Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo 207
hasanabbas1987 writes "It's just been a few months since a 45-gigapixel panorama of Dubai claimed the title of world's largest digital photograph, but it's now already been well and truly ousted — the new king in town is this 70-gigapixel, 360-degree panorama of Budapest. As with other multi-gigapixel images, this one was no easy feat, and involved two 25-megapixel Sony A900 cameras fitted with 400mm Minolta lenses and 1.4X teleconverters, a robotic camera mount from 360world that got the shooting done over the course of two days, and two solid days of post-processing that resulted in a single 200GB file — not to mention a 15-meter-long printed copy of the photograph for good measure. Of course, what's most impressive is the photo itself [Note: requires Silverlight]."
PS (Score:5, Informative)
Re:fsck Silverlight (Score:5, Informative)
I just viewed it. Its pretty awesome actually. Since you can't view it (?) let me describe it for you. When fully zoomed out, Budapest appears is a (pretty small) city in the distance and most of what you see is the surrounding countryside. Then with a very smooth zoom you keep zooming towards the city, until you see very clearly individual buildings and even people in the windows. Can you show me a Flash example of something like that?
Re:fsck Silverlight (Score:5, Informative)
Meet
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1739126&cid=33096788 [slashdot.org]
This too [gigapan.org] if you read TFS...
Works with Moonlight... (Score:4, Informative)
The idiots behind the site are using OS detection, so if you're using Moonlight on a non-Windows/OSX platform, you'll need to spoof your User-Agent string.
Other than that, it works just fine with Firefox & Moonlight on Linux.
Re:No Thanks (Score:2, Informative)
just pretend you have a mac and it works just fine with moonlight. install user agent switcher for firefox and use this agent setting:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0
Re:Works with Moonlight... (Score:5, Informative)
Spoofing as Firefox 3 on Vista worked for me.
Specifically:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
With Novell Moonlight 2.3.
Re:No Thanks (Score:2, Informative)