On page 90 of the 15 December 2003 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology
magazine (www.AviationNow.com) appears an article (USAF employs super-high-res
camera for disaster planning) about the use of an ultra-high resolution digital
panoramic camera to photograph the interiors of aircraft, for use in training
and for emergency uses.
The camera head rotates, yielding a 500 MB image file, one to a CD, the
resolution being (65,000)(6,000)= 390,000,000 pixels for a 360-degree panorama.
The camera is made by Panoscan of Van Nuys, California, costs US $35,000, and
about 75 have been sold so far. www.panoscan.com
It uses the same Kodak trilinear CCD as the BetterLight view camera, so these
pixels are 12 microns square and three-color, with no Beyer pattern artifacts
to deal with.
Joe Gwinn
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