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[eamo]

The resolution is amazing.

It's 500 times more resolution than your 5 megapixel camera can do.

Try zooming in on the smallest details.


http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite600.html

[Derrek]

Says, "Could not be found"

[eamo]

[Sage Monkey]

NICE, I could actually read the license plate on the cars and tell you what the people are wearing... clearly too! Too bad this camera is massively out of my price range. Also, how big would an image file at this resolution be?

Though, I just noticed that if you follow the road that goes up the middle of the picture, there are several image errors due to bad photoshop editing, this picture has been modified a lot. In places, there are cars and people that weren't originally there.

[Bulsajo]

Zoomed in on the couple on bikes. Those bikes scream Netherlands.

[Sage Monkey]

[inexhile]

Some strange things happen when you zoom right in. A car and a bus morph into 1, and a guy crossing the street has no legs.

[mindmetoo]

This has to be a hoax.

[itaewonguy]

OHH MY GOD!!! you have to kidding me!!

I zoomed right into that apartment building right in the back of the picture DAMN!! this should be ILLEGAL!!
when can I buy one???

[Demophobe]

Well, the European Space Agency has built a 1 gigapixel (a gigapixel is 1024 megapixels) digital camera for its upcoming Gaia space telescope, due for launch in 2010...not 2.5.....

This is as they say on the site...."produced", not "taken"...

Below are some facts and figures about the gigapixel image:

Final image dimensions: 78.797 x 31.565 pixels
Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
Number of source images: 600
Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)
Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)
Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125
Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes
Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours
Time required to optimise project: 4 hours
Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end pcs
Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalise image: 2 days

[Ryst Helmut]

Look in the back of the black hatchback (tag FP VG 11...to the right of the red truck and left of the tower)...is that a hand and middle finger? Obvouisly, a gag-hand....but is it?

Ahhh, the Dutch!


!shoosh

Ryst

[Manner of Speaking]

I think the faces and heads have been airbrushed. Anytime I try to zoom in on someone who is not turned away, they have no head.

[Ryst Helmut]

[thorin]

[Demophobe]