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- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -4/+127junkmail you try too hard.
- lava, on 10/12/2007, -11/+79I'm ashamed. I know what Machu Picchu is, but for a sec I thought this story was about pokemon.
- steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -6/+73Thats it junkmail, BLOCKED.
And I suggest other digg users to do the same. - MrLunar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61So, Where's Waldo?
- codyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61I don't think he used his camera phone for this one...
- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+425
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Yeah it's down. - ripfire12901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40http://www.docbert.org.nyud.net:8080/MP/
- jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32If you have to explain a joke, you might as well not tell it.
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33i wonder if in 20-50 years camera phones will take pics like this.
- z00k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Seriously wtf is with this guy using my Name?
-Zook - progidy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21actually, it does:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,66498-0.html - pagemap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19That probably happened when he stitched all the photos together.
- Dumbledore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18You could probably do this with an ordinary camera using autostitch.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html - oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15the site says he used over 400 images
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -9/+23"I sure wish I had a camera like that!"
it's not a single picture.. he stitched together many photos [probably several hundred] to make one big one
a "camera like that" doesn't exist. - ronaldpoi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Better link:
http://www.docbert.org.nyud.net:8080/MP/
It's outstanding!... I'm proud to be peruvian =) - biddlebugs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Did anyone notice the guy w/the green hat and coat is missing some of his leg? Looks like it was faded out. Nice photo.
- iGravity, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15http://www.duggmirror.com/
edit: Looks like it doesn't work. - zeeky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It would be great if we could download the full picture so we could see it all at once because frankly the flash viewer is annoying.
- Crid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Thanks rip
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I wish they would release a torrent of just one of their pictures....
- greghunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7jmchez:
Or that it was hidden so the Spanish would never find it, and the locals at nearby knew of the jungle ruins. Or how Bingham took lots of anchient artifacts back to America never to be returned.
America - ***** Yeah! And yes I'll admit every country has it's problems. - sub67, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Hahaha..I'm glad it wasn't just me.
- bobba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You do realize that where you are born is just random and that you had nothing to do with the building of the city or its rediscovery (an American did that).
Peruvians *are* Americans - musters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61500 MegaPixel... title
means hosting server will be down before anyone can see it... hopefully the mirror got it - ragnorok999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5poor little docbert.org is holding up quite well given the circumstances :)
- greghunt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Checking the specs it's cool to see the guy actually walked the 42kms to get there.
I did this for New Years Day, it's definitely a walk of a lifetime. My backpack must of weighed around what his did maybe slightly more, with some of the altitudes involved this is no easy feat. I found getting to the end a litle anti-climatic somehow, I enjoyed the walk there far more. I remember how much everybody in my group hated all the lazy people who had got the train there, we felt like we'd earned the right to see this place after walking the original path of the Incas.
Good to see it wasn't misty either when he go there! - philo23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6more than likely.
- logicmethod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@bmw
Yes, the photo was created by stitching, but just to clarify, the tiles he's asking about have been automatically generated by Zoomify (http://www.zoomify.com/), the software that is allowing the progressive-download of the image as you zoom in; they are not the actual single-shots that the author initially photographed. (I don't work for Zoomify, and I'm not trying to spam, just setting the record straight.) - AuAndCs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And the rest of us can earn the view by paying somebody to take us on a train.
Unless it's free. Then we earned it by existing alongside modern technology. - bmwboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Those little pictures are the individually taken pictures. He then "stitched" all of the photos together to create a panorama.
- mattmueller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Can we get another mirror?
- dmach27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3would be cool to have a hi-res picture from the top of Huayna Picchu (the famous peak that's behind Machu Picchu), similar to this one i found: http://leler.com/samerica/panos/mp4.jpg
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Actually, you can create awesome enough images with just a few pictures:
http://external.pathdaemon.com/saguaropano/ - teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ leobaby
"I wish they would release a torrent of just one of their pictures...."
Final Image Size 13.5 GB!
That would be great for when people have Bluray/HD-DVD burners...Until then, that's humongous. - DrenT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The final image is 13gb...
- xxrazor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Pika pika!
- colonelpanic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As far as I know the closest camera you can get to that would probably be a hassablad and they in the 30-40 megapixel range i think.
- avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually a camera like that does exist.. kinda... the Kodak V610 does stitching in the camera... it's works ok..
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Even if such a high resolution camera did exist, there is no lens that could resolve that much detail. Lots of MP != high quality. Once you go beyond the resolving power of the lens, you just amplify the imperfections. Now he is using a pretty good lens, but he is using the entire resolving power of the lens for 380 of the 400 shots, and the other 20 he was using half the resolving power (according to the technical specs).
I have seen this technique before filming some city, but never on something like this that I would want to have a browse around for a while. Now will the rest of digg bugger off so I can have a browse around his site ;) - grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@blackcow
Two different issues. What you are quoting is Bill's opinion on what we would need, and I was laughing about that quote back in the 286 days. I don't see why oepapal is being modded down, because he is exactly right. We are not talking about what is desired here. And yes on the whole over time, everything will get smaller, faster, cheaper and more reliable.
Of course I want a gigapixel camera so I can blow up some tiny crop of some photo to some huge wall poster size with no loss of visible resolution, but the laws of physics say that the wavelength of light is too big for that sort of resolving power on a 24 or 35mm, MF or large format lens.
You would need more expensive glass than your house is worth, and its weight would be measured in tonnes. You are talking about NASA glass here. Some modern P&S cameras are already outresolving the cheap glass they are taken with. - happyyellowbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go now -- before you can't! It is more magical than you could ever imagine...
http://www.colleenlynn.com/portals/cuscojournals/ - RCFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He says on his website he is using a Canon 10D, So you can get one on ebay since its 2 models old. The lens on the other hand is a "L" series...so that is going to cost you a little more.
- spuckler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you zoom in close to the largest group of people, just below them in a little nook is some jackasses empty plastic bottle with a blue cap.
- Aeror, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love how you end upp seeing someones bottom if you zoom in to max in the center
- furntree, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3oops....just noticed there was another comment with the same link.....i apologize!
forget i even posted =) - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pichu does 1 damage to itself every time it does an electric attack, that's why I prefer Pikachu.
- jeznav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's tiled so its much easier to download. If it were a single jpg file, it would be around 100mb.
- greghunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bobba:
Thanks for reminding me of that. I remember when I offended some sudamericana chicitas once when I was talking about people from the US.
"But We're Americans too, South-Americans. They're North-Americans" - yeahbuddy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Kramer:
Ooooh, Machu Picchu! -
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