Semi-Retired Physicist Invents Worlds Most Powerful Camera

by DCT on October 19, 2005

Graham Flint, semi-retired physicist and pioneering laser-weapons researcher adapts camera formerly used in U2 spy planes to create 1,000 megapixel images. To create analog gigapixel photography, while digital photography was still in its megapixel infancy (”mega” means million; “giga,” billion), virtually required someone like Graham Flint: a hobbyist photographer with an extensive knowledge of optics, physics, astronomy, and military aerial-reconnaissance cameras.

[via Popular Science Online]