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."

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Woop de freakin do

[GigaHurtsMyRobot]

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?

Slashdot effect

[EEPROMS]

in 3...2..1

Re:Google Earth

[Arthur Grumbine]

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.