Microsoft's in the digital cameras business

[Via Mark Brown's blog]

Do you know that Microsoft is in the digital camera business?  Sure you might say, they have been selling Web cams like this one for a while now.

Yep but I'm talking about a real digital camera with impressive features like 216 megapixels that can take these kind of pictures:

Here's the beast:

Yep, this puppy is designed for aerial photography and Microsoft bougth the German company who designed it back in March.

More info here: http://www.microsoft.com/ultracam/default.mspx

I wonder if I can fit one in my car for taking potholes snapshots.