http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/01/high.resolution.camera.ap/index.htmlNew high-resolution (2.6-gigabyte file) camera nears virtual reality ability
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 Posted: 3:00 PM EDT (1900 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- When photographer Clifford Ross first saw Colorado's Mt. Sopris, he was so taken with the beauty of the mammoth formation that he jumped on the roof of his brother-in-law's car -- denting it -- to photograph the landscape.
But Ross found that his 35 mm photos didn't get anyone else excited. They simply didn't capture enough detail to convey the majesty of the white-capped mountain surrounded by grassy fields.
So he decided to make a camera that could create an image as awe-inspiring as the vista before him. The result was R1, a 110-pound, 6-foot film camera that produces what experts say are some of the highest-resolution landscape photographs ever made.
"Mountain I," a 5-foot-by-10-foot color photograph captured by that camera, is on display at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York through July 30.<snip>