At maximum Zoom, interesting anomalies. See if YOU can find this one.
AMAZING PHOTO — CLICK HERE — If you want to see an amazing photo go look at this one. And it’s not because it’s perfectly composed or gorgeous. It’s just plain fascinating. When you do immediately zoom in to the max and see what you can see. Wild. Amazing.
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
The 2.5 gigapixel image is a composition of images rather than a single image. TNO developed a sophisticated approach to merge the many images – all 600 of them. The photos were taken automatically using a modern consumer camera and a powerful 400 mm lens. The camera was positioned automatically using a computer-controlled pan-tilt unit. Each of the 600 photos overlaps, an arrangement that ensured very accurate positioning and enabled us to stitch the images automatically into one giant image of 78,797 by 31,565 pixels. The most difficult tasks were processing these large images and comparing the overlapping images.
reported by Robert Dybas
That’s actually pretty old – I think I saw it 1+ years ago.
I found a neat one of the back half of a car superimposed onto the rear end of a bus. It’s about halfway up the major street that’s just to the left of center.
Make that, to the other left of center.
Nothing new about that. I think I have seen one that is a different image. But I think it was 6 gigapixel. Maybe i am wrong but I have defiently seen it before.
> Someday all photos will be like this…
No. Not likely. The optics would be way to expensive. As the Mega Pixels increase the optics start to play a large roll. Its already starting to happen.
You would also need a sophisticated image stabilizer as hand holding would be impossible to keep it steady enough..