If you like and enjoy panoramic photographs, you are in for a real treat. Our friend Peter sent this in so thank you, Peter!
Gigapixel by Dresden.de is a collection of HUGE panorama pictures.
The main picture in the site has following technical characteristics and is set to go any photobug to go wow!
The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes. The converting of 102 GB raw data by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB and 16 processors took 94 hours. With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)
Each of the thumbnails you see in the above picture is actually zoomed in views within the picture. Just click on those to actually realize the real resolution of this composite image!
Enjoy.
