Robotic Camera Extension Takes Gigapixel Photos

schliz writes "Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a device that lets a standard digital camera take pictures with a resolution of 1-gigapixel (1,000-megapixels). The Gigapan is a robotic arm that takes multiple pictures of the same scene and blends them into a single image. The resulting picture can be expanded to show incredible detail."

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1000 megapixel?

[duguk]

From TFS:

take pictures with a resolution of 1-gigapixel (1,000-megapixels)

Where's the other 24 megapixels? ;)

caveat: yes, i know. don't start. it was a joke. don't link to wikipedia to explain, besides; xkcd explained it better. [xkcd.com]

Re:Not so novel

[The End Of Days]

Yeah, it's a real shame that people don't take the time to find out every single idea anyone has ever had so they don't duplicate things. What a sad world.

Big Deal!

[Evildonald]

I've been doing this for years with a film camera and then sticky-taping all the photos together. Then when i want to "zoom in" I just move my head closer to the picture.

I can't wait!

[rakzor]

For the 1000-megapixel porn industry.

Re:Not so novel

[yfarren]

How does this get modded insightful when it is nothing but a troll? Seriously Mods, the article doesn't talk anywhere about a patent. This is just some guy trolling trying to start some argument about something wholly unrelated to the use/interest of using a regular camera to get a higher resolution photo. No-one but the poster mentioned patents.

That's a troll. Look at it, see its warts and throw it back under the bridge it came from.

You can read the magazine covers...

[dogdick]

thats pretty amazing...
There is also a woman blowing a guy in one of the windows.

Re:Not so novel

[Clover_Kicker]

You know what they say, a month in the lab can often save an afternoon in the library.