Very large picture of London. Very, VERY large

[Fairportfan]

Record-breaking 320-gigapixel photo shows London in incredible detail

Here are a few stats relating to the shoot:

• 320 – the number of gigapixels in the final image

• 48,640 – the number of individual images shot

• 3 – the number of days it took to shoot all the individual photos

• 3 – the number of months over which the computer processed the final result

• 60,000 – times bigger than an iPhone 4 photo

• 98 – the number of meters long if printed in normal photographic resolution

• 24 – the number of meters high if printed in normal photographic resolution

• 20 – number of miles distant to the viewable horizon

Head here to explore the extraordinary image, which takes you right up close to every part of the capital – you can even make out individuals inside capsules on the London Eye.

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(Google Earth tells me that the distance from the BT Tower to the London Eye is 1.5 miles.)

Screenshots:

View at 100%:



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Same view zoomed back to roughly 50%:



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[Julie]

Shot over three days? That's bound to create a smidge of discrepancy when you zoom in a few places.

[Fairportfan]

Shot over three days? That's bound to create a smidge of discrepancy when you zoom in a few places.

Not if they chose their sectors for each day carefully.

And since there were over 48,000 raw pictures, it would be possible for the computer to choose joining points that would allow it to minimise such problems