The 2.5 gigapixel photo

gre_soul · 15-02-2005 12:01pm #1

pano photo

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.

pretty impressive, you can zoom in to a level that makes wally very hard to find indeed!

FX Meister · 15-02-2005 12:09pm

I think this has been posted before. Interesting though. Just a load of other pictures stiched together so it's not really 2.5 billion pixels

garthv · 15-02-2005 12:13pm

thats what a panoramic pic is no?

Goodshape · 15-02-2005 12:22pm

seen better to be honest... There's a satellite photo of New York sometime after 11/09/01 that's really breathtaking. Load it up in Photoshop at 'Fit on screen' pixels and you think 'wow, thats pretty neat!', then you zoom in - and in - and in. At 100% you can make out people on the street and read signs on buildings.

Wish I had a link, but I got it from a friend (who got it from one of the unlinkable places I think).

FX Meister · 15-02-2005 3:49pm

GaRtH_V wrote:

thats what a panoramic pic is no?

Yeah it's along the same lines as a homemade panoramic picture but a lot more complex.

gobby · 17-02-2005 12:10pm

This was posted before. Its class though!

JackKelly · 17-02-2005 11:26pm

yea.I've seen it before. Its amazing. Not as good as my 4.0Mp Canon though!

gobby · 18-02-2005 9:03am

TimAy wrote:

yea.I've seen it before. Its amazing. Not as good as my 4.0Mp Canon though!

lol

The 2.5 gigapixel photo

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