New hi-res film camera

[justins7]

Chris, come back out from under that rock. These kinds of post are interesting and important. We're just reacting and complaining, but I do appreciate the infromation.

 

[Kyle]

Which person got the patent on his camera, the Cyclorama guy, or the "Gigipixel" guy, or are both the same? I went to the link posted in the original post, and I found no info other than what was originally quoted in the first post and a link to that photographer's official site. Was I missing an article with more information?

 

[wrenhunter]

Chris, I enjoyed your post. As in photography and art, just ignore the negative views and press on 🙂

 

[Socke]

Which person got the patent on his camera, the Cyclorama guy, or the "Gigipixel" guy, or are both the same? I went to the link posted in the original post, and I found no info other than what was originally quoted in the first post and a link to that photographer's official site. Was I missing an article with more information?

See here under BPS-Paper para 3. The Big Picture Overview the first sentence.

 

[StuartR]

I think he got some patents on it, not necessarily for the whole thing. I read on the site that he rigged up some sort of microscope contraption to focus it, so I suspect it is those sorts of things that got him the patents, not just that it is big. And frankly, as long as it is unique, it can be patented right? It does not have to be groundbreaking, just different from other methods, or am I wrong on this? Anyway Chris, I think people (myself included) are reacting more to this guy posturing himself as a pioneer, (which he certainly isn't since people have been using ULF since before 35mm was a twinkle in Oskar Barnack's eye), than because you posted the info. Just the self-aggrandizing nature of it all is a bit gross. I mean one lady described him as a DaVinci for pete's sake.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

A note-

The Graham Flint and Clifford Ross's work are two seperate projects.

The gigapixel camera was developed by physicist Graham flint who had built cameras for the Hubble. He is using his camera to make extreme resolution images of America. Captainslack and I saw a series of the images here in San Diego. They are massive - one "print" was approximately 8 feet in width. I could see no grain. It was kind of like "Where's Waldo" for grown-ups. Phenominal depth of field. You have to stand in front of one of these images to get why it's worth the excercise.

Is it art? I don't know. Don't care either. Stuff like this opens the mind to many possibilities. You can decide for yourselves if you like it or not. To me its both good and frightening.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66498,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

 

[ChrisPlatt]

I went to the link posted in the original post, and I found no info other than what was originally quoted in the first post and a link to that photographer's official site. Was I missing an article with more information?

Listen to the audio of the story broadcast at that link.

Chris

 

[ywenz]

What is wrong with these imageS?