18-Gigapixel Panorama Offers Breathtaking View of Prague
Found on Wired on Saturday, 19 December 2009
The photo has been assembled from 600 shots clicked by a 21-megapixel Canon 5D Mark II camera and a 70-200mm lens, set to 200mm. The camera was mounted on a special robotic device that turned it tiny increments every few hours. The resulting data from the camera was about 40-gigabytes.
The photo measures 192,000 x 96,000 pixels, or 18.4 billion pixels altogether.
I a few years, there will probably be a camera that takes pictures like that with a single shot.