Gigapixel Photography

By Yosef Solomon on April 30th, 2009

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Introducing the new age of photography: Gigapixel Photography . This new idea of hyper detailed panoramic images is one of the coolest thing to hit the web since Google Earth. Imagine looking at a skyline shot of New York City and being able to see what the person on the 85 floor of the empire state building is doing. That is what you get with Gigapixel Photography.

I wonder if the government already has access to this new technology. Remember “Enemy of the State” with Will Smith? The government was able to track all his movements through satellite images. Just imagine if they had Gigapixel technology.

When viewing the Gigapixel images, they take a minute to load due to the shear mass of the actual image. Using the highest of high definition cameras, I can’t imagine the actual size of each of the images. The coolest Gigapixel image I found was of the Yaletown Condos in Vancouver BC.