The Gigapxl Project captures image nearing 4 GIGAPIXELS!

Weighing more than 100 pounds, the camera captures images at 4 gigapixels — a resolution high enough to photograph four football fields and capture every single blade of grass.
a real-world 90-degree panorama would need to be searched with 12X tripod-mounted binoculars before one could hope to accumulate an equivalent amount of information.

Wow, I was simply astonished.
But, what could be the possible use of such a camera? A photo fitting onto a DVD, taking some N time to load?
:-/
But that lens is doing some amazing work! I wonder whats the technology behind that lens.

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