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World's largest photo! (2.5 gigapixels)

Sirin

Sirin

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TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO.

Technical details:
  • Final image dimensions: 78.797 x 31.565 pixels
  • Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
  • Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
  • Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
  • Number of source images: 600
  • Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)
  • Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)
  • Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125
  • Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
  • Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes
  • Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours
  • Time required to optimise project: 4 hours
  • Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end pcs
  • Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalise image: 2 days
  • The photo was taken in Holland...
It's very amazing how far you can zoom in...

Direct link to photo:
:globe: http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/Delft2.htm
 
This is really, really, old...as in it was posted on MR over a year and a half ago. The links in the original post no longer work for whatever reason, but people liked it back then, too! 😀
 
If you zoom enough into a person's face, you can actually see individual cells! 😱

Ok, maybe not, but there's a "floating car" and other odd things that happen in this photo.
 
Sirin said:
TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO.

Technical details:
  • Final image dimensions: 78.797 x 31.565 pixels
  • Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
  • Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
  • Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
  • Number of source images: 600
  • Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)
  • Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)
  • Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125
  • Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
  • Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes
  • Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours
  • Time required to optimise project: 4 hours
  • Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end pcs
  • Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalise image: 2 days
  • The photo was taken in Holland...
It's very amazing how far you can zoom in...

Direct link to photo:
:globe: http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/Delft2.htm
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That is really really cool!
 
Yeah, I like this picture a lot. It's fun to spot different little things about it. I think we played a "where's waldo" the last time this came up on MR.
 
I wish I could've found this a couple of days ago when jsw had a crappy dial-up connection, I could've posted it in a bunch of threads he was trying to moderate under a really dirty title😀 😀
 
mpw said:
I wish I could've found this a couple of days ago when jsw had a crappy dial-up connection, I could've posted it in a bunch of threads he was trying to moderate under a really dirty title😀 😀
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Even that slow connection was fast enough for me to ban someone. 😉

BTW, I think it's very cool that they have someone wearing a Waldo shirt in the picture.
 
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