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Where’s Barack?

Thu February 05 2009, 12:30:00

Gigapan Barack picture

A whole 16 days have passed and we haven’t even mentioned the new president, or the snow!
Let’s hope that this is the beginning of something great for America, and indeed the rest of the world!
Whilst Red Fred have had a busy start to the year, we’re still looking to the year ahead with excitement.
On my web travels, I did find something interesting, if not a bit geeky!! 

As our clients know, we’re always harping on about image resolution. It’s imperative for great image reproduction on your litho or large format print.
It seems digital photography and image processing have taken the next giant leap. An American photographer called David Bergman took this amazing photo. Using a special robotic camera mount called Gigapan, he documented the historic occasion of the Inauguration with over 200 high resolution images which were automatically stitched together. Zoom in and look at the incredible detail!

The result is an amazing panoramic image which feels like the old Where’s Wally books!

Text link: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15374&window_height=682&window_width=1423