Think that picture you took with your fancy D-SLR camera is just gorgeous? Trust us, you ain’t see nothin’ yet.
The world’s biggest picture is a 70 gigapixel—that’s 70 billion pixels—360 degree panoramic image of Budapest. What do all those pixels allow? Imagine standing on top of the Empire State Building and looking around. Now imagine being able to see someone inside an apartment window…in Brooklyn.
The shot was created with a pair of Sony A900 cameras, fitted with 400mm lenses. The cameras were mounted to a rotating robot which pounded the shutter button for two days. The images were then processed over another two days. The end result is a 200 GB file.
If you’re planning on printing it out to hang on the wall, head to Staples first: the photo measures 15 meters long.
We’d upload the full image in this post but…well, it’d probably crash our entire website.
