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more about #panorama Yanguang: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignora... more » Benjamin Posch: well, not that my opinion matters or anything, but i clicked for the full size view. it didn't seem very big, and i don't really feel that insignifica... more » psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!: The thing I'm particulary worried about, doesn't every galaxy has a black hole in it's center? A massive one? If so, the gravitational force of it mus... more » Crashproof: "Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy" Except for Chuck Norris. #galaxy more » Muzzled: 648 mega pixel image, amazing, Thats something I would like to see. <3 mega pixel image uploaded to gizmodo? no thanks #galaxy more » Robert-Freeman: This doesn't make me feel insignificant, it makes me feel more significant. :) #galaxy more » Nick: universal pictures is gonna send him a cease and cut-it-out letter. #galaxy more » cobaltage: There's no way this is going to beat the iPhone. Thank you, I'm here all week. #galaxy more » nutbastard: this means that the image itself is somewhere around 2.16GB or so. i could have screwed up a decimal place. 2nd opinion? #galaxy more » TableZero: What? No "You Are Here" arrow? #galaxy more » jayhawk11 owns property now!!!: Does this guy have any plans to release the image to the public? Could be pretty neat as a desktop picture. #galaxy more » wkm001: How can a galaxy contain "as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae"? Is this a map of the universe? #galaxy more » pexy: I want for my house #galaxy more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: 'Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy' I've known a few women who can induce the same effect... #galaxy more » berbar: I wonder what stitching software they used. more » Curves: I had seen pictures of the redwoods all my life, but when I saw one in person, I was awestruck by the reality of just how huge they are. I had never i... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: OK, unless you are hunting, running around the woods with camo on is uncool. I mean, if you fall and get knocked unconscious, how do people find you? more » OMG! Ponies!: I am intrigued. With the manual mode on the G10, I can indeed manually set and lock down the ISO, aperture, f-stops, and focus. And, with 14.7 megapi... more » Anarian: Isn't it almost impossible to take images perfectly since people do move in a scene, or birds might fly by? more » Hello Mister Walrus: 1. Remove Camera 2. Replace with laser gun 3. ??? 4. Win more » -
#space
Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 26,000 miles and pieced together over 3,000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled. More » -
#nature
Custom Camera Rig Allows For a Stunning Vertical Panorama of a Giant Redwood
Wildlife photographer Michael Nichols wanted to photograph a 300-foot-tall redwood in a dense forest with no clear lines of sight. So he built a custom camera rig to take tons of close-ups to stitch together. More » -
#digitalcameras
GigaPan Epic 100 Arm Wrestles Small DSLRs to Create Gargantuan Gigapixel Panoramas
GigaPan has put their famed Epic gigapixel photo system on steroids, so the Epic 100 manhandles pro point-and-shoots and small DSLRs to create even more massive gigapixel photos from a bunch of stitched together shots. More » -
#atlasshrugging
360-Degree New York Stock Exchange Panorama Shows Where The Action, Sadness Happens
Computers have reduced tons of the bustle on the NYSE floor, but it's still a pretty charged place. Here you can duck the telescoping trading terminals as you swoop around a full 360-degree flash panorama courtesy of the NYTimes. Can you feel the pain? [NYTimes - Thanks, Dan!] -
#olympics
What's It Like To Stand On the Water Cube's High-Dive Platform?
Full-screen this beautiful high-res panorama cooked up by the New York Times's top-notch interactive graphics folks and find out. [NY Times via Kottke] -
