Category: Record images
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6 giga-pixel Tokyo
Once again a gigantic digital image: Tokyo shot with GigaPan. Can you find Waldo (er, no! the dancing policeman)? Source: Photoart – Kalmar, via YLovePhoto.
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Mega-pixel Obama
David Bergman created a large superb image of more than a billion pixels during Barack Obama’s inaugural address in Washington, on January 20th. Source: YLovePhoto.
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The longest photo
After showing here several record images in terms of resolution, here is a picture (with its own incredibly large quantity of pixels) of a record length: 100 meters. Here, panorama takes it to such extremes… It was taken over the course of 20 days and includes 178 different people. Source: Simon Hoegsberg, via The Online…
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Big camera?
Certainly! Here comes a photo camera with 1400 mega-pixels. This is the camera installed in Hawai in the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PanSTARRS) telescope. I say that when Kirkland AFB builds a photo camera, Canon, Nikon, Sony and the others should bow and admire. Source: Really Rocket Science.
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Giant Yosemite photo
What is clearly one of the largest digital photos ever taken is presented by Gerard Maynard. 17-giga-pixel image where you can zoom in to look at interesting details.
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Diffraction and digital photography
Several times, I talked about the limitation to photo image quality by light diffraction but I failed to go into the details. To the general request of one reader who asked, I will try to give some explanations to better understand why the digital photographer must absolutely take that into account to make better pictures…