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The largest seamless photograph made in a single exposure was made using a Southern California jet hangar transformed into a giant camera. The most recent claim to the largest image stitched together was by the
Canadian Museum of Civilization The Canadian Museum of History (french: Musée canadien de l’histoire) is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of C ...
. On 3 August 2015, the ''longest'' photographic negative was measured wide. This negative was created b
Esteban Pastorino Díaz
(Spain) by driving on the
2nd Ring Road (Beijing) The 2nd Ring Road () is the innermost ring road highway which encircles the city center of Beijing, People's Republic of China. (The first ring road had been a circular tram route.) The ring road can be divided into two parts: the original ring ...
. Esteban Pastorino Díaz also holds the previous record, a negative measured wide. He used a custom-built panoramic slit camera on 13 June 2010. The negative is a panorama of major streets in Buenos Aires, Argentina, captured by the slit camera while mounted on the roof of a moving car.


Largest seamless example

*Name of project/picture: '' The Great Picture'' *Claimed by: The Legacy Project; (Jerry Burchfield,
Mark Chamberlain Mark Valentine Chamberlain (born 19 November 1961) is an English former international footballer. He is the younger brother of Neville Chamberlain, and the father of Liverpool and England international player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Alde ...
, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada) *Photograph of: control tower and runways at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Orange County, California *Dimensions: high × wide (9.75h × 33.83w meters). Aspect ratio is 3.47:1. On July 12, 2006, six photographers (Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada) unveiled what is currently the world's largest camera and photograph. The photograph was made to mark the end of 165 years of film/chemistry-based photography and the start of the age of digital photography. It was taken using a decommissioned Marine Corps jet hangar (Building #115 at El Toro) transformed into the world's largest camera to make the world's largest picture. The hangar-turned-camera recorded a panoramic image of what was on the other side of the door using the centuries-old principle of "
camera obscura A camera obscura (; ) is a darkened room with a aperture, small hole or lens at one side through which an image is 3D projection, projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole. ''Camera obscura'' can also refer to analogous constructions su ...
" or
pinhole camera A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture (the so-called ''pinhole'')—effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects an inverted image o ...
. An image of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station appeared upside down and flipped left to right on film after being projected through the tiny hole in the hangar's metal door. The "film" is a by piece of white fabric covered in 20 gallons (75.71 liters) of light-sensitive emulsion as the "negative". After exposing the fabric for 35 minutes the image was developed by 80 volunteers using a giant custom-made tray of vinyl pool liner. Development employed 600 gallons (2271 liters) of black-and-white developer solution and 1,200 gallons (4542 liters) of fixer pumped into the tray by ten high volume pumps. Print washing used fire hoses connected to two fire hydrants.


Largest example assembled from multiple pieces

*Name of project/picture: Unknown (Grand Hall diorama background) *Claimed by:
Canadian Museum of History The Canadian Museum of History (french: Musée canadien de l’histoire) is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of C ...
*Photograph of: Canadian Aboriginal forest *Dimensions: 112 m (367 ft) (W) × 15 m (49 ft) (H) *Photographers: Rob d'Estrube assisted by Dirk Heydemann of Destrube Photography of Victoria, B.C., Canada The scene was originally produced on 6x6 cm transparency film shot with a Hasselblad 80mm lens in many overlapping sections. 80 rolls of film were used over several sites with this scene being finally chosen. The site is the estuary of Nasparti Bay at the base of the Brooks Peninsula on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Shot in 1987 or 1988 to be ready for the opening of the museum in 1989. The installation is actually two scrims of identical size, one behind the other in mirror image to give the viewers a 3-dimensional experience while walking beside the diorama. Within the
Canadian Museum of History The Canadian Museum of History (french: Musée canadien de l’histoire) is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of C ...
, one wall of the massive Grand Hall is composed of a
scrim Scrim can refer to: * Scrim (material), either of two types of material (a lightweight, translucent fabric or a coarse, heavy material) * Scrim (lighting), a device used in lighting for films * Scrim (internet slang), friendly match between tea ...
covered by a photo of a forest. The photo is about .


