Photographer builds 3.2-gigapixel camera
Saturday 8 November 2025, 14:28 by Elja Trum | 1,534 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
German photographer Yannick Richter has built his own medium format camera that can take photos with a resolution of 3.2 gigapixels (80,000 by 40,000 pixels). The camera was built using existing parts and uses a CCD sensor from a scanner to capture the image.
Yannick takes his photos by moving the scanner sensor across the image plane. Line by line. Taking a full-resolution photo takes about half an hour.
Practical use is therefore limited, but it is an impressive project. Yannick has put together the hardware and written the software for his camera himself.
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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