Growing Up in Life - Manish A. Desai's Blog

My humble attempt and musing to grow up and hopefully be a better human being during this life time. I plan to share some of the books, writings, poems that have helped me grow up so far. Of course the journey continues till the last day. I would love to hear from the readers which books, writings, poems, anything else which have influenced them in their lives. ~~ I get lots of nice "forwarded" emails. The blog also serves as collecting pot of these selected stories & writings.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

First 26 Giga Pixel Picture..

This is "A must watch wonder"! Use the navigation tools to advantage, make it full screen and also look at the opitons on the right side.This is fabulous !!

Paris-World's first 26 Giga Pixel Picture.

http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html

The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes. The converting of 102 GB raw data by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB and 16 processors took 94 hours. With a resolution of 297,500 x 87,500 pixels (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world.