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26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record
FrenchSilk writes "The largest gigapixel photograph ever created with a DSLR camera was made by A.F.B. Media GmbH in Dresden, Germany. 1655 images, each 21.6 megapixels in size, were taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and a 400 mm lens over a period of 176 minutes. The images were stitched on a 16 processor system with 48GB of main memory, taking 94 hours to create the final result. The interactive view can be found here."
If you can't take it all in at once, what's the big deal? Wouldn't Google earth have the largest 'photo' since it has an interactive view of the entire globe stitched together?
in 3...2..1
bah, megapixels mean nothing...
what about signal to noise ratio, dynamic range, plenoptic capabilities, etc.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Of course it will still be attached to a consumer phone with a shitty little lens in front of it.
FTFY
Read about CMOS Active Pixel Sensors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_pixel_sensor
The size is dominated by the transistors, the photo-diode shares the same feature size are the transistors since it's manufactured under the same process.
Moore's law applies.
I have printed out that last post of mine and am chewing on the paper as I type this. Interesting to note, though, is these two articles discussing the upper limits of pixel count due to diffraction. Looks like we're not gonna see a 26 GP camera after all, even with Moore's Law applying.
*chokes on mushy pulp*
It's a moral victo-- AACCKKK-*gulp*...ahem, victory.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Due to the way these images are created, they don't work at all for even moderately dynamic views, they're always full of artifacts from the light change, they usually look quite dull when zoomed out and the interesting bits are lost in a vast desert of pointless detail.
Pointless detail?
Detail was precisely the point of the image.
Further, simply because you have no immediate use for this detail does not mean its pointless and certainly not a desert. Its all still there when you zoom back in.
The detail on the facade of a building does not cease to exist just because you get in your car and drive a mile away.
This is an attempt to record that. To have the naked eye view and the telescopic view in one set of images.
The practical applications of this seem rich, if we can just get past our little self centered world view that suggests just because you can not experience every level of detail simultaneously, that, therefore none of it is warranted.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb/photo/imviaduct.htm
Large-resolution image taken with an 8x10 camear. A large format film camera (100+ year-old technology) can squeak out very high resolutions. Arguments abound as to the megapixel equivalent of film, but if a 35mm camera is about 20 megapixels then by my calculations a 8x10 camera is about one regular old fashioned gigapixel of resolution.
So you mean she's not naked.
(typing this while sitting at my computer naked, except for khakis, a pair of boxers, and a t-shirt.)