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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]."

6 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 Peach+Rings · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

    OMG, Tribalism

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.