Most of the photographs that people take are taken with smartphones with a resolution of 12 megapixels. When they are zoomed in, they break up into small squares, but what happens if the photo is 195,000 megapixels? If we are talking about a photograph of a city, then the approximation allows you to make out every person who walks along its streets. You can verify this by looking at a 195-gigapixel photo of Shanghai from BigPixel.
A panoramic photo of Shanghai taken from the height of the 230-meter Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Of course, BigPixel doesn't have such a super camera capable of capturing a photo of this size in one go. The panorama was stitched together from thousands of individual images taken with professional cameras, the names of which the company does not disclose. The gluing process took two months.
The panorama is posted on the BigPixel official website and is available to everyone. It is worth agreeing that the quality and detail of the image is amazing. To control the camera, you can use both the buttons on the keyboard and the mouse. To zoom in, you need to click on the zoom button or scroll the mouse wheel.
It is noteworthy that this is not the largest photograph in the world. The record belongs to the panorama of the city of Kuala Lumpur, made by researchers from Malaysia in 2015. It consists of 31,000 individual photos and is also available for viewing by anyone.
For nature lovers, there is a 365 gigapixel photo of the French Mont Blanc. The panorama was created by five people using a Canon 70D camera with Canon EF 400mm f / 2.8 IS II and Canon Extender 2X III lenses. You can view the photo on a special website.
Ramis Ganiev