Giganpan: Take 1,474-megapixel photos for under $400
Want to take your own 1,474-megapixel photos? Now you can with the Gigapan Epic. The device was recently used to create a huge picture of the inauguration, and now you can purchase one of your own and create mega-sized pictures at home.
The picture was created using the GigaPan. GigaPan works with most point-and-shoot cameras, and allows you to take hundreds (or even thousands) of pictures of a single area, and then tie them together to create one picture.
Using the device is pretty simple, you just have to indicate where the upper left and lower right hand corners of your picture are going to be, and then the Gigapan determines how many pictures your camera will have to take, uses the devices robotic arm to take them, and then the bundled software organizes those pictures into the correct rows and columns to create a seamless picture.
Surprisingly, the device only costs $379. It doesn’t include a camera, or the batteries you’ll need to operate it, but typically devices of this nature tend to be much more expensive just because of the novelty of what they are able to do. The $379 price tag puts the GigaPan well within the reach of many consumers and prosumer photographers. It will be interesting to see who decides to pick one of these up, and what they decide to take picture of with the device.
The inauguration worked particularly well for taking photos. The first things that come to mind personally are crowd scenes at concerts, mobs or groups of people protesting…anywhere where there are a lot of people doing lots of different thing would more than likely look amazing when taken with the GigaPan. The possibilities for amazing photos are truly endless.
Would you buy a GigaPan? What would you take pictures of?
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