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I have an electronic pan head that will take these types of images. You zoom your camera all the way in and set the upper right and lower left of your frame then it takes rows and columns of photos. The you digitally stitch the images together. It's probably not one snapshot. Even as easy as that sounds it's difficult to pull these off well. It's amazing the amount of detail in them. I've also never printed one so I'm unsure how that amazing detail translate over to medium sized prints.

Thanks for sharing!
 
Jay,
I'd like to know more about the electronic pan head you have.
Can you post a link to a website, please?
 
I saw on of these in a demo at our local camera club.
www.gigapansystems.com

You need some solid state memory to do this quickly; otherwise, stitching together the huge file can take forever.

The concept is the pan mount system allows you to take many pictures of a scene by incrementally panning the camera by a specified delta increment, creating a matrix of rows and columns of pictures of a scene. Each entry in the matrix is a single exposure at the specified resolution. You create monster files and get the incredible amount of detail. I have never seen on of the printed out - it would be interesting
 
ain't it just amazing what can be done if you can throw enough $$$$$$$$'s into the mix???????? just look at all the incredible (meant in ALL meanings of the word:vomit:) stuff our uncle does with ALL Y O U R money!!!!!!!!!!
 
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