INAUGURATION 2009 - Amazing 1,474 megapixel photo

[BobDiGiTaL]

Subject: INAUGURATION 2009 - Amazing 1,474 megapixel photo

Now, this IS a camera!

This is a truly amazing piece of current technology . . . or better yet: wizardry!! Please allow it a few minutes to completely load and then "do use" the tools available in the upper left side of the screen to zoom in and navigate around. If you ever wanted some proof about how "big brother is watching" as well as how much he can see at any given time . . . This is the evidence.

Photo by NYC photographer David Bergman using a robotic shooting system and stitching software called Gigapan.

"My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes."


You can zoom in using either the slider at the top left of the screen or your mouse wheel. You can also click and drag the image around. Check out the people sitting behind Obama. Cheney in the wheel chair, Clarence Thomas taking a snooze during the speech, George Bush looking not too thrilled with it all.

Pick out anyone in the crowd and ZOOM IN, truly amazing!

Here ya go:

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullsc...648c2b4b06233c

[Justin Hulsey]

Yeah that picture is nuts, the rows of people never stop...

[draggar]

Wow, I remember seeing the first gigapixel picture last year, this is even just as amazing.

[Carter]

Nice photo!

[Seraphim]

Thanks for sharing. Amazing technology.

[HomerJ]

quite amazing. it would be awesome if they had a way to save zoom coordinates so you could point out interesting things and people could pan and zoom to it instantly.

for instance i found something quite strange.

zoom in on the tall white platform with all the camera guys on it. then pan down to the base of the tower, and look about 4 o'clock

there's a pair of legs walking with no body!



ROFL!! also just notice that Cheney in the wheelchair looks exactly like the jeffrey lebowski

"nothing is fu**ed? .. the god damn plane has crashed into the mountain!"

[BELLC1]

I actually see quite a few people with closed eyes, all in back of W. Look at the guy 4 rows directly in back of W -- is he sneezing?

If you look carefully, you might see me in the crowd, the guy with the winter jacket on.

[Onward]

Supreme court judge, Clarence Thomas is sleeping...he is right behind Obama.

[draggar]

I actually see quite a few people with closed eyes, all in back of W. Look at the guy 4 rows directly in back of W -- is he sneezing?

If you look carefully, you might see me in the crowd, the guy with the winter jacket on.

Not sure but you can see one person has two heads. I guess that's where the pictures were put together.

[ZeRohiLL]

overall totally amazing, i have a nice kodak that takes multiple pics and stitches them together to get a panoramic pic.

there are a few floating heads, and some other goofs from the stitch, but overall scary.

Aretha Franklin has a goatee

[draggar]

Aretha Franklin has a goatee

*lol* And a magical hat floating in front of her, blocking her view.

that whole stitch isn't that great.

Extra scary: You can almost read some of the services' name badges..

[CureCancer]

very cool tool

[Banned: theinvestor]

No one is sleeping in the picture...it's a photo that no one knew was being taken.

Are people allowed to blink ?

The nice thing about the photo is if you were there...you should see yourself in the pic...that's a nice part of history to cherish...

I just feel sorry for those who can't be seen because of the large tree.