You haven’t seen Prague like this before: a panorama with incredible resolution
“The weather was the hardest. Three times we postponed the photo shoot due to the wind, which shook the scaffolding we were standing on too much. And even then, I was there for three days, mostly in the repair of inclement weather, “recalled photographer Jeffrey Martin at the Fujitsu Day 2018 conference in May.
At that time, he could show us an unfinished version, and the Kolor Autopano Giga software arranged thousands of metadata photos about the order and position during the shooting, but Martin fine-tuned the detailed follow-up and fine-tuning of individual neighboring images manually, so it was a job for several months. This is despite the fact that he had a Fujitsu Celsius workstation with 128 GB of RAM, extremely fast SSD storage and a professional graphics card.
It was not possible to use any professional 360 ° camera when taking a panoramic photo, because the resulting image did not have the necessary resolution. The panorama was created from thousands of images taken by a Canon 5D Sr SLR camera with a 600mm f / 4 telephoto lens, on an automated computer with a controlled Seitz VR Drive rotary head. She always turned the camera by a precisely defined angle, pressed the shutter button and turned it further. Thus, line by line, sixty times around, he photographed a giant panorama, with a total resolution of 500 gigapixels.
Just to give you an idea, if you have a camera with a resolution of 20 MPix, the image you take has a resolution of 25,000 times lower than the giant image of Prague.
The picture is unique not only in size, but also in the place from which it was taken, or a very unusual view of the city. The creators used the repairs of the Old Town Hall, during which the entire tower was under scaffolding. The camera on the tripod was still a few meters above the tip of its roof. The photo thus captures the hundred-towered city from a completely new perspective.
Maker Faire Prague 2018what: the first Czech festival of creators and do-it-yourselfers where: Prague Exhibition Grounds in Holešovice when: Saturday 23.6. until Sunday 24.6. 2018 from 10 am to 6 pm |
As part of the Maker Faire Prague 2018 festival, you will be able to view a circular panoramic photograph measuring 3 x 50 meters. It was printed from an image with 300,000 pixels wide (one third of the full resolution of the resulting photo), which represents a print quality of 150 DPI.
Visitors to the festival can also look forward to presenting their digital design on a state-of-the-art virtual reality headset from VRgineers. “The combination of a 5K virtual reality headset and a workstation adds enough power to process such a huge amount of data, bringing visitors a top experience,” adds Filip Snášel from Fujitsu.