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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]."

23 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 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 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.

    3. 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?
    4. Re:No Thanks by Peach+Rings · · Score: 5, Funny

      Count me in. Lets give this thing the force of an internet petition.

    5. 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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    6. 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.

    7. Re:No Thanks by adolf · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because I choose not to surrender my PC to a convicted monopolist.

      I still have a few machines on which I choose to run a filesystem written by a convicted murderer.

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  2. Lets make sure to focus on what's really important by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lets make sure that this discussion focuses on the fact that they presented it in Silverlight and not the open and saintly Flash format. I don't want to veer offtopic here into discussing "gigapixels" and "robotic camera stands". That's not what this site is about.

  3. 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

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

    OMG, Tribalism

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

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

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

    This too if you read TFS...

  7. Re:Amazing details! by Peach+Rings · · Score: 4, Funny

    And suddenly silverlight penetration in the Slashdot community triples.

  8. Too bad. by AnonymousClown · · Score: 5, Funny
    The they have scenes were you can zoom in to certain parts of the photo. The one that zooms in on the nude beach where it appears that they're filming some sort of Playboy type of thing is really nice.

    Anyway, you don't want to install Silverlight.....

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  9. 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 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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    2. 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.

    3. 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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  10. Re:fsck Silverlight by Zak3056 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All that processing, and couldn't create a Flash viewer for it?

    IOW: Damn Microsoft and their proprietary format. They should be more open, and use Adobe's proprietary format instead!

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  11. 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

  12. Enhance by poity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Enhance.. Enhance.. Enhance..

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  13. 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.