70-Gigapixel Panorama of Budapest Takes Over as World’s Largest Photo

 

Just a couple months after we reported that a 45-gigapixel photo of Dubai had become the world’s largest, a new panorama has arrived to steal the crown. 70 Billion Pixels Budapest is a 70-gigapixel panorama of Budapest created using a setup of two 25-megapixel Sony A900 cameras fitted with 400mm Minolta lenses and 1.4X teleconverters. Four days of shooting resulted in 20,000 images, and an additional two days of post-processing produced a single 200 GB file. If printed, the size of the photo would be about two apartment blocks long and ten stories tall.

Here’s a photograph of the setup used:

You can head on over to their website to check out the photograph in a special viewer. You can zoom in to take a close look at the tiny little homes in the distance.

Any guesses as to how long it will be until the crown is passed on?


 

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  1. funny isn't it…the worlds largest, and quite possibly most boring photo…

  2. Short' says:

    A capital city could be boring? A world record could be boring? Ah, probably your photos are more entertaining.

  3. hehehehehe…nice try shorty…you've obviously never been to canberra… ;-)

  4. For tecnologic war, is greatty.

  5. [...] For the rest of us, we’ll have to be content with shooting gigapixel panoramas. [...]

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