Inauguration Photo

[Norm]

I hope this hasn't been posted but I did search and couldn't find anything.



Zoom in on the top corner of the distant building in the centre of the picture!!



It is really amazing ....





Can't believe this - the technology is mind-boggling !

This is a photo from the 2009 Inauguration in which you can see IN FOCUS the face of each individual in the crowd !!!



You can scan, double click and zoom to any section of the crowd. . . wait a few seconds. . . and the focus adjusts.



The picture was taken with a robotic camera at 1,474 megapixel. (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera)



Makes you wonder who's watching us right now !!!!!!!!




http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

 

[Penguin]

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Penguin]

hahaha, there's a pair of ghostly legs near the base of the large tower guess the photo wasn't taken in one shot

 

[DaFABRICATA]

hahaha, there's a pair of ghostly legs near the base of the large tower

LOL!!!

 

[qip]

wheres waldo :nana:

wow, i was mainly zooming in at the main stage , and slowly panning to the right , they got the whole crowd of millions in there

 

[Norm]

hahaha, there's a pair of ghostly legs near the base of the large tower guess the photo wasn't taken in one shot

Same guy seems to be standing next to himself, black guy in uniform.
Norm

 

[LuxLuthor]

That is pretty cool. Check this pix from building way in back. Can't quite make them out....but just to see them is unbelievable.

 

[LuxLuthor]

Looks like Michael and Vito Corleone. Also note that it looks like Clarence Thomas is sleeping. ROFL

 

[LuxLuthor]

Look! A Russian sitting next to the Clintons!

 

[LuxLuthor]

Here is a primo spot!

 

[AlexGT]

Anyone seen my legs?

 

[AlexGT]

Hey grandpa! Can I borrow your camera?

 

[TONY M]

Nice photograph... I wonder how many individual shots went into making the entire image? Must have taken a while to stitch together.

 

[LuxLuthor]

From that site:

I made this Gigapan image from the north press platform during President Obama's inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. It's made up of 220 images and the final image size is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels.

There are a few known stitching errors in the image. A NEW VERSION of the photo with all of the stitching errors corrected can be seen here:

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=17217

** LARGE FORMAT PRINTS OF THE NEW VERSION ARE AVAILABLE HERE:

http://gallery.pictopia.com/davidbergman/photo/7565856/

Read more about it on my blog at:

http://www.DavidBergman.net

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[LuxLuthor]

Check out this other Panaramic view of Hawaii's Hanauma Bay

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5322

 

[UncleFester]

Pretty cool. I guess it shouldn't be surprising considering what Google Earth does.....

 

[276]

This is really cool!! So i does this work you upload the photos and you can see it like this or something else???

 

[binky]

And it's no special camera, just a consumer Canon G10 as I recall. The holder that racks the thing horizontal & vertical, that's the only special mechanical thing, and not really very robotic (no movement algorithms there). The image stitching software seems to be the really special part, according to the manufacturer.

I don't understand how it's done with a G10, though. The snapshots can't be taken very quickly with that thing. Great camera, but not a 9+ fps wunderkam.

 

[tx101]

LOL ..... was the Inauguration Speech that boring ???

Plenty of people in the crowd who appear to be asleep :laughing:

 

[Cosmo7809]

No workie for me....

Now works