Largest Pictures In The World!

10 05 2010

On a cold day in September 2009, from the roof of the building “Haus der Presse”, office of the newspaper publishing company – Sächsische Zeitung in Germany, the World record for the ‘Largest Picture in the World’ was made. With a resolution of 2,97,500 x 87,500 pixels (26 Gigapixel), the picture was made with a Canon 5D Mark-II Camera with a 400mm-lens. The picture consists of 1,665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel resolution. This 102 GB of raw data was recorded by a photo-robot directly to a notebook computer in about 172 minutes.

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