[Article translation] Pictures taken with a 100M-pixel resolution of snowflakes reveal an otherworldly beauty:

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Everyone knows about the beauty of snowflakes but when you take a closer look at high resolution pictures, the details in their geometrical structures make them look out of this world.

Photographer Nathan Myhrvold used a special home-made camera to capture snowflakes in the highest resolution ever.

However, snowflakes are extremely small and fragile in nature, and of course can only be photographed in cold snowy places, add to this the need for equipment, and you have the recipe for an incredibly difficult task.

First of all, Myhrvold realized that the best temperature range for the most beautiful snowflakes to form was from -26°C to -29°C, so he headed to Canada's Northwest Territories and Alaska to be able to shoot at that temperature range.

 

Then, as ice sublimates and melts, snowflakes take their sharp and hexagonal shape for a brief moment, but capturing this on camera requires a precise combination of time, temperature, weather, and equipment.

Myhrvold spent 18 months customizing the "world's highest resolution camera dedicated to snowflakes" using a 100M-pixel Phase One sensor mounted on a microscope objective lens.

The microscope objective lens had a refrigeration phase to delay the melting of snowflakes, futhermore Myhrvold used industrial short pulse LEDs to limit heat due to the flash.

Finally he used a 500ms shutterspeed.

At long last, finding a solution to these challenges led Myhrvold to capture breathtaking snowflake pictures in the highest resolution ever.

Myhrvold's previous photos can be viewed at the official website below. They are also available for purchase in large prints.




Source article: https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/19254450/
Official website: https://modernistcuisinegallery.com/collection/




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