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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. PS by wjh31 · · Score: 4, Informative

    oh, and half of it is sky which doesnt really count. While this is the case with the other two i mentioned, it is not so with the 67 Gigapixel image of Corcoado

  2. Re:fsck Silverlight by clarkkent09 · · Score: 4, Informative

    no one is able to view it

    I just viewed it. Its pretty awesome actually. Since you can't view it (?) let me describe it for you. When fully zoomed out, Budapest appears is a (pretty small) city in the distance and most of what you see is the surrounding countryside. Then with a very smooth zoom you keep zooming towards the city, until you see very clearly individual buildings and even people in the windows. Can you show me a Flash example of something like that?

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  3. Re:fsck Silverlight by Peach+Rings · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can you show me a Flash example of something like that?

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    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1739126&cid=33096788

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  4. Works with Moonlight... by sd.fhasldff · · Score: 3, Informative

    The idiots behind the site are using OS detection, so if you're using Moonlight on a non-Windows/OSX platform, you'll need to spoof your User-Agent string.

    Other than that, it works just fine with Firefox & Moonlight on Linux.

    1. Re:Works with Moonlight... by sd.fhasldff · · Score: 5, Informative

      Spoofing as Firefox 3 on Vista worked for me.

      Specifically:
      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

      With Novell Moonlight 2.3.

  5. Re:No Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    just pretend you have a mac and it works just fine with moonlight. install user agent switcher for firefox and use this agent setting:

          Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

  6. Re:No Thanks by Random+Destruction · · Score: 2, Informative

    nope. works fine here on ubuntu 10.04 x64. It told me i needed moonlight, so i clicked ok, and then restarted firefox. blizzam. big picture and shit.

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