Largest Digital Photograph in the World

thrill12 writes "Dutch research institute TNO has unveiled what it believes is the largest digital photograph in the world. The image contains 2.5 gigapixels or 7.5 gigabyte worth of data. It is composed of 600 single images shot by a computer-controlled pan-tilt unit in 7 second intervals. Afterwards, all photos where stiched together (compare: panorama tools) using the capacity of 5 high-end pc's in about 24 hours time."

Have these people nothing better to do?

[Timesprout]

Seriously what is the point in monster photograph that only a handful of people will ever see in its 7.5 GB fullness. This is nothing more than a crappy PR stunt and Slashot is rapidly turning into advertising central.

Re:Legit?

[PoopJuggler]

If it was sufficiently overcast for that hour, the light would be so diffuse that it probably wouldnt matter much. You could easily correct it in Photoshop if you did happen to get a couple frames with more/less light.

Re:file size limitation?!?

[isecore]

On Linux, ext2 has a 2 gig size limit, but ext3 and other modern filesystems don't have such a limit. I'm also fairly sure that Windows XP has no such limit on NTFS.

Funny, I managed to store a 5 gig file on my old EXT2-based server just the other day. Really weird thing is I managed to retrieve it just fine as well! *gasp*

Server Slashdotted

[Alien54]

that's what they get for linking directly to the graphic in question. [insert smile] How many guys have the time to download the image?

10 to 30 hours on a functional high speed line on a good day

50 to 60 days for you folks still on dialup