The first digital camera to be commercialized in 1990 (the Dycam Model 1) took photographs at a resolution that today would equal 0.077 megapixels, or 7.7 percent of 1 megapixel. Something that sounds ridiculous in our days, considering that there are smartphones that today come with cameras with more than 20 megapixels.
However, the resolution capacity of the images no longer depends exclusively on the camera that takes them, but also on the processes that are used to work the images, which in time has had to coined the term gigapixel to designate The unit equivalent to 1000 megapixels.
Well, the image you'll see now is 353 gigapixels. That is, if it had been taken with a conventional camera, it would be one of 353,000 megapixels. To realize the level of detail an image of such resolution can achieve, simply "navigate" with the cursor to the sides and above, and zoom with the click of the mouse.
How it was made?
The image belongs to Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe, and to make it happen, Italian photographer Filippo Blengini and a team of five people climbed up to 3500 meters of the mountain that reaches up to 4810 meters high.
There, with temperatures of minus 14 degrees, they used Cannon equipment and a special robot for panoramic shots for two days to make about 70,000 high resolution photographs, which demanded 46 terabytes of storage. Then, the post production took 2 months to fit (with digital processing) each in its place.
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