Digital photograph

The following are the
digital photograph Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The digitized image is s ...
s that have held the record for being the largest in terms of pixel count, beginning with the largest in chronological order (note: large digital images out of chronological order or lacking milestone significance are moved to acknowledgment section). Most instantes are
digital image mosaic A digital image is an image composed of picture elements, also known as ''pixels'', each with ''finite'', '' discrete quantities'' of numeric representation for its intensity or gray level that is an output from its two-dimensional functions f ...
s obtained via
image stitching Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most app ...
for
interactive visualization Visualization or visualisation (see spelling differences) is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and c ...
(
VR photo VR photography (after virtual-reality photography) is the interactive viewing of panoramic photographs, generally encompassing a 360-degree circle or a spherical view. The results is known as VR photograph (or VR photo), 360-degree photo, photo ...
s).


Kuala Lumpur 846 gigapixels (2014)

*Photograph of: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia *Year: photographed in 2014; published 2015 *Achieved by: Tan Sri Dato' Sri Paduka Dr Lim Kok Wing and Limkokwing University of Creative Technology International *Photographed by: Mehdi Zarrabi Esfahani & The Team at Centre for Content Creation Sdn Bhd *Pixels: 846,071,539,488 *The final image was the result of combining over 31,000 individual images in a panorama. http://www.panaxity.com


Moon surface 681 gigapixels (2010-2013)

*Photograph of:
Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
's Northern polar region *Taken from the
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions t ...
Camera *Year: taken over four years, from 2010 through 2013, published 2014 *composed from 10,581 imagesFull size zoomable image


Prague from Old Town Square, 405 gigapixels (November 2018)

*Photograph of:
Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
*Claimed by: Jeffrey Martin *Total images: 8 000 *Year: photographed in 2018; published in November 2018 http://360gigapixels.com/prague_gigapixel_panorama_900K_2018/


Calblanque, La Manga, Mar menor, and golf club 402 gigapixels (October 2015)

*Photograph of: Murcia Coast *Claimed by: Carlos Caravaca Escavy (hawlok) *taken from 336m Cabezo de la Fuente *Dimensions: 1,335,000px × 300,913px *Year: photographed in 2015; published in December 2015 http://www.panoram.es/


Mont-Blanc 365 gigapixels (June 2015)

*Photograph of:
Mont Blanc Mont Blanc (french: Mont Blanc ; it, Monte Bianco , both meaning "white mountain") is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, rising above sea level. It is the second-most prominent mountain in Europe, after Mount Elbrus, and i ...
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Chamonix, France Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ( frp, Chamôni), more commonly known as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924. In 2019, it had ...
*Claimed by: Filippo Blengini, Alessandra Bacchilega, Guido Bethaz, Matteo La Torre, Roland Clauss *taken from 3500m up in the Vallee Blanche *Year: photographed in 2014; published in June 2015 *composed from 70,000 images *captured over 35 hours with one Canon EOS 70D camera mounted on a CLAUSS RODEON piXpert panoramic head
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London 320 gigapixels (February 2013)

*Photograph of:
London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
*Claimed by: Jeffrey Martin, Tom Mills, Holger Schulze *Taken from the BT Tower *Year: photographed in 2012; published in February 2013 *Composed from 48,640 images *Captured over three days with four Canon EOS 7D cameras mounted on CLAUSS RODEON VR Head ST motorized mounts Full size zoomable image


Electron Micrograph of a Zebrafish Embryo 281 Gigapixels (August 2012)

*Name of project/picture: ''Zebrafish Embryo 281 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Frank G.A. Faas, et al. *Photograph of:
Zebrafish The zebrafish (''Danio rerio'') is a freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family ( Cyprinidae) of the order Cypriniformes. Native to South Asia, it is a popular aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio (and thus often ...
embryo An embryo is an initial stage of development of a multicellular organism. In organisms that reproduce sexually, embryonic development is the part of the life cycle that begins just after fertilization of the female egg cell by the male spe ...
*Total images: 26,434 *Dimensions: 921,600px (W) × 380,928px (H). Each pixel represents 1.6 nm *Pixels: 351,063,244,800 *Year: public availability: August 6, 2012
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Shanghai 272 Gigapixels (December 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Shanghai Skyline - Stitched From 12,000 Pictures'' *Claimed by: Alfred Zhao *Photograph of:
Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
*Pixels: 272,312,102,608 *Estimated optical pixels: 112 Gigapixels *Dimensions: 887276 (w) × 306908 (h) *Total images: 12000 (150 columns and 80 rows) *Size: 1,089,248,410,452 bytes (1.09 TB) *Year: shooting: May 25, 2010 / public availability: December 17, 2010
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Arcachon 228 Gigapixels (October 2015)

