You and your puny megapixel cameras!

Now this is a REAL camera!

http://www.scientificc​omputing.com …Try-Gigapixel-062112.aspx

Awesome. Technology rolls on!

Joemt.

Imagine the RAW file size!

Yeah...at what ISO?? LOL!!

Uses for Gigapixel cameras, er, none...

Go on, I challenge you, think of one... outside of astronomy / use in outer space

Just wait, once Apple introduces their iPhone 5 overhyped thingy this toycamera will pale in comparison.

*sarcasm mode off*

/ Magnus

Wissigle wrote in post #14616992
Uses for Gigapixel cameras, er, none...

Go on, I challenge you, think of one... outside of astronomy / use in outer space

To see through time if you can get it up to 88mph

Need some mean noise reduction software for that puppy at high ISO. Can we pre-order the consumer one?

Do you think Adobe will release the update for this in LR4 or will I have to buy LR5?

Wissigle wrote in post #14616992
Uses for Gigapixel cameras, er, none...

According to the BBC News - spy satellites.


I wonder how long before somebody posts a 800x600 pixel crop complaining about the noise.

Wissigle wrote in post #14616992
Uses for Gigapixel cameras, er, none...

Go on, I challenge you, think of one... outside of astronomy / use in outer space

Taking a pano that measures 60' in 1 shot...come on know...EVERYBODY needs 1 of these....

1959: What company would ever need a computer?
1979: What would our school ever do with a computer?
1987: Why would I want a phone in my car?
Somewhere in here PC Magazine questioned the need to ever have a CPU faster than the 80286.

Scoffing at this sort of prototype technology through the lens (if you will) of 2012 is easy, but we should have all learned by now that technology will not sit still and keep our current gear from becoming laughingly obsolete much faster than we would like. If multi-gigabyte cameras become available to the masses, the attendant technology (e.g., post-processing, printing, displays) will also have advanced, and we will scratch our heads in wonder at the puny megapixel cameras of the early 21st century.

I've worked with cameras that took a similar approach, stack'n'stich, for high resolution robotic tracking of items in the environment. (They were even stereoscopic! You could really see the fine detail in the noise hair of people while we were working in the lab with them.)

Data processing on them does make things cry. But they do have a lot of uses in science and security.

"The camera’s resolution is five times better than 20/20 human vision over a 120 degree horizontal field."

How will we benefit from something that we as human do not have the capacity to see past 20/20 vision?

Wissigle wrote in post #14616992
Uses for Gigapixel cameras, er, none...

Go on, I challenge you, think of one... outside of astronomy / use in outer space

The article says it was supported by DARPA. Which means there's a use for it. Somewhere down the big huge bloated defense budget, there is a use. It's a military use, but there is a use.