Must see - 26 Gigapixels of Paris

I used to play around with the technique of taking a roll (or several) of 36 35mm prints of one location, then making a collage of them, using different focal lengths and angles for a slight cubist effect.

But my simple brain just can't figure out how pictures can be stitched together automatically...
And you can zoom into the people on the Eiffel Tower!

From page 2
http://blog.paris-26-gigapixels.com/en/?page_id=2

Just imagine what can be done with 26 billion pixels…

Who is involved?

  • Kolor, a young innovative company based in the French Alps, is the world reference in the image-stitching solutions. Its software Kolor Autopano was used to automatically assemble the 2346 photos composing the Paris 26 Gigapixels image.
What about the technique?
Paris 26 Gigapixels was shot with very unique hardware: 2 Canon 5D Mark II (21.1 MP) each with a 300 mm f4.0 with a tele converter in order to get a 600mm /f8.0 needed to beat the record, mounted on a custom-made panoramic head.
The images were then stitched with the program Autopano Giga.

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