How to make a gigapixel picture

[Buck]

For all those interested in photography, this must have been a fun experiment:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4022149.stm

 

[ddrueding]

Neat. They say the image is available on the web, but they don't give a link to the site...

 

[Will Rickards]

http://www.tno.nl/gigapix

 

[Buck]

Neat. They say the image is available on the web, but they don't give a link to the site...

Check the navigation bar to the right.

 

[Will Rickards]

It appears the site has exceeded its traffic allotment.
I was this linked from the register a few days ago.

 

[Will Rickards]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/17/worlds_biggest_snap/

 

[ddrueding]

Max Lyon's Digital Image Gallery is amazing...I just blew away 30 minutes surfing around. Really tempted to buy some of his work...

 

[Buck]

I need to take some more pictures. I like those panoramic pictures from the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and also from Scotland. The "stacked" effect is cool, but I should be able to create that with one shot through my manual XG-1.

 

[RWIndiana]

Sheesh, wish I had the time to do stuff like that.

 

[JSF]

Thanks Buck and ddrueding for drawing my attention to those sites. The photographs are mind-blowing!.

I forwarded the sites to an old friend who is webmaster of the following:

http://www.haltoncrimestoppers.com/ip_arcfet.html

He has featured the Max Lyon site in his newsletter.

Joe.

 

[LunarMist]

I saw Max in Colorado this September. You should see his equipment for panoramas. First he hauls out three big blocks of wood for a base, then sets up a huge, heavy tripod - the kind usually used for telescopes and such. There is a mounting system which allows movement on multiple axes for multi-row pans. So I felt a bit silly shooting 25-50 megapixel single-row vertical pans with the 1Ds on a CF tripod.

 

[ddrueding]

Out of curiosity, what is your subject when shooting single-row vertical pans?

 

[LunarMist]

Probably 95% of the subjects are horizontal, stationary scenics. Whether the body is vertical or horizontal depends on the final output and needed quality. A vertical pan of a horizontal scene theoretically yields 50% higher resolution than a horizontal pan. If the image were the usual 2:3 proportions the file would be about 22 megapixels after trimming, up to about 50 megapixel for ~1:3.3 proportions. Add 50% more pixels for the 1Ds MK II. :eekers:

I am not a panomaniac for sure. Basically I just use typical equipment (B1 monoball and Kirk L plate) and add a RRS B200 macro focusing rail at a right angle to get the nodal point over the center of rotation. The B200 is lightweight and relatively flat, so it packs well and is easy to attach quickly when needed and then remove for normal use.

 

[Buck]

WIRED NEWS
Photographer Seeks Resolution
Leander Kahney and Associates
02:00 AM Feb. 07, 2005 PT

Physicist Graham Flint is working on an ultra-high-resolution portrait of America -- a series of gigantic, gigapixel images taken with a custom camera made from bits and pieces of decommissioned Cold War hardware.

Weighing more than 100 pounds, Flint's camera captures images at 4 gigapixels -- a resolution high enough to photograph four football fields and capture every single blade of grass.

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