This panorama was the largest photograph in the world at the time of its public release
(September 13, 2010).
Check also this image at the Gigapan site, where you can
save snapshots and post coments.
1- Shooting
- Panorama taken in July 20th 2010
- 12238 images captured
- Total time of capture: 4h45min (nearly 1.4 seconds per shot)
2- Equipment
- Gigapan Epic Pro
- Manfrotto 161MK2B tripod
- Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 18 MP (5184 x 3456 pixels)
- Lens: Canon Zoom EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
with Teleconverter +2.0x (800 mm)
3- Processing
- Software Autopano Giga v2.0.9
- Processing time: nearly 120 hours (8 days)
- Computer Dell Precision Dual Pentium Xeon QC X5550 @ 2.66GHz
with 24GB RAM, 1TB HD and Ubuntu 10.04.
4- Image
- 211 columns x 68 rows of images mosaic
- Overlapping of approximately 25%
- Image size: 871708 x 174838 pixels
- Number of pixels: 152407 megapixels (or 152.41 gigapixels)
- File size without compression: 609630733236 Bytes (568 gigabytes)
- Field of view: 221.5 degrees wide by 44.4 degrees high (top=12.5, bottom=-32.0)
5 - Gigapan.org
- Uploaded in September 13th 2010
- Upload time: nearly 3 days
- http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/33b86c7f5e3f308c477ec61d9b45e17b/
6 - RioHK (Rio-Hong Kong Connection)
- Members: VISGRAF/IMPA (http://www.visgraf.impa.br/), RJ
and HKUST (http://www.cs.ust.hk/~psander/), Hong Kong