Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels

Post by zaat » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 1:32 PM UTC

jeffreymartin99 wrote: post #38

puranjay wrote: post #34

How are pictures like these taken? What kind of equipment would you need?

They are shot with a dSLR and a very long lens. This one was likely shot with a 300mm lens. The camera is mounted on a programmable robot, and a mosaic of photos is created. They are then stitched together with software such as PTGui or kolor Autopano Giga. I've shot a number of images like this, in fact some of them over 4x bigger than this one. My largest one, of Prague, was released 2 weeks ago: http://360gigapixe…

Post by hugecannon » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

hopler wrote: post #50

hugecannon wrote: post #44

It's interesting seeing how they dealt with moving objects like the boats. If you scan anti-clockwise until the river is hidden behind the buildings you should see two tour boats with "China Bohai Bank" on the side. One appears to be pulling in and one pull out. If you look at the passengers - it's actually the same boat. If you follow the river clockwise, you'll see two barges carrying dark material. Again, these ar…

Why would that be manual and not an artifact of movement between snapshots? If it were manual effort,why wouldn't they erase a duplicate?

Post by scoot » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 2:29 PM UTC

reimertz wrote: post #12

verdverm wrote: post #5

I spy Mickey mouse

Or the two action hero kids + two cool parents

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stuxnet79 wrote: post #56

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