Around the world: the best gigapixel panoramas of cities and attractions from around the world. Interesting things on the web! The largest image in the world

In 2014, a team of photographers took on the difficult task of making the world's largest panorama. The subject of the photo was one of the highest mountains in the world - Mont Blanc. The result was an image of 365 gigapixels, which is 45 gigapixels more than the previous record holder - the panorama of London.

To create the panorama, 70 thousand photographs weighing 46 terabytes were taken. The team took photographs over 15 days and post-production took two months. The team spent all this time at an altitude of 3.5 kilometers above sea level. Full size panorama is available on the website.

In 2010, a team of enthusiasts, sponsored by Epson, Microsoft and Sony, pioneered 360° panoramic photography in the world at that time. The 70-gigapixel photo was taken from the 100-year-old observation tower in Budapest. The panorama was more than 590 thousand pixels wide and 121 thousand pixels high. Unfortunately, the link to the panorama is not working right now.

In front of you is the largest photograph in the world. An international team led by photographer Filippo Blengini has released a giant panoramic photograph of the mountain range that includes Mont Blanc, Western Europe's highest mountain. The new resolution record that this panorama set is 365 gigapixels. This is 45 Gp more than the previous record holder, a 320 gigapixel image of London, which was published in 2013.

This is what the Mont Blanc panorama looks like if you expand the full frame:

And this is a crop at 100% scale – climbers on the mountainside near the center of the frame:

To create the panorama, five team members spent two weeks at the end of 2014 on one of the snow-capped Alpine peaks at an altitude of about 3,500 meters at a temperature of -10°C. Using a Canon 70D DSLR, a Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 II IS lens, and a Canon Extender 2X III teleconverter with a custom motorized tripod, they captured 70,000 photographs over more than 35 hours of filming.

Subsequent post-processing and stitching of 46 TB of information took 2 months, and the result was a 365 Gp image, which, if printed in “print quality” 300 dpi, would be the size of a football field.

A half-minute video explains how the panorama was made:

You can view the 365-gigapixel photograph for yourself through the interactive viewer on the project website.

I was a little disappointed in the places with rough and poor-quality gluing that appear in the picture...

Strictly speaking, there is another photograph, the resolution of which is even higher, and much more so. True, it was not made on Earth. In 2014, NASA published a panorama of the lunar surface that was taken over four years by the Lunar Orbiter. The resolution of that image was 681 Gp.

With the advent of the latest modern digital cameras with powerful lenses, super fast computers and advanced photo imaging technologies, professionals have the ability to take highly detailed photographs. What do we mean by “detailed” - gigapixel photos?.

Let's explain with an example. Have you seen good photographs taken, say, with a 10 megapixel camera? Isn't it a very large and detailed photograph? But the largest photo in the world is only 1500 times larger than this photo.

Here is a piece from the largest photo in the world. We marked with an arrow a man running along the beach.

"The biggest photo"

Do you see? Why not? . There he is! Let's take a closer look.

"The biggest photo"

What a pity that the air in large cities is not so clean... A little gray at maximum magnification.

How does it all work? Yes, almost without human intervention. We take a special device for taking gigapixel photographs - EPIC, take a professional camera with a very powerful lens, and connect it to this device. Then we set the necessary shooting parameters and enjoy a positive life while the equipment works.

"The biggest photo"

We decided to give this place not to the tenth largest photograph in the world. And just a beautiful panorama with insects. Of course there are photographs 100 times larger. There are only 23 photos here, but look at the detail!

The panorama was made as part of the work to digitize the collection of the North Carolina State Insect Museum

By the way, they forgot to say. To view you need Flash player. Or download the browser Google Chrome, it already has this thing built in

"The biggest photo"

In September 2009, the site appeared - www.paris-26-gigapixels.com - the most interactive site with such a large gigapixel photo panorama. Very clear resolution, 2346 photographs describing the French capital and its famous monuments

8th place 43.9 Gigapixels - photo panorama of the backyard

"The biggest photo"

The photographs were taken in the village of Round Lake (Illinois) on August 22, 2010. The total number of images was 4048. A Canon 7D camera and a 400mm lens were used for photography. Approximate shooting time 2 hours and processing time 7 days

7th place. 44.8 Gigapixels - photo panorama of the city of Dubai

"The biggest photo"

Dubai is the largest city in the United Arab Emirates. To make this photo panorama, the author had to work for more than three hours in 37 degree heat, since the entrance to the construction site was only accessible at this time. The total number of photographs is 4250. A Canon 7D camera and a 100-400mm lens were used.

6th place. 47 Gigapixels - photo panorama of the city of Marburg.

"The biggest photo"

Marburg is a university town with a population of approximately 78 thousand. The photo was taken from a tower at a height of 36 meters from the ground. I used a Nikon D300 camera and a Sigma 50-500mm lens. A gigapixel photo panorama consists of 5,000 photographs, each of which is 12.3 megapixels. The shooting time was 3 hours 27 minutes. The total amount of occupied information on the hard drive is 53.8 GB

5th place. 50 Gigapixels - photo panorama of Vienna - the capital of Austria

"The biggest photo"

The name of the project is 70 billion pixels of Budapest - the capital of Hungary. A very colorful photo frame made in 2010. It’s immediately obvious that they were created for the capital. The photographs were taken over 4 days. The total number of photographs is about 20 thousand.

In 2010, a team of enthusiasts, sponsored by Epson, Microsoft and Sony, created the largest 360° panoramic photograph in the world at that time. The 70-gigapixel photo was taken from the 100-year-old observation tower in Budapest. The panorama was more than 590 thousand pixels wide and 121 thousand pixels high. Unfortunately, the link to the panorama is not working right now.