Thursday, February 12, 2009

U.S. Presidents



The resolution and the technology of still photography has improved dramatically in the 150 years since the Abraham Lincoln inauguration on March 4, 1861.

A similar picture was taken digitally at the Obama inauguration in 2009 by David Bergman.

Using a GigaPan developed by Carnegie Melon University in partnership with the NASA robotics lab and Google, it has a resolution of 1,474 Megapixels. Think about that number for just a moment… Your little digital camera probably has a resolution of about 5 or 10 Megapixels.

To see this incredible photo by David Bergman in all of its glory go to this URL: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=15374
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