14 DAY TRIAL // If you're a fan of incredibly detailed panoramic photos you've no doubt heard of 360 Cities a site dedicated to the phenomenon. The site's creator is one of the experts in this narrow and nascent field of digital photography and he has struck again with a gorgeous panoramic photo of the Strahov library in Prague, the largest indoor photo of this kind.
As always, the details are amazing. But this time, instead of peeking at distant buildings, you'll be zooming in, reading book titles that start out at tens of feet away and checking out the beautiful fresco on the ceiling.
"Ever since finishing the London Gigapixel, we’ve been planning, shooting, and stitching the next world record!," 360 Cities writes.
"This one is a bit smaller – 40 gigapixels – but it is still a record – it is, as far as we have been able to see, the largest interior photo ever made," it added.
The entire photo is 280,000 x 140,000 pixels, which translates into roughly 40 gigapixels and 283 GB of HDD space. Of course, it's not one giant photo, it's been pieced together from thousands of photos to create the huge panorama.
2947 individual shots, taken over the course of five days, were necessary for the level of detail this panorama boasts. A Canon 550D was used along with a 200mm lens.
You can head on over to 360 Cities to check out the gigapixel panorama in action, or watch the video below to get a preview of what to expect.
The world's largest panorama is still the London 80 Gigapixel shot from last year. But, while the London photo is bigger, it was less complicated than the indoor one.
It only took three days to get the London photos needed and the post processing was simpler too since there were less variations in the lighting in various parts of the photo.