*Name of project/picture: ''Arcachon 228 Gigapixels Party / 333 Easter Eggs'' *Claimed by: Ourco *Photograph of: Bassin d'Arcachon - FRANCE *Pixels: 228,511,957,990 *Total images: 14700 in 6 hours (294 columns and 50 rows) *Camera 20 Mpx 1200mm (eq 24×36) *Year: shooting: June 4, 2015 / public availability: October 16, 2015
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Sevilla 111 Gigapixels (December 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Sevilla - 111 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Jose Manuel Domínguez Pablo Pompa *Photograph of:
Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
*Pixels: 111,173,273,248 *Total images: 9750 *Year: shooting: September 29, 2010 / public availability: December 12, 2010
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Hamburg 100 Gigapixels (August 2015)

*Name of project/picture: ''Hamburg von oben - 100 Gigapixels'' *Photograph of:
Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...
*Claimed by: Holger Schulze *Pixels: 100,000,000,000 *Year: shooting: 2015 / public availability: August 28, 2015
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Sugar Loaf 92 Gigapixels (September 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Sugar Loaf - 0.15 Terapix'' *Claimed by: RioHK group *Photograph of:
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
*Pixels: 152,407,683,304 *Year: shooting: July 20, 2010 / public availability: September 28, 2010
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New York City from Empire State Building 80 Gigapixels (April 2021)

*Photograph of: New York City, United States *Year: photographed in 2021; published in April 2021 *Photographed by: EarthCam *Camera: GigapixelCam X80 *Pixels: 80,000,000,00
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London 80 Gigapixels (November 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''London 80 gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Jeffrey Martin *Photograph of:
London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, United Kingdom *Pixels: 80,000,000,000 *Year: shooting: June–August 2010 / public availability: November 16, 2010


Arches 77 Gigapixels (September 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Arches National Park - 77 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Rongkai Zhao *Photograph of:
Arches National Park Arches National Park is a national park in eastern Utah, United States. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, north of Moab, Utah. More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches are located in the park, including the well-known Delicate Arch, a ...
- Park Avenue Trail Head *Pixels: 77,966,309,790 *Year: shooting: September 6, 2010 / public availability: September 18, 2010
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Budapest 70 Gigapixels (2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''70 Billion Pixels Budapest'' *Claimed by: 360systems Ltd. *Photograph of:
Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
*Pixels: 71,303,841,000 *Year: shooting: 2010
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)


Corcovado 67 Gigapixels (July 2010)

(Not a cropped image: the sides of the picture are not straight. The real picture is smaller with the black parts on the edge.) *Name of project/picture: ''Corcovado 67 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: RioHK group *Photograph of:
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
*Pixels: 67,821,473,740 *Year: shooting: July 8, 2010 / public availability: July 22, 2010
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Vienna 50 Gigapixels (July 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Vienna 50 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Photoartkalmar *Photograph of:
Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...
*Dimensions: 404864px (W) × 124832px (H) *Pixels: 50,539,982,848 *Year: shooting: July 2010 / public availability: July 2010
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Marburg 47 Gigapixels (July 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Marburg 47 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Peter Lauritis Photography *Photograph of:
Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...
, Germany *Pixels: 47,676,298,005 *Year: shooting: July 2010 / public availability: July 20, 2010
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Dubai 45 Gigapixels (May 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Dubai 45 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Gerald Donovan *Photograph of:
Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
*Dimensions: 472603px (W) × 94955px (H) *Pixels: 44,876,017,865 *Year: shooting: April 23, 2010 / public availability: May 2, 2010
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Prague 34 Gigapixels (May 2013)

