p2pnet.net News:- Check out the picture on the right.

It’s a tiny (and we do mean tiny) section from the largest digital photograph in the world, made by TNO TPD, part of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.

The complete TNO pic shows Delft and surroundings from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 meters (slightly more than 328 feet).

With 2.5 billion pixels, if the photo were printed it would measure 6.67 m X 2.67 m (300 dpi) – almost 22 feet long and close to nine feet tall.

For those of you who like all the techie details:

• Final image dimensions: 78.797 x 31.565 pixels
• Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
• Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
• Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
• Number of source images: 600
• Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)
• Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)
• Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125
• Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
• Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes
• Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours
• Time required to optimise project: 4 hours
• Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end pcs
• Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalise image: 2 days

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See:-
horny The 2.5 gigapixel photo, TNO TPD, November 16, 2004

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