World's largest digital photo

[Scotness]

How's 78,797 x 31,565 pixels?

http://www.tno.nl/industrie_en_techniek ... /index.xml

making of:
http://www.tno.nl/industrie_en_techniek ... making_of/

zoomable image:
http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/Delft2.htm


Although apparently it's been superceded

Don't know what frame rate they can do :lol:

Scot

[Angus]

Isn't that one of those images where they tae multiple pictures and stitch them together?

absolutely nothing clever there....one could stitch together a few hundred super 8 frames...but it would hardly be the highest resolution 8mm image...

[Tom Doolittle]

On the subject of gigapixel images, I was having a conversation with someone the other day who thinks shooting film is a waste of time. He kept talking about how great his digital SLR is and how digital technology has already surpassed photochemistry and bla bla bla. Like most film-bashers, he kept coming back to megapixels. "The Nikon D80 has 10 megapixels," he said. "The next generation will probably be twice that. Digital technology is advancing by leaps and bounds and film just can't keep up."

To prove his point, he sent me this link:

http://www.gigapxl.org/

"Look," he said. "They already have digital cameras that shoot in the gigapixels!"

I read the link. Apparently he didn't. Turns out this is a FILM camera. He saw "pixels" and assumed it was a digital camera. Boy, was he embarrased.

[Angus]

You know, I have no problem with people who shoot digital...I even do it occasionally myself. I do have a problem with people who try to tell me that the way I prefer to do things is "wrong", or who assume I haven't tried DSLR's.

[Scotness]

I don't think it's stitched together out of seperate pics, but after having a quick look at the making of page - i think it is composed of one continuous picture made by tilting and panning the camera across the whole scene and writing the information continously. Which I guess is kind of like stitching it up - the ccd isn't as big as the picture!

Scot

[etimh]

Zooming in on the horizon is pretty cool. 8O

Tim

[Scotness]

Technical details

Facts and figures about the gigapixel image:

· Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
· Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
· Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
· Number of source images: 600
· Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)
· Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)
· Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125
· Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
· Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes
· Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours
· Time required to optimise project: 4 hours
· Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end PCs
· Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalize image: 2 day