Stalkers Rejoice! (Gigapixel Cameras)

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:16 am

This is amazing!

Thought I'd share

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:44 am

Holy crap! It would cost a TON of money to buy though..and does it take movies like a normal digital camera? I looked at the pictures, but didn't wanna read anything, heh

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:54 am

[QUOTE=Paranitis]Holy crap! It would cost a TON of money to buy though..and does it take movies like a normal digital camera? I looked at the pictures, but didn't wanna read anything, heh[/QUOTE]
The camera is actually analogue, according to the faq. And considering each picture is 24Gigs (after scanning), I doubt it can shoot movies at that resolution.

arno_v · Post by **arno_v** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:15 am

:d

Well if the make cameras that can make photo's with Gigapixels quality, why shouldn't there be somekind of memory card with a cople of terrabytes of storage capicity?

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:41 am

[QUOTE=arno_v]Well if the make cameras that can make photo's with Gigapixels quality, why shouldn't there be somekind of memory card with a cople of terrabytes of storage capicity?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure the lack of terabyte cards is more of a 'we-don't-have-the-technology' thing than it is a 'there's-no-market-for-it' thing

Nippy · Post by **Nippy** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:33 pm

Could you imagine the price of a terabyte memory card? I saw a terabyte storage tower and it was ridiculously expensive. LOL, the thought of one memory card size scares me.

Back to the thread, that camera is pretty damn good. Where can I get one?

moltovir · Post by **moltovir** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:45 pm

Amazing quality

A terabyte of storage space isn't that expensive, you can build a small RAID of 200-gig HD's for +- 900$.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:53 pm

[QUOTE=moltovir]Amazing quality

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The quality isn't as amazing as the zoomage abilities. Our eye can't really tell the difference between 3MPix and 3GPix when the photo is the size of an A3 sheet of paper. What I was really impressed at was the way you could see barely discernable images in detail after you zoom in

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:09 pm

Yeah, I didn't even SEE the people on the 2ed picture untill they digitally zoomed into them!

moltovir · Post by **moltovir** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:12 pm

That's what I meant. The quality of the zoomed parts is amazing