JANUARY MEETING

The next meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 19, 2005. Rick
Santich, owner of the Shaker Heights Motophoto Portrait Studio will present a
Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography. Whether you are a beginner who just got
a digital camera or a more experienced photographer wanting to bring a less
experienced friend or relative, you'll want to attend this meeting.

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GIGAPIXEL RESOLUTION

I was catching up on some magazine reading and saw this article. The
photos on the website below are amazing.
-Charles Burkett

Gigapixel Resolution
08.03.05

By Sebastian Rupley
Graham Flint and Catherine Aves are not your average photographers.
The two are currently traveling across the country creating a
photographic record of landscapes using cameras that Flint invented,
which take pictures at 1,000-megapixel resolution—many times what a
digital camera can snap. The husband-and-wife team has dubbed their
effort the Gigapxl Project.

ADVERTISEMENT Flint's cameras-on-steroids took shape after years of
work in the imaging business, when he decided he wanted to venture
into uncharted photographic territory. He settled on the idea of
producing panoramic landscape pictures that contain prodigious
amounts of information, and set a goal of taking pictures with
1,000MP resolution. The cameras he invented are based on his
experience building parts of the Hubble telescope and spy cameras.
They are not digital but film-based, although the pictures are
subsequently digitized with high-resolution scanners. One camera
weighs 100 pounds and uses supersize Kodak film designed for NASA.

Many of the photographs the pair takes are as large as murals. The
pictures capture so much detail that looking at them conjures up
digital photography's future.

In the photo of the Discovery shuttle shown here, taken from a
distance of about a football field, there is a small white plaque on
the launchpad with signatures and handwriting on it. The photo's
resolution is so good that you can view close-ups on the Web and
read the tiny handwriting.


You can view more of the couple's futuristic photographs at
www.gigapxl.org . Their next goal is to achieve 4,000MP resolution.
They are also preparing for their ultimate project next year. "We're
going to archive gigapixel photo collections of worldwide endangered
sites to preserve them for future generations," says Flint—right
down to those blades of grass two miles up the road.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1843816,00.asp

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