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World’s largest photograph

21 Nov

This is a tiny part of the world’s largest photograph. It contains 80 Giga pixels and is made up of 7,886 individual high definition photographs stitched together to form one humongous 360 degree panorama of London.

It is so detailed that you can zoom in and see people’s faces taken from over a mile away. Created by 360 Cities. If it was printed out in real size it would be 100 feet long and 50 feet wide. Amazing.

World’s largest photograph (London)

They also run ‘treasure hunts’ competitions to find stuff within the image.

 
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Posted in Digital images, Entertainment, Interesting ICT News

 

Sony reveals plans for a 16m pixel camera phone

08 Oct

Sony have proclaimed the world’s first 16 Megapixel camera sensor to be launched in a product in 2011. This will allow a mobile phone to shoot 1080p HD video for the first time.

Technology just keeps on marching on it seems. However is there a point at which adding more features gives you less and less advantage. Do we need HD video on a mobile phone? Will the memory now have to increase to cope with the larger file size?  Will file transfers be that much slower? Internet uploads are still slow, so will this make it even slower to upload video to online sites such as YouTube?

An useful article to discuss the relevance of new technology in gadgets that may be already ‘good enough’.

Mind you, I will probably be in the queue to get one!

 
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Posted in Digital images, Mobile phones, New technology