[LargeFormat] Death of Large Format !

[Michael Sullivan]

of course, a 24-bit Gigapixel image vs a 48-bit Gigabyte image is not the 
same thing at all.
One has 48 times the number of data samples as the other!!!! (guess which one)

MJS



At 11:48 AM 12/4/2003, you wrote:
> > I found the gigapixel image article interesting mostly because of the
> > amount of work he went through to produce it.
>
>Well, if he'd had a 4x5 and a new Better Light Super6K2 scanning back, such
>an image would have been trivial to produce.  According to an article in the
>current View Camera magazine [Nov/Dec 2003, p. 26], that back will give you
>a 1.1 GB image in 48-bit RGB mode. No sewing skills required.
>
>It rather boggles the mind to think of how much memory one would need,
>though, to do even trivial manipulation in an image editing program...  It
>makes shooting film look *so* much easier :}
>
>\donw in victoria
>
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