This doesn't require a special camera. You use a normal or telephoto lens and take hundreds of photos then stitch them together with software.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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Any software you recommend? Did this a while back off some great views, but the software side didn’t seem to work well. Microsoft had one, but if k recall, it relied on some technology that wasn’t updated.
I just couldn’t get it to work right.
I've used that software you're talking about, and it's very basic.
I use PTGui, personally. I bought version 9 years ago, and haven't tried any of the new versions. v9 wasn't necessarily designed to make gigapixel panoramas, and newer versions might be better at it. I use v9 to make 360 panos from a small number of fisheye images, so it's a very different use case than gigapixel panos. Overall, though, the software is fantastic!
Looks like they have specific features for it now: https://ptgui.com/examples/creating_gigapixel_panoramas_with_a_robotic_panohead.html
Yes, that is a more accurate explanation of how they get such a large image.
Not entirely sure what going on here,but imagine you think you're safe from pictures because you're 30 stories up, then someone takes a 20 gigapixel image.
I’m not seeing anything remarkable in that image.
The middle window, it almost looks like a woman on top of a man.
But maybe it's a couch