Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo

hasanabbas1987 writes "It's just been a few months since a 45-gigapixel panorama of Dubai claimed the title of world's largest digital photograph, but it's now already been well and truly ousted — the new king in town is this 70-gigapixel, 360-degree panorama of Budapest. As with other multi-gigapixel images, this one was no easy feat, and involved two 25-megapixel Sony A900 cameras fitted with 400mm Minolta lenses and 1.4X teleconverters, a robotic camera mount from 360world that got the shooting done over the course of two days, and two solid days of post-processing that resulted in a single 200GB file — not to mention a 15-meter-long printed copy of the photograph for good measure. Of course, what's most impressive is the photo itself [Note: requires Silverlight]."

Comments

I will probably never see this photo

[ThreeGigs]

I've never installed Silverlight, never had to, and hopefully never will.

Perhaps the did it to save bandwidth? (grin)

Re:No Thanks

[Carewolf]

I had no idea silverlight still exisisted. Does anyone actually use it for anything??

I thought it was just a braindead idea from the corpse of MS Vista that trickes gnomish people into wasting their time. Even on my two windows machines I don't have silverlight installed. I see activex and VG graphics waay more often than silverlight (as in I've seen them used unlike silverlight where this is the first I've seen beyond five year old demos).

Re:No Thanks

[rolfc]

I don't hate Microsoft, I hate their business model and the results of it.