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A Beautiful 2GB Panoramic Photo of Obama’s Inauguration Speech
Cult of Mac — ... Inaguration in Washington Tuesday, and he used his access wisely. With a Gigapan Imager and his Canon G10, Bergman shot 220 images and took more than six and a half hours using Gigapan software to put them all together on his Macbook Pro. The completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes. You can view the image in minute detail using flash controls at Bergman’s website, in full-screen mode here (I found this the best viewing on my machine), and at the Gigapan site. Bergman has only just started exploring the photograph himself, but says he ...

The Inauguration's Money Shots--All 220 Of Them!
Gearlog — Before the inauguration I wrote about CNN and Microsoft's plan for a Photosynth shot of "The Moment." Boring. Sorry guys I was expecting a lot more and I'd be dishonest if I didn't say I was disappointed. If I had it to do over I'd tell you instead to be on the lookout for David Bergman's panorama. His is the money shot! Covering 194.19 degrees of width, 80.09 degrees height this composite is nearly 1.5 gigapixels--59,783 X 24,658 pixels! No one camera or lens couldprovide that kind of resolution so Bergman relied on 220 separate shots. "I made a panoramic ...