[LargeFormat] Death of Large Format !

[Jim Hemenway]

Hi Jim:

I think that you're right. I read somewhere that a 35 mm piece of film 
contains 39 megapixels of information and since an 8x10 is somewhere 
equal in size to 36 35mm exposures, then by extension, an 8x10 would 
hold 1,404,000,000 pixels... if one had an appropriate scanner.

In practice, my 11x14s produce 98,560,000 pixels when scanned at 800 dpi 
with my Epson 835XL.

I found the gigapixel image article interesting mostly because of the 
amount of work he went through to produce it.

Jim

Jim Brick wrote:

> A single sheet of 8x10 (and most likely 4x5) film would make this 
> gigapixel image look like an Etch-A-Sketch drawing. And at about 
> 1/1000th the work.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> At 09:27 AM 12/3/2003 -0500, Jim Hemenway wrote:
> 
>> Just kidding, but this is interesting.
>>
>> 1 Gigapixel image stitched together from separate images.
>>
>> http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm
>> -- 
>>
>> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
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