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

No Thanks

[ushering05401]

This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because of the technology chosen for the presentation layer.

Re:No Thanks

[MollyB]

Please excuse my utter ignorance, but what is wrong (philosophically, security-wise, or wishing leprosy on oneself, etc.) with installing Moonlight for a quick peek at the picture? Can it be uninstalled? I feel like the little fishy who's mesmerized by the angler fishs' lure...

Re:No Thanks

[epp_b]

This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because of the technology chosen for the presentation layer.

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

Re:No Thanks

[DerekLyons]

This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because I choose not to use the technology required .

Fixed that for you.

Re:No Thanks

[Peach Rings]

Why:

1. Would you have silverlight installed
2. Wouldn't you view the picture if you had silverlight installed?

Re:No Thanks

[choongiri]

what is wrong ... with installing Moonlight

I have moonlight installed. Here's what happened:

Sorry, but Silverlight is not supported on this operating system.

Silverlight works on Windows and on Mac OS (Intel only).

Fail.

I tried spoofing the user-agent to MSIE 8:

Install the latest version of Silverlight to see this content.

Fail.

Props to the photography, but somebody needs to tell them 1990 called, and wants its browser sniffing rubbish back. I would only be mildly bothered that they used silverlight, but they didn't even do it properly.

Re:No Thanks

[Colonel Korn]

This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because of the technology chosen for the presentation layer.

Why do you assume that a lot of pixels will make it beautiful?

Re:No Thanks

[brasselv]

The technology was not chosen - it appears to be more the motive behind the event.
Turns out that MS, in fact, is the main sponsor of this thing, according to the website.

Re:No Thanks

[bryonak]

So you say I should wait until monday, go to a store, fork over some cash to buy a copy of Windows, spend some time setting it up and installing Silverlight... and then claim it's unreasonable to say that they should've chosen a format that is easily available to everyone?

Choice is very much dependent on perspective. It's hardly valid to claim that it's your fault if you chose not to own a Ferrari.
Many people could if they really stretched out, got some credits, etc... but it's not worth to them.
The same way it's not worth to me spending time and money just to view this image.

Re:No Thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

Technically that FS doesn't come from a convicted murderer. He murdered and was convicted after a few versions of the FS he wrote, he didn't write it from a (non-chroot) jail. Poor guy, and poor wife. That's what hunting for race conditions does to people.

fsck Silverlight

[jijitus]

All that processing, and couldn't create a Flash viewer for it?
If someone shoots a 70GP picture and no one is able to view it, does it matter at all?

Unimpressive all things considered

[wjh31]

This becomes considerably less impressive when you realize that this image is done with sponsorship from major partners, whereas images like the Dubai picture, or the 50 Gigapixel image in Vienna were both done by individuals.

Re:[Note: requires Silverlight]

[B4light]

OMG, Tribalism

Re:Lets make sure to focus on what's really import

[alexhs]

Lets make sure that this discussion focuses on the fact that they presented it in Silverlight and not the open and saintly Flash format.

Nobody likes Adobe Flash (excepted for Apple bashing time).
We now have HTML5.
However Flash is an important legacy format that we can't yet ignore (especially when all major browsers don't support HTML5 yet).
Silverlight became legacy before ever gaining significant marketshare. Why should we care ? Also, as pointed by blirp, it's not really cross-platforms.

Therefore, expect the same kind of off-topic threads that we get with paywalls or slashdotted links. No access to the material implies random off-topic discussions.

Your loss

[DogDude]

"This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because of the technology chosen for the presentation layer."

Great. Do you want a cookie? The only thing you've accomplished is to not see the picture. Nobody else really cares.

Re:Who cares?

[Sir_Lewk]

How does your post advance humanity, or even technology, in a meaningful way?

Practice what you preach asshole.

Re:Works with Moonlight...

[aardvarkjoe]

Is there anything here for the Justice Department or the EU to look at?

I would hope that the Justice Department would have something better to do than investigate complaints that you can only view a particular photo on a particular OS. Of course, I could be wrong.

FYI

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

The first Browser ever was released December 23, 1990.

Re:Works with Moonlight...

[flerchin]

Worked fine in Chromium, with moonlight 2.3. No spoofing required.

The hatred for silverlight seems irrational, as most of us also have the adobe flash plugins installed too.