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Gigapixels!

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Posted by Dan Truong on March 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Obama at 1.3Gpix

Click on the photo of Bush to see the zoom-in. That was taken with a canon powershot, and the relatively cheap $380 gigapan engine, plus hours of stitching.

I was going to post this broader than CA forum, but not sure if it's appropriate to say "Digital Imaging" or "Gear review" forum...

Another cool gigapixel site is:
xrez.com

Enjoy!
Posted by Rodney Ninow on March 4, 2009 at 8:35 PM
I've seen this, it's amazing! And the rig is pretty inexpensive. Not sure about "hours of stitching" the software does the stitching for you.
Posted by Dan Truong on March 5, 2009 at 3:10 AM
It does, but if you look carefully, it takes hours. By hand it'd be days or weeks. Argh!
Posted by Rodney Ninow on March 5, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Ahh gotcha.

That photo is really cool. I like to zoom in and find things. Like Justice Roberts apparently asleep. And a bunch of people on the far right piling on top of a horse and rider statue. Also on the left, near some satellite dishes there is a guy with a large format, possibly speed graphic, camera.