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11.28.09

A Picture Worth a Thousand Pictures

GigaPan takes hundreds of pictures, for a zoom-in-able panorama shot, or a killer game of Where's Waldo

By Amanda Schupak Posted 03.20.2009 at 9:11 am 8 Comments

Image courtesy GigaPan and the Chicago Office of Tourism

Try this: See that bright blue sign on the far wall? Can you read it? Double-click it. Can you read it now? Now move in again. And again.

This impressive panorama is actually a collection of 592 distinct photos, shot with a Canon Powershot with a 360mm zoom, and the help of a nifty gadget called the GigaPan Epic. Plop your camera into the device and it will automatically take between 20 and several hundred slightly overlapping pictures of a scene. The GigaPan software stitches them together for you into one massive, ultra-detailed, thousands-of-megapixels collage.

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