British Telecom Posts 320 Gigapixel Photo of London
Can you see your house from here?
UK telecoms provider British Telecom has just published the biggest ever photo of London. The photo was taken just after London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympic Games by photography firm 360Cities, which specializes in panoramic photos. It's made up of 48,640 individual frames which were collated into a single panorama using a supercomputer. The end product is a 320 gigapixel image.
The pictures were taken using Canon EOS 7D cameras with EF 400mm f/2.8 IS II USM lenses and Extender EF 2x III teleconverters driven by special Rodeon VR Head ST robotic panorama heads from the German-based Clauss. According to British Telecom, if the completed image were printed at normal photographic resolution, it would be almost as tall and as wide as Buckingham Palace.
Lucky for us, that's not the case, and BT has made the photo available for viewing online. Head over to BTLondon2012.co.uk/Panorama to check it out for yourself.

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Speaking of cars, for a city of 10 million I don't see terribly many. It kind of resembles North Korea.
(and it'll stare back at you)
This image file must be about 10 TBs in size.
Also, is it ever sunny in London?
1) Public transport
2) Olympics, people were encouraged to not take their car because of the traffic (make london look better etc).
3) People will be working, they wouldn't be out and about.
4) More residential area, people at work -> not at home, few cars.
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Nobody will be in a window, because as a general rule if it is light outside and dark inside all you will get is reflection from the glass
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No, it is never sunny in London, it has been dark, overcast and raining, usually with a pea-soup-thick fog at night everyday since the 1800's - don't you watch movies?
I can't find Waldo, either. I'm gonna lose sleep over this!!!
(and it'll stare back at you)
This image file must be about 10 TBs in size.
Also, is it ever sunny in London?
Are you serious? A 320 GP photo would 'only' be around 100GB in size. Nowhere near even 1 TB.
This photo should be viewed on a 4K 84" TV. Anything less would not be doing it justice.
Okay, 10TB may be 10x too large, but 100GB is about 10x too small. Uncompressed images are quite large in case you didn't notice. This 9 GP image is about 25 GB:
http://www.howtogeek.com/127363/9-gigapixel-photo-captures-84-million-stars/
Scale that up to 320 GP and you have an image that is "nowhere near" 100GB, and is actually quite close to 1 TB.
Next time you decide to call someone out for pulling numbers out of his @ss, make sure you're not doing the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzby
Since they are at the BT Tower
Wow, where do YOU live that is so much better ?
Big city is big city... lots of concrete and asphalt and very little nature and green.
The abyss is actually there in real life, folks there call it the hell gate.