*Name of project/picture: ''Prague 34 Gigapixel Panorama Photo'' *Claimed by: Jeffrey Martin *Photograph of:
Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
,
Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
*Dimensions: 260000px (W) × 130000px (H) *Pixels: 33,800,000,000 *Year: shooting: May, 2013 / public availability: May, 2013
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Swiss Alps 31 Gigapixels (April 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Swiss Alps 31 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Simon Oberli *Photograph of:
Swiss Alps The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps (german: Schweizer Alpen, french: Alpes suisses, it, Alpi svizzere, rm, Alps svizras), represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss ...
*Dimensions: 385163px (W) × 80500px (H) *Pixels: 31,005,621,500 *Year: shooting: March 13, 2010 / public availability: April 25, 2010
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Paris 26 Gigapixels (March 2010)

*Name of project/picture: ''Paris 26 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Kolor Autopano / Arnaud Frich / Martin Loyer *Photograph of:
Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
, France and
Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
, France *Dimensions: 354159px (W) × 75570px (H) *Pixels: 26,763,795,630 *Year: shooting: September 2009 / public availability: March 2010
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Paris 26 Gigapixels is an interactive image showing a view of the French capital and its famous monuments, from the Eiffel Tower to the Pantheon. It was shot from the
Church of Saint-Sulpice , image = Paris Saint-Sulpice Fassade 4-5 A.jpg , image_size = , pushpin map = Paris , pushpin label position = , coordinates = , location = Place Saint-Sulpice6th arrondis ...
by photographer Arnaud Frich using a CLAUSS RODEON VR Head HD panoramic head and 2 Canon 5D Mark II DSLR cameras with 300mm f4.0 lenses and two 2x tele converter (equivalent 600mm f8.0). The 2346 images of the project were then assembled using Kolor Autopano Giga software. The website was created using several technologies: Kolor Autopano Tour, KRpano and Microsoft Research's HDview."Making of"
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. Paris 26 Gigapixels. March 11, 2010. Retrieved February 5, 2013.


Gigapixel Dresden 26 gigapixels (2009)

*Name of project/picture: ''Gigapixel Dresden'' *Claimed by: A.F.B. media GmbH / ''Sächsische Zeitung'' (local newspaper) *Photograph from: ''Haus der Presse'',
Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
, Germany *Dimensions: 297,500px (W) × 87,500px (H) *Size: 102 GB (raw data) *Pixels: 26,031,250,000 *Year: 2009
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Prague 18 Gigapixels Spherical Panorama (December 2009)

*Name of project/picture: ''Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo'' *Claimed by: Jeffrey Martin *Photograph of:
Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
,
Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
*Dimensions: 192,000px (W) × 96,000px (H) *Size: 120GB (
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file) *Pixels: 18,432,000,000 *Year: shooting: October 2009 / public availability: December 2009 This image, when published in December 2009, was the largest fully spherical panoramic photo in the world. It is 192,000 pixels wide and 96,000 pixels tall. When printed, it is 16 meters (53 feet) long at regular photographic quality (300dpi). It was shot in early October 2009 from the top of the Zizkov TV Tower in Prague, Czech Republic in collaboration with Prague 3 town hall. Canon 5D MKII digital SLR camera and a 200mm lens were used. Hundreds of shots were shot over a few hours; these shots were then stitched together on a computer over the following few weeks.


Largest season image in the world - Ilmenau (Germany) 18 Gigapixel (2009)

*Name of project/picture: ''Largest season photo in the world'' *Claimed by: Daniel Richter *Photograph of:
Ilmenau Ilmenau () is a town in Thuringia, central Germany. It is the largest town within the Ilm district with a population of 38,600, while the district capital is Arnstadt. Ilmenau is located approximately south of Erfurt and north of Nuremberg w ...
, Germany *Dimensions: 142,736px (W) × 125,546px (H) *Pixels: 17,919,933,856 *Year: shooting: 2009
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Yosemite-17-Gigapixels/Glacier Point (2008)

*Name of project/picture: ''Yosemite-17-Gigapixels/Glacier Point'' *Claimed by: Gerard Maynard, New York, NY, USA *Photograph from:
Glacier Point Glacier Point is a viewpoint above Yosemite Valley in the U.S. state of California. It is located on the south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of , above Curry Village. The point offers a superb view of several of Yosemite National Park ...
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Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ar ...
, California, US *Dimensions: 214,414px (W) × 80,571px (H) *Size: 96.5 GB *Pixels: 17,275,550,394 *Year: 2008
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Udaipur 16 Gigapixel Image (2014)

