What a Camera!

[Glenn Dawes]

Hi guys,

Amazing technology !

This is a photo from the 2009 USA presidential Inauguration, In which you can see IN FOCUS
The face of each individual in the crowd !!! Check out the depth of field as well (look at the camera lens to the left

You can scan and zoom to any section of the crowd wait a few seconds and the focus adjusts.

The picture was taken with a robotic camera at 1,474 megapixel. (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera)

Maybe one day we'll be searching single images covering entire globular clusters looking for planets around individual stars.

Regards

Glenn


http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033e f14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

[Octane]

Seen that one. Apparently Denzel Washington is in there somewhere, but, I haven't been able to find him.

Regards,
Humayun

[spacezebra]

This is an excellent example of camera technology!

Thanks for posting Glenn.

Cheers Petra d.

[AstralTraveller]

Strewth!

How many lenses and chips does that camera have??

[spearo]

WHAT!!!!
that's just not possible surely!
incredible
frank

[snowyskiesau]

Just one of each!
Check out the technology at Gigapan (http://gigapan.org/index.php). Surprisingly cheap.

[Jen]

:eyepop: wow that is so cool :thumbsup:

[Dennis]

On a photography Forum, I read that this amazing mosaic was taken with an ordinary Canon PowerShot G10 (http://www.canon.com.au/products/visual/cameras/digital_compact_cameras/powershotg10.aspx)digital consumer camera? Have I been conned by an urban myth!

Cheers

Dennis

[AstralTraveller]

OK I see. I can see how that is great for landscape panoramas. I've taken a few manually (I suppose many of us have) but never done the work to stitch them together (probably also common). But I wonder about scenes with moving subjects. No matter how quickly it operates surely peoples' movements must cause some artifacts. In fact the manufacturer's instructions state that this can be a problem. Yet I've just looked at part of the image (the stands at the left) at high magnification and can find no such artifacts. As Julius Sumner Miller said "Why is it so?"

[Glenn Dawes]

Yes, I can see a couple of artifacts. It's where someone has moved his/her head quickly and the edge of the scan goes through the face, leading to a double face. Obviously it wouldn't work in a sport situation, hence the landscape recommendation.

Glenn

[Baddad]

Er, like Wow! :eyepop:
Cheers Marty

[Ric]

They should be pointing that camera upwards not downwards.

[Screwdriverone]

I will bet you that there was a few of these stationed around the place probably hooked up to the FBI database scanning pictures of people's faces etc and taking a record of the crown periodically to ensure no-one was doing anything "naughty" or thinking about it.

After all, it WAS the inauguration of the first African American President.

There is just no way that this was just used as a "nice" picture of the crowd. Its a security camera.

Chris.

[RobF]

Cool! Found George, Bill and Hiliary easily enough. I'm not misbehaving next time I go near the US!

Looks pretty damned cold though!

:cold: :cold: :cold:

[Screwdriverone]

Ha HA , yes I thought the same thing. Especially those poor Media saps on the gantry opposite the camera and in front of the President. Michelle Obama must have had some new NASA built stockings as she was wearing a DRESS? when everyone is rugged up like the Michelin Man.

Its astonishing HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE THERE! the view goes on for MILES!

And the logistics of all the ushers and National guard and such. Americans sure know how to put on and organise a spectacle.

Any bets on whether Barack had a special warm (and EXTRA hard) vest on underneath the suit? One made of Kevlar?

Cheers

Chris