Showing off your 18-Megapixel camera? Pfff! Make way please! Here’s a 70 Billion Pixel for you! Teaming up is Epson, Microsoft, and Sony, and their result is the stunning panoramic photo over 590,000 pixel wide and 121,000 pixel tall. Cannot comprehend how big or small is that? We’ll use typical printing standard of 300DPI. How big would that be if you actually print it? 156m wide by 31m high. Er… Longer than your bloody football field. Haha!

Using 2 units of Sony A900 bodies (duh!) with Minolta 400mm f4.5 APO G lenses with a 1.4x teleconverter mounted on a sturdy stand and custom-designed robotic head, a bunch of Hungarians manage to create the world’s highest-resolution 360 degree panoramic photo to date. The stunning photo was taken at the highest point in Budapest, Hungary.
The setup at the summit took 3 hours, but the photo processing took 2 full days to complete! Woot! The machine used to process the photo is a Dell T750 with 2 quad-core Xeon processors, 24GB of memory, and 6TB of HDD. And the result? A whooping 200GB of photo!

In all seriousness, Epson could not possibly have printed the whole humongous photo. I though they’ll do it for the lulz, but they didn’t. Too bad. It’ll be extremely epic if they do. However, they scaled it down to a 15m wide print from a downsized, 1.5-gigapixel copy, which is sitting snuggly at the Erzsébut lookout station in Budapest.

See the epic bajillion pixel image for yourself here!

Source: Photography blog