What a 600,000-megapixel-wide picture looks like

Post by Stratoscope » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 6:40 AM UTC

replax wrote: post #77

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #67

Hi, I'm the photographer who made this image. Thank you for all the attention :-) Let me try to answer some of your questions, in no particular order: 1) Here is the original page: http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/ also here is a youtube screen capture showing a few highlights, if you are feeling lazy ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NboCijiLwmI 2) it is not 600,000 megapixels. It is 600,000 pixe…

Hi! Thanks a lot for makeing the Image, truly a great piece! I have a question, actually concerning the mori tower building: Where did you take it from? From the very top where you can go outside? Problem would be, that you couldn't go to the very edge of the building, or were you somehow able to? And, do you maybe have a "behind the scenes" video of some sort, or just a few shots showing how you are working :D? Than…

Post by cpeterso » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 7:10 AM UTC

Sami_Lehtinen wrote: post #41

Strange, it crashes my FF every time.

Post by nakedrobot2 » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 7:33 AM UTC

replax wrote: post #77

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #67

Hi, I'm the photographer who made this image. Thank you for all the attention :-) Let me try to answer some of your questions, in no particular order: 1) Here is the original page: http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/ also here is a youtube screen capture showing a few highlights, if you are feeling lazy ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NboCijiLwmI 2) it is not 600,000 megapixels. It is 600,000 pixe…

Hi! Thanks a lot for makeing the Image, truly a great piece! I have a question, actually concerning the mori tower building: Where did you take it from? From the very top where you can go outside? Problem would be, that you couldn't go to the very edge of the building, or were you somehow able to? And, do you maybe have a "behind the scenes" video of some sort, or just a few shots showing how you are working :D? Than…

Post by panacea » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 9:45 AM UTC

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #85

panacea wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Most of those things would not be embarrassing in other cultures (I think) such as a woman hanging laundry, but Japan is "different". Why is it culturally embarrassing to hang laundry in Japan? (Awesome stuff!)

> is it culturally embarrassing to hang laundry in Japan? she was handling underwear which is seen as a private activity.

Post by Someone » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 11:56 AM UTC

maaku wrote: post #61

tomjen3 wrote: post #50

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I assume that the government has better than normal classified satelite tech, so how do you know what kinds of resolutions are possible?

Atmospheric effects. Atmospheric refraction adds significant noise, fully obscuring features smaller than about 0.25 m. Yes, ground telescopes have ways of cancelling out atmospheric effects, but the required calibration and long exposure is impossible with the orbit of spy satellites.