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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]."

8 of 207 comments (clear)

  1. No Thanks by ushering05401 · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    1. Re:No Thanks by DerekLyons · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

      Fixed that for you.

    2. Re:No Thanks by Peach+Rings · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why:

      1. Would you have silverlight installed
      2. Wouldn't you view the picture if you had silverlight installed?
    3. Re:No Thanks by brasselv · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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    4. Re:No Thanks by bryonak · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

  2. Re:[Note: requires Silverlight] by B4light · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OMG, Tribalism

  3. Re:Works with Moonlight... by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Re:Works with Moonlight... by flerchin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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