*Name of project/picture: ''Udaipur 16 Gigapixel'' *Photographed by: Pranshu Dubey (PixelDo.Com), India *Photograph from:
Karni Mata Temple Karni Mata Temple of Deshnoke (Hindi: करणी माता मंदिर), also known as Madh Deshnoke, is a prominent Hindu temple dedicated to Karni Mata at the town of Deshnoke, located 30 km south of Bikaner, in Rajasthan. It h ...
, Udaipur, India *Dimensions: 455,215px (W) × 36,894px (H) *Size: 62.5 GB *Pixels: 16,794,702,210 *Year: 2014
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This is the first gigapixel image of any Indian city and this is the first and largest digital interactive image in India. This image is a panorama of 1456 individual shots stitched together. Shot with Canon 550D and Canon 400mm 5.6 lens and robotic panoramic head. Anyone can access the website and experience an interactive tour of Udaipur.


''The Last Supper'' (2007)

*Name of project/picture: ''The Last Supper'' *Claimed by: HAL9000 Srl - Novara - Italy *Photograph of: ''The Last Supper'', as painted by
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...
, in the back halls of the dining hall at Santa Maria delle Grazie in
Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, Italy. *Dimensions: 172,181 px (W) × 93,611px (H) *Size: 94.4 GB *Pixels: 16,118,035,591 *Year: 2007 The 16.1 Gigapixel size was reached by HAL9000 Srl. The project "The Last Supper" was claimed to be the largest digital panoramic photo. It is a stitched photograph created merging 1677 shots from a single point into one photograph, each shot 12.2 Megapixel in size. Captured with a Nikon D2s Camera on a customized CLAUSS RODEON VR Head panoramic head.
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Harlem 13 Gigapixels (2007)

*Name of project/picture: ''Harlem 13 Gigapixels'' *Claimed by: Gerard Maynard *Photograph of:
Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street (Manhattan), 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th Street (Manhattan), ...
, New York *Dimensions: 279,689 px (W) × 46,901px (H) *Size: 48.8 GB *Pixels: 13,117,693,789 *Year: 2007 The 13 Gigapixel size was reached by Gerard Maynard. The 2045 images were taken with a Nikon D2X with 300 mm lens mounted on a modified Peace River Studios PixOrb. The stitching and exporting was done automatically by Autopano Pro.
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Parete Gaudenziana (2006)

*Name of project/picture: ''Parete Gaudenziana'' *Claimed by: HAL9000 Srl - Novara - Italy *Photograph of: ''Parete Gaudenziana'' in ''Santa Maria delle Grazie Church in Varallo (Italy)'' *Dimensions: 96,679 px (W) × 89,000px (H) *Size: 51.6 GB *Pixels: 8,604,431,000 *Year: 2006 The 8.6 Gigapixel size was reached by HAL9000 Srl. The project Parete Gaudenziana was claimed to be the largest digital panoramic photo. It is a stitched photograph created by merging 1145 shots from a single point into one photograph, each shot 12.2 Megapixel big.


Llandudno, North Wales, United Kingdom (2019)

*Name of project/picture: ''
Llandudno Llandudno (, ) is a seaside resort, town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. In the 2011 UK census, the community – which includes Gogarth, Penrhyn Bay, Craigsi ...
,
North Wales , area_land_km2 = 6,172 , postal_code_type = Postcode , postal_code = LL, CH, SY , image_map1 = Wales North Wales locator map.svg , map_caption1 = Six principal areas of Wales common ...
'' *Claimed by: Peter Miko *Photograph from:
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*Dimensions: 219,973px (W) × 35,847px (H) *Size: 61.9 GB *Pixels: 7,741,984,131 *Focal length: 560mm *Year: 2019 The 7.74 Gigapixel size was reached by Peter Miko. The 798 images were taken with a Canon EOS-1D X Mark II and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens + Canon Extender EF 1.4x III.
Full size zoomable image


Gigapix (2004)

