Friday, December 18, 2009

26,031,250,000 Pixels Make This the Biggest Photo in the World [Image Cache]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/SbtZYevoEOY/26031250000-pixels-make-this-the-biggest-photo-in-the-world

It took 172 minutes on a rooftop to shoot 1655 overlapping 21.6 megapixel images and 94 hours to stitch them together. The result is not only a gorgeous 26 gigapixel view of Dresden, Germany, but also the world's biggest photo.

You can click on the image here for a slightly bigger version or follow the link for the super-dee-duper huge original which you can scroll and zoom through for the full effect. [Gigapixel Dresden via SZ Online via Slashdot]