.3*2600=16380
16380/24=682.5MP

So 682.5MP is what I get. It isn't nealy as impressive as I though...although look at the size you can do w/ 11MP like the 1Ds.

That's my WAG, all maths shown above so you can see where I am coming from.

[garethhhhh]

Well how does 350 Megapixels sound?

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Mar/02/ln/ln26a.html

I suppose this would be the digital equivalent :shock: