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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. Re:No Thanks by blirp · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, it requires Silverlight. Even with Moonlight installed I get:

    Sorry, but Silverlight is not supported on this operating system.
    Silverlight works on Windows and on Mac OS (Intel only).

    ... kind of strange.

    M.

  2. Re:No Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Your loss.

    Works fine in Chrome.

  3. Wonderful by AnonymousClown · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And the ability to zoom in to certain views was pretty awesome. If Ansel Adams were alive today, I wonder what his opinion would be and if he would use such a technique. He would have ot do something. Many of the films he liked to use are no longer in production - at least in the 4x5 format he liked.

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    RIP America

    July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001

  4. Re:fsck Silverlight by gnalle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here is a html5-demo that does the same. It works well on Chrome, but no so well in Mozilla Iceweasel 3.5.11 http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/DeepZoom/Default.html

  5. Re:No Thanks by T-Bone-T · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wasting time? I don't even remember installing silverlight and it seems I did at some point. If it was a waste of time, I would have remembered it.

  6. Isn't Google Earth a larger digital picture? by SlideGuitar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems like Google Earth qualifies as a much larger "picture".... continuously linked pixels creating a visual representation of reality resembling that which you would see if you looked with your eyes.

    Define "picture" or "photograph" as you will... many map databases integrate images to create images that are vastly larger and more interactive.