Gigapixel Images - The Robot Behind it All

May 19th, 2009

I was floored when I saw gigabyte images for the first time in Digg. Wow, pretty cool, although I couldn't quite think of an application in my field of photography. This is a screen thing and since I mainly work with albums, images in the range of 10-20 Megapixels are more than enough resolution for me.

A gadget, no less.

They're produced kind of automatically with this machine:



Just plunk in one of their approved compact cameras, press a few buttons and wait for the shooting to end. Download all the images to the computer and run the image-stitching software.

Voila!

Squarely in gagapixel-nirvana, you can now zoom to your heart's content.

The website of Gigapan.

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