Thursday, January 22, 2009

Magnify Sector 7J. Magnify. Magnify. There!

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David Berman made a 1,474-megapixel photo during President Obama’s Inaugural Address showing the nearly two million people who watched him take the oath of office with a Gigapan Imager clamped to the railing on the north media platform. The Gigapan, in case you are like me and have never heard of it, is a robotic camera mount that allows one to take multiple images and stitch them together.

The final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. After more than six and a half hours for the software to stitch together all of the images on a Macbook Pro the final TIFF file is just shy of 2 gigabytes.

Use the controls to zoom and pan around the photo. You can also double click to zoom in and double click again to get even closer.

The headline is a Blade Runner quote in case you are wondering, see the movie and tell me we are not there, at least in terms of imaging.

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