Author Topic: Gigapan  (Read 396 times)

Offline Wayout

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Gigapan
« on: January 17, 2011, 07:31:31 AM »
Amazing!

http://gigapan.org/gigapans/66626/

It doesn't look much when first the page is loaded, but zoom in and this
amazing photo will reveal its full potential:

Image dimension: 887276 (w) x 306908 (h)
Date taken: May 25, 2010
Shooting time: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Date stitched: Sept 20, 2010
Date open to public: Dec 20, 2010
Raw image size: 1.24 TB
Raw cropped image size: 1.09 TB
Total pixels: 272.31 G
Horizontal viewing angle: 175 degree
Vertical viewing angle: 65 degree (+5 degree to -60 degree)
Total shots: 12,000 (150 columns and 80 rows)
Lens: Canon 400mm F5.6 and 2X tele-converter
Camera: Canon 7D (18M pixels per image)
Estimated overlap: 28% (set to 25%)
Average time per image: 2.4s
Estimated optical pixels: 112G pixels
Projection: spherical

Check out the other stunning photos linked to in the text.

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Offline Penguin

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Re: Gigapan
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2011, 08:06:29 AM »
Holy Cow!  :O

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Offline Nilsen

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Re: Gigapan
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2011, 12:32:03 PM »
uh oh dont zoom in on the clothing hanging on the line left/low....

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Offline rpm

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Re: Gigapan
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2011, 04:15:57 PM »
They did some of those at the World Series. Pretty freaking amazing.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/ps/y2010/gigapan/index.jsp?gpId=f8edc84deecec47c713cb00742c5f87a
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Offline Killer91

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Re: Gigapan
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2011, 06:33:17 PM »
They did some of those at the World Series. Pretty freaking amazing.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/ps/y2010/gigapan/index.jsp?gpId=f8edc84deecec47c713cb00742c5f87a

They took some of those at the ALDS to... I found myself in the picture!
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