[geeks] 720 Megapixel photo

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:17:16PM +0000, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 @ 00:29 +0000, wa2egp at att.net said:
>>
>>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au>
>>>> Sydney in 720 megapixel glory :)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.docbert.org/SydneyByNight/
>>>>
>>>>   Scott.
>>>
>>> My friend can exceed that with his 8 X 10 view
>>> camera.  Analog rules!  :)
>>
>> If you have the money, you can get that with digital.
>>
>> Very expensive though.
>
> True.  And if he wants a hard copy....what the hell is he going to print
> it on if he doesn't want to loose anything?  Also, what is the resolution
> of the human eye? No sense in going beyond that....   :)

At my previous gig, we had a photo printer that could do up to 42" wide
prints, I think it was at least 600 dpi, maybe higher.  This image is
40000x18000 pixels, so on this printer, 66"x30", no problem.  And it
would be a real photographic print, not inkjet.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org