Resolution - how big is big

[Rusty]

Can you imagine a 16 billion pixel image?

This was in our local newspaper today and I saw it again online:
The story
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/da-vincis-last-supper-goes-online/20071028112409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
The image:
http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/

Rusty

[Cmcburnett]

Chuck, that's eerie. I don't know quite what to think of that.:confused:

[genevh]

Try this on for size. The negative alone measured 3'7" X 111'. The camera used was built out of an airplane hangar and measured 44'-2" feet high by 79'-6" feet deep by 161'-6" feet wide. It was a pinhole camera!

http://www.legacyphotoproject.com/

[Cmcburnett]

Wow Gene, that was some serious photographers and we thought our cameras were heavy.

[nkeevers]

I read about that picture being online in the paper the other day! You can zoom and see every crack in the painting! Awesome.

[msbrad]

Wow-that is incredible.
m

[pixlbandit]

Gene,
Thanks for posting this link. I wish I had known about this project earlier as I teach there 2 days a week (just came backfrom there, in fact--can see that hanger out of the window of my classroom and which I took a peek at this morning). Since they took the photo during summer, I missed the process entirely, and also missed when it was on display in Pasadena. Strangely enough, although the school usually advertises, with big fanfare, anything of interest that takes place on the former base, I don't remember seeing a word about the project or the show at all. Our campus leases land and one of the buildings that used to be the Western Command Center for the Marines. When they were upgrading the ventilation system and some of the electrical, they got a big surprise: When you cut open plaster or sheetrock, some of the walls have armored steel plates inside of them--they had to reroute a lot of ductwork! The room that houses the registration office looks like an ordinary room, even though it inconveniently has no windows. The surprise is that it is actually a vault--used to house military secrets. Other than an underground bunker, I'll bet it is probably one of the most secure buildings on the west coast.
Vicki

[genevh]

I guess that's what is known as a "hardened" building.

But not to take away from Rusty's link either. That project was a huge undertaking in and of itself. I just looked at that one myself and the detail they captured is amazing.