Whilst going through my RSS reader, I came across this amazing achievement of tech and photography via Photography Blog. An amazing 70 Gigapixel 360° panoramic photograph of Budapest.
The photograph was taken from a 100-year-old observation tower built on the highest point of Budapest, the stitched panorama is over 590,000 pixels wide by nearly 121,000 pixels tall. The young Hungarian photographers used two Sony A900 bodies – each outfitted with a Minolta AF 400mm f/4.5 APO G lens and 1.4x teleconverter – on a sturdy tripod complete with a custom-designed robotic head. The image capturing stage of the project took over three hours to finish. The source images were then stitched with Autopano Giga software and this process took two full days and resulted in a 200GB file!!
Click the image below to see the panorama on their website ( you will need microsoft Silverlight installed)
All content © 2010 by Acuity Designs
[...] Tutorial (0)September 7, 2008 — 30-Second Sepia Effect Photoshop Tutorial (2)July 27, 2010 — 70 GigaPixel Photo of Budapest (0)January 26, 2010 — Aurora Borealis Typopgraphy Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial (17)December 8, [...]
Awesome!!! It must be a gigantic effort to stitch plenty of those different shots. Love this.
[Reply]