According to PhotographyBlog, a group of young Hungarians, sponsored by industry big-shots Epson, Microsoft and Sony, have created the world's highest-resolution 360-degree panoramic photograph to date. Firmly exceeded the previous attempt with 45 Gigapixels image of Dubai taken using Canon 7D DSLR camera in May this year.

Sony A900 DSLR camera bodies+Minolta AF 400mm f/4.5 APO G lens and 1.4x teleconverter


The source images were then stitched with Autopano Giga software on a Dell Precision T7500 Workstation with 2 quad-core Intel Xeon processors, 24 gigabytes of RAM and 6 terabytes of storage capacity.



Original Source:
http://www.70-billion-pixels-budapest.com/index_en.html

Previous World's Largest Picture of 45 GigaPixels taken in Dubai by Canon 7D DSLR + 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L lens at 400mm
http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/48492/

This post has been edited by kennyohngu: Jul 28 2010, 05:02 PM