New high-resolution(2.6-gigabyte file)camera nears virtual reality ability

[papau]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/01/high.resolution.camera.ap/index.html


New high-resolution (2.6-gigabyte file) camera nears virtual reality ability
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 Posted: 3:00 PM EDT (1900 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- When photographer Clifford Ross first saw Colorado's Mt. Sopris, he was so taken with the beauty of the mammoth formation that he jumped on the roof of his brother-in-law's car -- denting it -- to photograph the landscape.

But Ross found that his 35 mm photos didn't get anyone else excited. They simply didn't capture enough detail to convey the majesty of the white-capped mountain surrounded by grassy fields.

So he decided to make a camera that could create an image as awe-inspiring as the vista before him. The result was R1, a 110-pound, 6-foot film camera that produces what experts say are some of the highest-resolution landscape photographs ever made.

"Mountain I," a 5-foot-by-10-foot color photograph captured by that camera, is on display at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York through July 30.<snip>

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Big deal....

http://www.caldwellphotographic.com/Mosaics.html

:)

[papau]

2. Stitched Mosaics - 18 feet by 36 feet - are next!

Those poor folks with 20 mega pix "high resolution" digital camera's.

It is worse than "fill in word" envy!

:-)

[TreasonousBastard]

3. OK, but....

there's nothing really new there. View cameras are not "19th century" and are still being made and used now, although 8x10 and 5x7 are much more common, and the vacuum back is found even in Zeiss 35mm cameras.

Cute trick digitally enhancing the image, though. I wonder what Ansel Adams would have done with Photoshop. He knew a little about grand vistas.