Cars

Climb Inside A Concorde With These 360-Degree Panoramas

Ever wondered what it was like to fly in a Concorde? Every wondered what it was like to fly a Concorde? Then dive into these pannable, zoomable panoramas of the aircraft (as well as some less peaceful supersonic birds).


September 3, 2010
Cameras

Canon’s 50MP Omnidirectional Camera Looks Everywhere At Once

Panoramic photography can be tricky. What’s better? Canon’s camera that shoots a single 360-degree image. The tech uses a giant, 50MP CMOS sensor and aspheric mirror to capture a sharp, sweeping photo, exceeding the human eye’s measly 200-degree view.


August 1, 2010
Cameras

The Other End Of The 70-Gigapixel Budapest Photo

You’ve seen the 70-gigapixel picture of Budapest. Here’s a picture of the gear that took the shot. That’s two Sony A900s with massive 400mm Minolta lenses attached. Combined, these guys took 20,000 images to create the world’s largest photo. [Wired]


July 30, 2010
Cameras

The World’s Largest Digital Photograph: Budapest In 70 Gigapixels

If you thought that 45-gigapixel panorama of Dubai was something, you ain’t seen nothing yet. This 70-gigapixel shot of Budapest is so massive, you can zoom right into the windows of those apartments on the horizon.


July 28, 2010
Online

Street Slide Takes You For A Street View Stroll

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Street View’s great for catching a superhero pub crawl freeze frame. But what if you could follow them down the road? Microsoft’s Street Slide lets you do that very thing.


June 9, 2010
Cameras

Lomography’s Spinner Camera Shoots 360 Panoramic Photos On Film

Pull the trigger-cord, and away the panoramic photos snap, with the camera spinning on its axis. It’s one of the coolest (and cheapest) ways to shoot 360-degree photos, and as it’s from Lomography the saturated colours and effects are guaranteed.


May 3, 2010

World’s Largest Panorama Shows Dubai Down To Girl In Bikini

At 45 gigapixels, this panorama is the largest in the world. With that detail, it’s a Peeping Tom wet dream. It also shows why Dubai seems to have materialised from another dimension. The “We’re All F*cking Crazy Here” dimension.


March 16, 2010
Cameras

GigaPan Epic Pro Gives Your DSLR Full Panoramic Power

We’ve been waiting on a DSLR version of the GigaPan Epic gigapixel photo system for a while now, and the moment’s finally arrived: the GigaPan Epic Pro handles DSLRs and large lenses to stitch together photos into sweeping panoramas.


November 3, 2009
Science

Feel Insignificant With A 648MP Image Of Our Galaxy

Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 42,000km and pieced together over 3000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled.


April 14, 2009
Cameras

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.