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

Posted by timothy on from the cool-one-up-man-ship dept.

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]."

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  1. Lets make sure to focus on what's really important by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lets make sure that this discussion focuses on the fact that they presented it in Silverlight and not the open and saintly Flash format. I don't want to veer offtopic here into discussing "gigapixels" and "robotic camera stands". That's not what this site is about.

  2. Re:No Thanks by Peach+Rings · · Score: 5, Funny

    Count me in. Lets give this thing the force of an internet petition.

  3. Amazing details! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Check out the 36th house on the left, if you zoom in enough you can just about see a quarter of a boob through the half opened window. Not enough mega pixels to see if its a female or male booby though :(

    1. Re:Amazing details! by Peach+Rings · · Score: 4, Funny

      And suddenly silverlight penetration in the Slashdot community triples.

  4. Too bad. by AnonymousClown · · Score: 5, Funny
    The they have scenes were you can zoom in to certain parts of the photo. The one that zooms in on the nude beach where it appears that they're filming some sort of Playboy type of thing is really nice.

    Anyway, you don't want to install Silverlight.....

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  5. Re:fsck Silverlight by Zak3056 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All that processing, and couldn't create a Flash viewer for it?

    IOW: Damn Microsoft and their proprietary format. They should be more open, and use Adobe's proprietary format instead!

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  6. Re:No Thanks by adolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because I choose not to surrender my PC to a convicted monopolist.

    I still have a few machines on which I choose to run a filesystem written by a convicted murderer.

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  7. Enhance by poity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Enhance.. Enhance.. Enhance..

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  8. Re:No Thanks by nacturation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can tell, just by the thumbnail, that this isn't true. It is actually quite a dull photograph.

    There is the girl in the red bra, though she's not really that hot.

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  9. Re:No Thanks by derGoldstein · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is the girl in the red bra, though she's not really that hot.

    True, but the one in the black bra is nice, and the naked lesbian couple performing acrobatic sex on their porch is impressive.

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