Woah, Kodak!!!!!!

16-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA TOPS KODAK'S NET DRIVE

Posted at November 15, 2000 03:57 AM Pacific

LAS VEGAS -- Eastman Kodak on Tuesday announced the
development of a 16-megapixel digital camera here at
the Comdex trade show.

The Kodak Proback will ship next year, said Dan Carp,
Kodak chairman and chief executive officer, in a
keynote address late Tuesday. The camera is capable of
taking a photograph with a print 8 feet by 12 feet
without pixelation, Carp said.

For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/11/15/001115hnkodak.xml?1115we

Old news.

Peter C. Hugger said:

16-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA TOPS KODAK'S NET DRIVE

Posted at November 15, 2000 03:57 AM Pacific

LAS VEGAS -- Eastman Kodak on Tuesday announced the
development of a 16-megapixel digital camera here at
the Comdex trade show.

The Kodak Proback will ship next year, said Dan Carp,
Kodak chairman and chief executive officer, in a
keynote address late Tuesday. The camera is capable of
taking a photograph with a print 8 feet by 12 feet
without pixelation, Carp said.

For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/11/15/001115hnkodak.xml?1115we

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Let's get out the old calculator, shall we?

8 feet is 2440 mm. 12 feet is 3660 mm. The area is 8.9 million sq. mm.

Divide this by 16M and you get a pixel size of 0.55 sq. mm. - small but far from invisible. Such a print would be pixelaed unless subjected to interpolation.
Not that I'm saying film could do better, but Kodak's claim is false.

Besides, haven't we read about this on DPR several months ago? This is not going into the next DC2xx or the CP9xx. This is for studio cameras only.

Peter C. Hugger said:

16-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA TOPS KODAK'S NET DRIVE

Posted at November 15, 2000 03:57 AM Pacific

LAS VEGAS -- Eastman Kodak on Tuesday announced the
development of a 16-megapixel digital camera here at
the Comdex trade show.

The Kodak Proback will ship next year, said Dan Carp,
Kodak chairman and chief executive officer, in a
keynote address late Tuesday. The camera is capable of
taking a photograph with a print 8 feet by 12 feet
without pixelation, Carp said.

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The pixelization would be not be invisible if the picture is viewed from a reasonable distance where you can see the whole shot. Also, Genuine Fractals could also be used to depixelize the image. I do this quite frequently to get a smooth, sharp image at higher resolutions. Leon

Yoav Nir said:

8 feet is 2440 mm. 12 feet is 3660 mm. The area is 8.9 million
sq. mm.

Divide this by 16M and you get a pixel size of 0.55 sq. mm. - small
but far from invisible. Such a print would be pixelaed unless
subjected to interpolation.
Not that I'm saying film could do better, but Kodak's claim is false.

Besides, haven't we read about this on DPR several months ago?
This is not going into the next DC2xx or the CP9xx. This is for
studio cameras only.

Peter C. Hugger said:

16-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA TOPS KODAK'S NET DRIVE

Posted at November 15, 2000 03:57 AM Pacific

LAS VEGAS -- Eastman Kodak on Tuesday announced the
development of a 16-megapixel digital camera here at
the Comdex trade show.

The Kodak Proback will ship next year, said Dan Carp,
Kodak chairman and chief executive officer, in a
keynote address late Tuesday. The camera is capable of
taking a photograph with a print 8 feet by 12 feet
without pixelation, Carp said.

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Leon Wittwer said:

The pixelization would be not be invisible if the picture is viewed
from a reasonable distance where you can see the whole shot. Also,
Genuine Fractals could also be used to depixelize the image. I do
this quite frequently to get a smooth, sharp image at higher
resolutions. Leon

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Then the Nikon 990 can print skyscraper-sized posters as displayed currently in New York's Time square.

Misha

Apparently, human vision can resolve about 60 cycles per degree of vision, which means at least 120 pixels per degree. By my calculations, this means that this 16Mp 12ft x 8ft image would have no pixelation if viewed from greater than 16ft. I suppose that's about the distance I'd like to view a 12ft x 8ft image.

Greg.