I skimmed the whole site last week, and this is a very neat camera.
In short, it's a refurbished military arial camera with a 9x18" format. It
uses commercialy available roll film, so no sheet holders. The lens is a
custom-designed beast meant to deliver maximum performance edge-to-edge (= v.
expensive). So they take a 9x18" negavite and scan it on a big drum scanner to
arrive at a 4 GigaPixel image, when they then output to a big Lightjet printer.
Even a contact print from a 9x18" negative would be impressive.
The whole concept is quite conventional, and not super-high tech, but still
SOTA. The only other way to capture that much information is with a scanning
back (like a Betterlight), or to do stitching of many, small pictures taken
with a conventional DSLR like Max Lyons has done here:
http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm. Both of those techniqes do
not allow for the capture of moving elements, which is the big benefit of the
gigapixl camera.
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Subject: [OM] Re: Ultimate OM1 accessory
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:14:01 -0800
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
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>Afraid I could not afford the super computer much less the sensor.
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>Winsor
>Long Beach, California, USA
>On Nov 18, 2004, at 10:06 AM, Mike wrote:
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>> I want one of these attachments for my OM1 ;>)
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>> http://www.gigapxl.org/
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>> Mike
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