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Appreciation of Martin Oeggerli

cliveh

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This guy uses a camera that weighs one and a half tons (resting on a seven ton concrete block base) that cost 1.5 million euros.

"It's a huge machine that feels like you are sitting in a cockpit with three monitors, a joystick and two keyboards to capture images." This scanning electron microscope requires between 10 and 20 minutes to take a picture and will magnify between 50 and a million times their actual size.