Gigapan: View from Pinnacles @ Duxton 2

Another viewpoint.

Gigapan: Construction Site

When I created panoramas previously I usually dont exceed 100 MegaPixel because it is good enough for (very) large prints and I rather have a perfect 100 MP version without seams and changing light conditions than a 1GPixel version with all these faults. Until some time back my hardware was also limited and large stitches were not an option. Now any decent desktop PC can easily be equipped with 12 to 16GB RAM and with a Windows or Ubuntu 64 bit version on a recent CPU, you get fast rendering times.

I just made a 550 MPixel (or 0.55 GigaPixel) created from 60 images shot with Canon 5D MK II and 7-200 L IS.

Gigapan: Maximilian Strasse Speyer

Gigapixel Record Hunt

2 years back there were only few images on gigapan.org with a serious "big" resolution, now with the production release EPIC devices more highres panoramas are out there.
A bit longer breathtaking new super records of high resolution images come up every now and then.

• First there was Bryce Canyon National Park with 1.09 GP breaking the 1 GP barrier in 2003
  
  
  
• Then came the Harlem 13 GP Project (2006)
  
  
  
• Then Yosemite in 17 GP
  
  
  
• Then Paris and Dresden followed with 26 GP
  
  
  
• Dubai in 45 GP (April 2010)
  
  
  
• and now Budapest in 70 GP !!!
  

Conclusion: We will see more of this kind coming up, and it is amazing at what detail level you can "zoom around" in these images. I recomend reading the technical background of the above projects, as you need serious project preparation, support (maybe some $$$) and serious CPU power. Guess I will stick to the "less-than-10 GP" department.

Remarks:

• You find more gigapixel project if you research, some of them based on film (Gigapxl Project). Unfortunately some of the early projects are not online anymore.