Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Super Zoom Lens!

Check out the hotties in the third window down.

It's a 2.5 gigapixel image! Some interesting facts...
* Final image dimensions: 78.797 x 31.565 pixels
* Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
* Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
* Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
* Number of source images: 600
* Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)
* Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)
* Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125
* Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
* Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes
* Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours
* Time required to optimise project: 4 hours
* Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end pcs
* Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalise image: 2 days
via Jokerz Linkdump


More photography shenanigans, this time from the guy who was involved in the recent free running programme for Channel 4.


mmChronic covered the channel four documentary in this post New Links: Urban Freeflow, so here's a bit of follow up...

Here's a gallery of featured photographs, the home of free running in the uk and another entry for another technorati tag. ;)


Also, just a heads up for you, FAHRENHEIT 9/11 is on Channel 4, Thursday 27 January 2005, @ 9:00pm


It's a network premiere and it's being shown in widescreen too.

1 comment:

mmChronic said...

So when is the first outing for the NewLinks Synchronised Parkour Team? I've got the bottle of KiaOra ready so anytime will do for me...