Samsung took a picture in 200 megapixels and then hung it on an entire building

Samsung decided to put their new 200-megapixel sensor to the test, and take advantage of every pixel to the maximum: they printed and hung a picture of a 616-square-foot cat on the wall of an entire building.

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01/06/2022

Wednesday, 01 June 2022, 07:00

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Our constant joke the tech writers about the amount of megapixels in the cameras, that it does not matter so much unless you want to take a picture that will become a poster over the Ayalon lanes.

But with Samsung's new 200-megapixel image sensor called ISOCELL - they decided to make our joke a reality.

Samsung took a professional photo of a cat using the new sensor, and decided they were printing it on a giant poster that would hang over an entire building.

How huge?

616 square feet, 28 feet wide and 22 feet high, about once and a half the area of ​​a standard basketball court.

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The cat takes a 200-megapixel Samsung camera in a huge image (Photo: Samsung)

Since this is a sensor that is still in development, the lighting and composition conditions were first checked, and then adjustments were made to the connection with the board on which the sensor sits.

Photographer Hujong Kim says he was curious to see the result, as 200-megapixel sensors (that is, 200 million pixels) are rare even on professional DSLR cameras.

"I could not believe what I saw when the image was enlarged to 100%. I was amazed at the level of detail."

The printing process was not simple either.

Obviously, a 616-square-foot image could not be printed at once, but was printed on 12 2.3-meter-wide sheets of fabric in a wide-print printer, sewn together.

The piece was then loaded onto a truck, and mounted on the wall of the building using a crane.

Changwan Kim from Samsung who led the project, said "When the picture was revealed, its huge size really hit me, and not just because of the physical size. The moment I faced 200 million pixels detailing the cat's eyes and fur, I realized all the effort put into the final product ".

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