14 Giga Pixel Camera

[po10c]

Ok...I'm depressed! Got the normal junk email this morning from Google earth...and theyve advertised some paintings of Madrid’s El Prado!

Image quality is 14 gigapixels, 1400 times the resolution of a 10 megapixel camera...I only have Nikon D80! Yes you read it "14 GIGAPIXELS"! and HD TV is at 1080 lines....and my camera...nothing close to it!

Are they manufacturers holding back technology just to make us spend our lovely £'s every year for the marginal changes to our current model!

Actually the real reason I posted this was because my thought at that point was "WOW - 14 GIGAPIXEL!!!!!"

 

[ScotlandTheScare]

Surely they've just stitched lots of smaller images together. So it would not be a 14 giga-pixel camera, just a 14 giga-pixel image.... havent seen the link myself - no link to post?

 

[po10c]

Some links:

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Link 3

:baby:

 

[Garry79]

StS is right. It won't be a 14Gp camera just a 14Gp image made up of lots of smaller images.