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Just what the world needs: another blog from another self-important design guru. Brand66 is a design discussion presented by — me, Michael Rylander. Over the years, I've been lucky enough to work on some the world's great brands, like Apple, Sony, BMW, Fortune, and American Express.

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World's largest digital photograph

For at least the next 48 hours, the city of Budapest can lay claim to producing the world's largest digital image. So let us praise the pixels. All 70 billion of them. To accomplish this monumental task, the team used two 25-megapixel Sony A900 cameras fitted with 400mm Minolta lenses, and a robotic camera mount that got the shooting done over the course of two days. The result is a 200GB file.

Like Google Maps on steroids, you can zoom using the magnification controls or by simply clicking on any of the user-defined "snapshots." I guess this it would be like to have 20/20,000 vision. Yes, I made that last number up. (If there are any mathematicians out there, I'm curious what the calculation would be.)

Reader Comments (1)

this would have been something interesting with which to interact.

major fail on the despicable silverlight load request however.

thanks, but nuh-uh.

August 1, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMichael

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