Technology is getting scary

[Greedo]

although this would be cool when you've been to a football game or a concert.

Pretty cool though

Zoom on in on anyone

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

 

[Night Train]

Nah, no good. They got him while he was blinking!

 

[Arch]

Count all the ones who aren't looking at him, and then work out which ones are undercover CIA, scanning the crowd for assassins..

 

[marinyork]

I wondered whether that was digital camera or film. Large parts of the ceremony were filmed in HD. It could have been taken off film and scanned for the extra detail.

 

[Crackle]

It's not one picture it's many stitched together. Zoom in and you can see where the stitching program hasn't quite got it right and put people's heads to one side of their body. There's similiar shots of the Grand Canyon and a few other places. In fact I have the software on my computer to make those shots. The one below used exactly that technique. It's made of about 10 different shots to get the whole bay in.

 

[Arch]

Yes, my boss has something similar, he gets some great 360 shots.

It's only really an update of the old motorised school photo camera, where people used to try and run round the back to get in the pic at both ends...

 

[marinyork]

I know such things exist, I've seen plenty of NASA images stitched together for years. It's the quality of the tv pictures and presumably half the world's press there too.

 

[col]

Thats an impressive picture for detail, I was wondering what mp the camera was, until I read on about the stitching, but it would still have to be a very good camera, expensive to eh?

 

[Crackle]

Camera can be surprisingly cheap to obtain reasonable results. Because of the way it works, the image edges, where most obvious lens faults occur, effectively gets discarded (but not necessarily). You also only need use the prime part of the lens, no extreme wide angles or telephotos. So if you have a 6MP camera and take 10 images, you end up with an effective 60MP image (It doesn't quite translate but you see what I'm driving at).

The difficulty occurs as the images get bigger. You need some prime computing power to render and stitch the images. An overnight render is not uncommon.

 

[HLaB]

My camera claims it can do that but I've never tried.

 

[Young Un]

My phone lets me stitch three together, and gives me a litle ghost of the previous image at the side so you can line it up properly

 

[mr Mag00]

i got him with a head shot!!

 

[Shaun]

Am I the only one who spotted the three bunny girls in pink bikini's?

At the back, on the right. B)

 

[Night Train]

In the centre of the shot is the gantry full of cameras. At the base is a policeman having a smoke. Walking towards him on the path is a pair of disembodied legs.

 

[Crackle]

In the centre of the shot is the gantry full of cameras. At the base is a policeman having a smoke. Walking towards him on the path is a pair of disembodied legs.

To the right and below him is a woman standing holding a baby. She has half a head.

At the back on the press gantry more than a few have their heads next to their bodies B)