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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]."

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  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.

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

    OMG, Tribalism