This doesn't require a special camera. You use a normal or telephoto lens and take hundreds of photos then stitch them together with software.
Yes, that is a more accurate explanation of how they get such a large image.
Any software you recommend? Did this a while back off some great views, but the software side didn’t seem to work well. Microsoft had one, but if k recall, it relied on some technology that wasn’t updated.
I just couldn’t get it to work right.
I've used that software you're talking about, and it's very basic.
I use PTGui, personally. I bought version 9 years ago, and haven't tried any of the new versions. v9 wasn't necessarily designed to make gigapixel panoramas, and newer versions might be better at it. I use v9 to make 360 panos from a small number of fisheye images, so it's a very different use case than gigapixel panos. Overall, though, the software is fantastic!
Looks like they have specific features for it now: https://ptgui.com/examples/creating_gigapixel_panoramas_with_a_robotic_panohead.html
Sick! Reminds me of the sharpest ever view of the Andromeda galaxy. That image really shows the insane amount of stars just one galaxy contains.
Not entirely sure what going on here,but imagine you think you're safe from pictures because you're 30 stories up, then someone takes a 20 gigapixel image.
I’m not seeing anything remarkable in that image.
The middle window, it almost looks like a woman on top of a man.
But maybe it's a couch
interestingasfuck