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Question: how close are sensor densities getting to present capabilities of glass in smartphones?
For example, if a 10 gigapixel (100000x100000) sensor existed that would fit behind an iDevice's lens, how much digital zoom cropping would we really be able to enjoy before we hit details that are bigger than pixels but smaller than the tiny lens can pass clearly?
First of all, this effort and its result are fanastic! Question: how close are sensor densities getting to present capabilities of glass in smartphones? For example, if a 10 gigapixel (100000x100000) sensor existed that would fit behind an iDevice's lens, how much digital zoom cropping would we really be able to enjoy before we hit details that are bigger than pixels but smaller than the tiny lens can pass clearly?
Thank you very much.
In terms of pixel density: You may have noticed that the "megapixel wars" have pretty much stopped. And even the sensor that I've been using for nearly all of my "world record sized" is the 18-megapixel APS-c (1.6X "crop") Canon sensor (550D, 7D). The 7D is nearly 4 years old! Only in recent months has Canon released a camera with smaller pixels (the 20 megapixel 70D). Why?
One major reason is that lenses can't resolve much more than this. Your 10 year old lens that was built for film might not yield any detail at 100% zoom.
Another reason is that they are hitting limits with the wavelength of light. Correcting "chromatic aberration" on the sensor at this resolution is becoming a major issue. Each RGB sensor on the camera responds to a range of wavelengths, each one of which gets distorted differently. These all get mixed together and it's definitely not possible to disentangle them. So, to some degree, CA is impossible to fix completely.
These are large sensors and large, expensive lenses we are talking about here. With smaller phone sensors and their tiny lenses, the problem is worse. Looking at all phone photos, there isn't really anything interesting at 100% zoom, I think you won't lose any detail at all if you make the photo 70% of its original size.
To answer your question - it will take a great number of breakthroughs before there is anything like a 10 gigapixel sensor, with a lens that can resolve details for such a sensor.
Now this would make for a very long find waldo game.
I expected to see more people in the picture. I hardly can find one. Maybe they were edited out.
There are actually lots of peoople in this one compared to other ones I've done....
First of all, this effort and its result are fanastic! Question: how close are sensor densities getting to present capabilities of glass in smartphones? For example, if a 10 gigapixel (100000x100000) sensor existed that would fit behind an iDevice's lens, how much digital zoom cropping would we really be able to enjoy before we hit details that are bigger than pixels but smaller than the tiny lens can pass clearly?
Hi OldSchool, Thank you very much. In terms of pixel density: You may have noticed that the "megapixel wars" have pretty much stopped. And even the sensor that I've been using for nearly all of my "world record sized" is the 18-megapixel APS-c (1.6X "crop") Canon sensor (550D, 7D). The 7D is nearly 4 years old! Only in recent months has Canon released a camera with smaller pixels (the 20 megapixel 70D). Why? One majo…
Roof top smoking - http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/02/why-slow-and-steady-is-bett...
Hi, I'm the photographer who made this image. Thank you for all the attention :-) Let me try to answer some of your questions, in no particular order: 1) Here is the original page: http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/ also here is a youtube screen capture showing a few highlights, if you are feeling lazy ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NboCijiLwmI 2) it is not 600,000 megapixels. It is 600,000 pixe…
I have a question, actually concerning the mori tower building: Where did you take it from? From the very top where you can go outside? Problem would be, that you couldn't go to the very edge of the building, or were you somehow able to?
And, do you maybe have a "behind the scenes" video of some sort, or just a few shots showing how you are working :D?
Thanks
First of all, this effort and its result are fanastic! Question: how close are sensor densities getting to present capabilities of glass in smartphones? For example, if a 10 gigapixel (100000x100000) sensor existed that would fit behind an iDevice's lens, how much digital zoom cropping would we really be able to enjoy before we hit details that are bigger than pixels but smaller than the tiny lens can pass clearly?
Hi OldSchool, Thank you very much. In terms of pixel density: You may have noticed that the "megapixel wars" have pretty much stopped. And even the sensor that I've been using for nearly all of my "world record sized" is the 18-megapixel APS-c (1.6X "crop") Canon sensor (550D, 7D). The 7D is nearly 4 years old! Only in recent months has Canon released a camera with smaller pixels (the 20 megapixel 70D). Why? One majo…
This guy's blog post has some interesting information about it: http://genotypewritings.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/digital-reso...
Hi, I'm the photographer who made this image. Thank you for all the attention :-) Let me try to answer some of your questions, in no particular order: 1) Here is the original page: http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/ also here is a youtube screen capture showing a few highlights, if you are feeling lazy ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NboCijiLwmI 2) it is not 600,000 megapixels. It is 600,000 pixe…