“Flint’s Gigapxl Project is an attempt to capture America in a series of very high-resolution portraits. Beginning in 2000, Flint has made about 1,000 gigapixel photographs during long road trips covering thousands of miles. His last trip lasted six weeks, stretched 9,000 miles and resulted in 150 images.”
This is pretty neat. People forget that a large format camera can have simply amazing resolving power when the negative is enlarged. I like the idea of capturing America in such high resolution sounds like fun. I hope Unesco will use his camera will be used to record endangered archaeological sites. I wonder if there is room for someone to take very low resolution images of America. 🙂
Wired News: Photographer Seeks Resolution
Gigapxl Project
Category: Photography
Apollo 11 – 17 Mission First man on the Moon – Fullscreen QTVR Photos
Here are a slew of fantastic panoramic images taken on the surface of the moon during the Apollo missions. The negatives have been rescanned and stiched together to form these breathtaking 360 degree images.
Apollo 11 – 17 Mission First man on the Moon – Fullscreen QTVR photo from panoramas.dk
Original Site (currently suffering from the Slashdot effect)
Autochrome Photos from WWI
In 1904 the Autochrome was unveiled at the Academy of Science in France, this new photographic technique was a revolution in the world of color photography. Up to that time all color photos were taken by a three plate technique that required lots of time and a subject that did not move. The Autochrome used dyed potato starch that captured a color image in one single exposure. These photos were take in World War 1 and still look pretty good.
World’s Armed Forces Forum
More info on the Autochrome process:
What is an Autochrome?
iPod Photo Stereoscope
This is a pretty cool little hack. Now I only know two people that own iPods and one of them lives in Canada. I can’t see someone like me buying two of the photo iPods to build one of these, plus I’d hate to mess up my stereopticon. It does make me think that two of those little Juice Box media players might be a cheap analoug.
IPOD-Photo Stereoscope
Fun With a Gun
I have got to give this a try. Back in high school I took a photo of a hammer breaking a light bulb and impressed the heck out of the teacher. I rigged a simple switch (a wire and aluminium foil wraped around the hammer) and ran that to a simple photo strobe. All I had to do was lift tha hammer up, turn the lights off, open the shutter and let the hammer fall. On the first try the hammer was all the way through the bulb when the strobe fired, but on the second run i moved the wire a tad and got a prefect photo. I can still remember that you could see the filiment flexing inside the shell of breaking glass. I think I’ll try this again but this time with my D70.
Ballistics – a photoset on Flickr
Pretty Space Pictures
See it while it is still opperational. It will be a sad sad day when the suits pull the funding plug on this national asset.
HubbleSite