“This impressive panorama is actually a collection of 592 distinct photos, shot with a Canon Powershot with a 360mm zoom, and the help of a nifty gadget called the GigaPan Epic. Plop your camera into the device and it will automatically take between 20 and several hundred slightly overlapping pictures of a scene. The GigaPan software stitches them together for you into one massive, ultra-detailed, thousands-of-megapixels collage.
…Because the files are so large -- the photo above is 2,326 megapixels; a 2,000-shot image will weigh in around 6 gigapixels -- they're a pain to email, so upload them to gigapan.org to share with the world. GigaPan's viewer functions like Google Maps, sending only as much information as you need, and gathering more as you zoom in closer.”
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