Monks take to photography

The world’s oldest monastery, Saint Catherine's, plans to use hi-tech cameras to study further into the Codex Sinaiticus. The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest surviving bible in the world and the monastery will use cameras to photograph parchments at different wavelengths of light which will highlight faded texts masked by time and overwriting. This technology is called Hyperspectral imaging. Photographing of these documents may involve using 4 cameras taking images from different angles and then stitching the image together. Presently, a 72 mega pixel camera is being used to photograph other documents at this monastery and they hope to get these images up on a website by mid 2006. Maybe we can use this technology to test Dan Brown's theories in 'The Da Vinci Code'.