Can you imagine the quality of a1,500 megapixel image? Stop imagining it and see for yourself withGigapan Epic Imager, a device developed a few years ago by NASA to portray Mars that has just been put on sale to allow any photographer to obtain incredible panoramic views.
Gigapan it is compatible with a wide variety of digital cameras on the market. Its structure, with a built-in mobile arm, is responsible for capturing more than 200 images of the same scene that, later, are overlapped by software. In this way, a panoramic photograph is obtained, it can be enlarged almost indefinitely so as not to lose a detail. The technology has been adapted from the high resolution cameraPancam who traveled to the red planet aboard the robotic exploration vehiclesSpiritYOpportunity.
Although relatively new, Gigapan has already been used to createphotographs of areas affected by natural disastersand better assess the damage, to studyareas of archaeological interest, or to analyze from the botanical and geological point of view large areas of aecosystem.
If you want to see all the possibilities of this technology, you can take a tour of the official Gigapan website, where users share images like this one from Obama’s inaugural speech, which has already gone around the world, a broad panorama of the Swiss summits or this view of Boston.
