Re: Tom Swift's New Camera, Ready for Space and Spies

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:31:48 -0800

ca314159 wrote:
>
> Tom Swift's New Camera, Ready for Space and Spies
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/arts/design/09phot.html
>
> By JULIE SALAMON
>
> As an adolescent, Clifford Ross was an apathetic science student
> but obsessed by Tom Swift. Now 52, Mr. Ross has become a character
> appropriate to a boys' adventure novel.

Bullshit meter quivers.

[snip]

> Mr. Ross has taken photographs on 9-by-18-inch negatives that when
> slowly processed by hand and digitally scanned contain 100 times as
> much data as the average professional digital camera.

What is the "pixel" size of ordinary high reslution photographic
film? It is sub-micron over the entire negative's area. Consider
SR-71 imaging. Film resolution often exceeds that of its optics.

So?

[snip yada yada] 

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