Thursday, October 20, 2005

The Sharpest Image - Popular Science

The Sharpest Image - Popular Science: "From a few feet away, a panoramic image he's taken of the Grand Canyon is startlingly vivid, almost hyperreal. As I move in closer, I am amazed that it retains its clarity. It does not become pixelated. Where I saw only a distant group of visitors standing across the canyon, I now see the fine chain-link fencing behind which they stand. Flint's photographs are like the hard-to-believe technology in spy thrillers—it turns out that you can, beginning from a panoramic shot of San Diego's skyline at night taken from a quarter of a mile away, keep zooming in until you can make out the poster on an apartment wa"

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