*Name of project/picture: ''Gigapix'' *Claimed by: TNO *Photograph of:
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*Dimensions: 78,797 px (W) × 31,565px (H) *Size: 7.5GB *Pixels: 2,487,227,305 *Year: 2004 The previous record belonged to
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO; en, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) is an independent research organisation in the Netherlands that focuses on applied science. The organisat ...
. One of these attempts was by Dutch company TNO. The project dubbed "Gigapix" was claimed to be the largest digital panoramic
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, although it is a stitched photograph by merging hundreds of small sections into one photograph. The photograph is 78,797 by 31,565 pixels large. It was taken on a
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D1X
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. A preview of the image can be seen at:
TNO Gigapix project description
Gigapixel: Zug, Switzerland Ralph Wellin
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Size 3,9 Gigapixel September, 2017


Unknown title (2003)

*Name of project/picture: Unknown *Claimed by: Max Lyons, Gigapixel Images *Photograph of:
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, United States *Dimensions: 40,784px (W) × 26,800px (H) *Size: 2.06GB *Pixels: 1,093,011,200 *Year: 2003 The previous record belonged to Max Lyons of Gigapixel Images. He had at one stage claimed to have created the largest photo. It consisted of 196 images that were stitched together. Since then this claim has been surpassed by that of the TNO attempt. TNO's Gigapix is 2.5 times larger.


Portrait of a Coral Reef (1999)

*Name of project/picture: ''Portrait of a Coral Reef'' *Claimed by: Jim Hellemn *Photograph of: Bloody Bay Wall Coral Reef in
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*Dimensions: 76,934px (W) × 23,010px (H) *Size: 4.95GB *Pixels: 1,770,251,340 *Year: 1999 The previous record may have belonged to Jim Hellemn of Blue Ocean Art. In 1999, Hellemn created a 1.77 gigapixel underwater photocomposite image, which was designed to facilitate life-size reproduction of a 20 ft high by 70 ft wide section of Bloody Bay Wall, a vertical coral reef wall in the Cayman Islands. The image consisted of over 300 images that were manually stitched together from 4000ppi drum scans of Fuji Provia 100 transparency film. To make the image, a grid of 280 frames was photographed with 30% overlap to accurately cover the reef wall with full-spectrum light revealing the natural color and detail of the reef. Additional frames of marine life carefully photographed in the same grid composited in place to complete the scene. The on-site photography, requiring 23 dives and over 12 hours underwater to complete, was accomplished over a ten-day period by Jim Hellemn, with assistants Larry Hellemn and Peter Neubauer, using a neutrally-buoyant camera platform Hellemn designed specifically for the project. The post production of the image was completed in six months using multiple Macintosh G4 computers at Photographix in Poway, California, a digital graphics company owned by Hellemn. A zoomable version of the image was made available to the public in 2000 using the ER Mapper's
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and Image Web Server software on a site operated by Fugro-Pelagos, allowing visitors to explore the life-size image. The project and the techniques used by Hellemn inspired researchers at
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to use similar methods to produce wide-coverage video mosaics to study coral reefs. The image was published in the October 2001 issue of ''
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'', "Portrait of a Coral Reef".


Large print of conventional sized photograph

For the
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, a print of a photograph of the British Royal Family during her Silver Jubilee was erected in front of the
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in London while the building was under renovation.


See also

* ''
Earth Platinum ''Earth Platinum'', published by Millennium House in 2012, is the world's largest atlas at . It surpasses the famous ''Klencke Atlas'' at the British Library, which held the record of the world's largest atlas since 1660. The atlas ''Earth Platinu ...
'', 2012 atlas


References


External links


Official websites

* - official site * - official site * – official site * – official site *{{official website, www.Roumestan-photo.com, Roumestan-photo.com – official site


Gigapixel photo mosaics


Giga Lacrimosa
- 80 gigapixel mosaic of a Bulgarian lawyer, entrepreneur, media mogul and politician -
Delyan Peevski Delyan Slavchev Peevski ( bg, Делян Славчев Пеевски ) (born 27 July 1980) is a Bulgarian politician, oligarch, entrepreneur and media mogul. He served as MP from the parliamentary group of the DPS in the 41st, 42nd, 43rd an ...

Queen Elizabeth
- 33 gigapixel mosaic


Further reading


"The Sharpest Image"
(''Popular Science'') - Story on the Gigapxl project Lists of photographs
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