Artifacts at full view? Try a 26 GPx photo.

[FD]

Give the reviewers some work. A 26 Gigapix panorama of Dresden, currently the largest photo in the world.

The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes. The converting of 102 GB raw data by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB and 16 processors took 94 hours. With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)

[vonkara]

This resolve the problem to find some worthy subject. Now you juste have to crop your panoramas. Nice find !

[Kngkyle]

Insane.

[leaf]

that is crazy zooming in and out.

[MicrostockExp]

Amazing:) a bit smaller but still a 18Gpx photo, in Prague this time:
http://www.360cities.net/prague-18-gigapixels

[vonkara]

Now that one is nice. Make me want to go in the olympic stadium tower here in Montreal and take a couple of snapshots. Maybe all worthless because of the windows but anyway.

[eppic]

Here's your ticket to making images like that:

http://www.gigapansystems.com/

While 26 giga-pixels might be a bit much, you can still make some pretty skookum images with this baby.

[FD]

Stitched panoramas do well, I noticed. The software also got much better. Did anybody try the stitching package that came with the 5D-MKII?

[leaf]

Stitched panoramas do well, I noticed. The software also got much better. Did anybody try the stitching package that came with the 5D-MKII?

what?  there are stitching packages with the 5D MKII

I have stitched around 6 photos together for microstock panos, just using photoshop, and it works very well.  Submitting those to the micros though, they have to be downsized a lot.

[Read_My_Rights]

Still unacceptable for microstock. Sensor spots in the sky. Rejected

[FD]

what?  there are stitching packages with the 5D MKII

I think I made a mistake, sorry.

[photoBeard]

Now I really want to upgrade for a 5D to a 5D II !!!!!  And of course I want their computer to go with that..............

[WarrenPrice]

Now I really want to upgrade for a 5D to a 5D II !!!!!  And of course I want their computer to go with that..............

Me too.  Computing power is what holds me back from venturing into video.   

[bendicks]

Here is my attempt at a multi-image horizontal/vertical build....

Loon Lake Panorama View, located in El Dorado county, California, This shot consists of 36 different images stitched together to form a single image that was 51,444 pixels wide by 8,532 pixels tall. I reduced this image by 50% so that it is 25,944 pixels in width (did'nt have enough memory to convert the full sized image).This was then diced up into 1500 separate images to produce the zooming/panning abilities without downloading a massive image across the internet.

The scroll wheel works to zoom and you can grab the image to slide it around when zoomed in.

http://sierramc.com/zoomloon/

-Don

[Randy McKown]

3 hours of robot shooting + 94 hours stitching together 1,665 photos = 1 really big snapshot ..... potential copyrights, bad composition, limited commercial value, total waste of time LMAO !!!!!!

[No Longer Cares]

I use CS4 now to stitch my panos, but I use to use a great tool called ArcSoft Panorama Maker.  I had version 4 and it did great.  It�s very easy to use for beginners also.

Now that I use Lightroom, CS4 is easy also.  I just select all the images I want to put together and right click.  there is a "Send to CS4 ..." option that makes it easy.

[FD]

http://sierramc.com/zoomloon/

Fantastic! (there is a Wall-mart shopping bag at the extreme right  )