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26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record

Posted by timothy on from the stock-up-on-flash-memory dept.

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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  1. Re:Honestly? Goggle Traslate impressed me more. by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 0, Troll

    This has been done and its going to be "done" many times before.

    What amazed me was that Google translate did a REALLY good job of traslating that article. Its not perfect, but you can read it and understand fairly clearly.

    Posting on /. about how something's "been done before" has been done before.

    What amazed me was that Slashdot spellcheck did a REALLY good job of spellchecking that post. It's not perfect, but you can read and understand it fairly easily.

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    Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.