Cologne - Imagine you buy a camera with 8 megapixels and shoot Cologne panorama. Proud of you look at the razor-sharp picture and think: Posters? Poster? Photo wallpaper? Anything goes! As you knock on someone's shoulder: "Look! My photo is still 1000 times larger ... "
Who will score the biggest photo of the world? The Cologne Photo Designer André M. Hünseler has now ended already ranked 5th His coup: The Cologne panorama in 8 Gigapixeln (ie 8000 megapixels): "One day I photographed with a commercially available Canon Eos 400 D piecemeal the whole panorama. Overall, I was here around 600 pictures. "
To view all photos of the then 15 kilometers wide and 10 kilometers deep panoramas together like a puzzle, counting his PC whopping 3.5 days.
"If the razor sharp photo prints on canvas, it must be at least 60 meters wide, its 14 meters high." In (still) good quality, so you could even hide a Rhine bridge.
Eye-catcher: Click here for a mega-> photo, because you can zoom in by clicking through Cologne.
A view of the distant Cathedral relief or to the roof terraces of the City? No problem!
Incidentally, world record holder is a panoramic photo of the magnificent Yosemite National Park United States with 17.3 gigapixels. Hünseler: "I now Peile at 25 gigapixels. I want to square 1 '
