This is amazing - Photograph Technology

[Razorguns]

They got 5k-10k still cameras out now that are so fucking bad-ass, you can take a pic of the inaugaural ceremony from far away - and still zoom in and see everyone's face close-up!!

Damn. Imagine if this became so cheap - convenience stores and banks had them.

The ability to translate that to video is probably 10-20 years ago, but tomorrow's technology will make today's HD look like betamax!

Fullscreen Gigapan Viewer

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[Dial_tone]

You're like...a month late on this one.

 

[nimbus]

that is really impressive. does one pic eat up like a whole memory stick?

 

[stilleto]

yes, but can you find denzel washington in that picture? i can.

 

[Razorguns]

I can't wait til 50 years from now - when soldiers will use ungodly powerful satellite video to see what people are doing in iraqi cities. Look thrugh window, see terrorists, press a button - boom, missile flies in.

Soon the era of soldiers running around with machine guns will look so dated and archaic. Who will create it, we will! usa! usa!

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[redsamurai]

I can't wait til 50 years from now - when soldiers will use ungodly powerful satellite video to see what people are doing in iraqi cities. Look thrugh window, see terrorists, press a button - boom, missile flies in.

Soon the era of soldiers running around with machine guns will look so dated and archaic. Who will create it, we will! usa! usa!

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in 50 years we'll have dragon ball z mother fuckers that will laugh at such technology. They'll detonate that incoming missile with a mere thought.

 

[jaybois]

Shit in 50 years humans will no longer need biological bodies.
The singularity will be achieved in 37 years.

Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[AAP]

bwahahahahahah

Look at these losers.

 

[chewyxrage]

interesting to look around at the various security.

Wonder how many bros they got in plain clothes in that pic

 

[AAP]

Ok, you guys ready for this?

That photo can be achieved with a point and shoot camera and the machine ($379) from here.

Gigapan Systems Online - System Page GigaPan Systems

I thought it was some kind of amazing high tech camera. But it isn't. Apparently (I only glanced at the link) the machine calibrates and executes a series of photographs from a camera that is then pano stitched into a large high res file.

(again, I didn't read through the site completely)

If someone does browse the site it woudl be interesting to know/learn how the machine does it and creates blur/movement free.

here is more info on the pic

Photography: 1,474 Megapixel Inauguration Panorama is a Treasure Trove of Candid Captures

 

[AAP]

http://www.yosemite-17-gigapixels.com/

 

[stilleto]

I found an area of that photo that was stitched. I'll look for it again, but there's a woman on the far side of the photo, with a wall behind her. She's holding a baby and the photo stitching happens down her one side, which is blurry and slightly off.

 

[Mr. dB]

I found an area of that photo that was stitched. I'll look for it again, but there's a woman on the far side of the photo, with a wall behind her. She's holding a baby and the photo stitching happens down her one side, which is blurry and slightly off.

There's a glitch right in front of Aretha Franklin too, makes it look like The Invisible Man is sitting in front of her.

 

[dabuffguy]

This technology isn't new.

Back in the 70's the SR-71 blackbird took pictures from 70,000 ft (14 miles) in the air and you could read the license plate off of a car.


Still, this is a really cool picture.

 

[jaybois]

Ain't nothing compared to hubble.

 

[stilleto]

There's a glitch right in front of Aretha Franklin too, makes it look like The Invisible Man is sitting in front of her.

here's a pic of the invisible man:

 

[dabuffguy]

Ain't nothing compared to hubble.

Lol.

Yeah, it can see galaxies like 1 billion light years away. I wish I had that as a toy.