What would you do with 160 mega-pixels if you had them?

June 18th, 2008 . by polyGeek

Check out this new digital camera by Seitz: The Seitz 6×17 D3 digital scan back.

Here’s what you could do with this camera:
You could easily make a 12′ by 4′ print. That’s 12 FEET by 4 FEET.

If your car battery dies you could use your digital camera to give yourself a jump.

You’d have a really good excuse to get that terabit flash card.

If you wanted to take a group portrait of EVERYONE - 6,649,000,000 people - and each person got just one pixel then you would only need to take 42 photos to get everyone in the photo.

If you could take photos continually, 1/sec, for just 2 hours and 42 minutes you would have a digital collection roughly the size of the Library of Congress - 10 terabytes.

You would need 8 Apple Cinema Displays ( 2560×1600 px ) walled together to see every pixel.

It is estimated that if you had a Dell XPS 700, with a dual core 3.73 Intel chip, 4Gig DDR2 RAM, and a 1TB RAID 0 it would take 2.58 times the current age of the universe to stitch together the aforementioned group photo. (or you could wait a couple of years and get a top of the line desktop running Ubuntu and get the job done in an afternoon.)

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