Update: This story originally discussed a prototype camera capable of capturing 50 gigapixel images. Though a design has been laid out for such a camera, the existing prototype takes one gigapixel ...

Imagine trying to spot an individual pixel in an image displayed across 1,000 high-definition TV screens. That’s the kind of resolution a new kind of “compact” gigapixel camera is capable of producing ...

GigaPan’s robotic camera mounts can help spit out pictures to create fantastically detailed panoramic photos. That's what photographer Gerald Donovan has used to create what is being billed as the ...

A new camera made from off-the-shelf electronics can take snapshots with one billion pixels. These gigapixel images are about a thousand times larger than those made by conventional cameras, which max ...

Computer scientists from the University of Utah have developed computer software that allows editing of "extreme resolution" image files in a matter of seconds, a process that could previously have ...

Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer type in the United States, and it’s also the deadliest form of skin cancer, causing more than 75 percent of skin-cancer deaths. If caught early enough though, ...

The US Army's newest Hummingbird drone can shoot 1.8 gigapixel images that, from 20,000 feet high, cover an area of 25 square miles. The drone uses image sensor technology from DARPA in order to do ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah computer scientists developed software that quickly edits "extreme resolution imagery" – huge photographs containing billions to hundreds of billions of pixels or ...

We, humans, love life’s finer details. And thanks to a team at the Rijksmuseum—the Netherlands’ national arts and history museum—one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings has now been archived in finer ...

The image lets you zoom in to a remarkable degree, offering a chance to become a quasi-omniscient onlooker of a single frozen moment of time, from a single fixed point. Inside your photographic domain ...

When a small team of researchers recently wheeled a supercamera up to the edge of a bay at Mason Neck State Park in Northern Virginia, there was no need to point the camera at anything specific.

Google has created the Art Camera, the device was created for the Google Cultural Institute to photograph artworks from museums around to world to archive and preserve them. Google says the camera is ...