To heck with Leica. I want one of these

David_S85 · September 19, 2006

ziggy53 · September 19, 2006

David_S85 wrote:

Yes. This would be the ticket.

160 million pixel panoramics! Whoa, put me down for 2. I don't think it's instantaneous imaging, so it might make some cool "stretch" effects.

Actually, Andrew Davivhazy made a scanning digital camera some time ago:

http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-better-scanner-cam.html

ziggy53

Andy · September 19, 2006

$37Gs, a mere bag of shells

I love this line:

Possible accessories: Coming soon

colourbox · September 20, 2006

Saw this text, looked at the photo to the left of the text, and went "hmm..."

Data is transferred by gigabit ethernet from the sensor to the storage device. The portable storage device is a computer in itself with most advanced characteristics in processing, disk space and memory.

...then scrolled down to the tech specs and sure enough, the "gigabit Ethernet storage device" is a complete Mac mini. With maxed-out RAM. And two OSs on it?

Portable Mac Mini 1.66Hz Intel Core Duo (2 MB Cache, 2 GB RAM, Mac OS X, Windows XP)

Guess you don't have to bring the laptop...

DoctorIt · September 20, 2006

For 37G's, you'd expect it to have its own built-in buffer. 1, 2, maybe 4 gb. That's how most all hi-speed cameras (including the one in my lab work). You can fill the buffer, then transfer by gigabit-ethernet.

pretty darn neat anyway.