# 13.4 gigapixel camera

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**Created:** [September 4, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194 "2007-09-04T07:27:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![dyingwish](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dyingwish/32/6041_2.png) [@dyingwish](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dyingwish)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/1 "2007-09-04T07:27:40Z")

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Clear images on your 10 MP camera? This camera is the equivalent of 134 MP!! It is capable of crystal clear images zoomable to 20 miles! Check out the link. I can’t even imagine what kind of memory it would require to store/manipulate an image that size.

[http://www.harlem-13-gigapixels.com/](http://www.harlem-13-gigapixels.com/)

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**Author:** ![S10Blazed\_Si](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/s10blazed_si/32/5983_2.png) [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/2 "2007-09-04T08:07:06Z")

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t 13.4 gigapixels 13400 megapixels? Not 134.

Either way, it seems extreme by today’s standards - but 10 mp was extreme 5 years ago. Technology has ceased to amaze me.

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**Author:** ![dyingwish](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dyingwish/32/6041_2.png) [@dyingwish](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dyingwish)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/3 "2007-09-04T08:13:52Z")

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yep, forgot some zero’s

13400 MP Image

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**Author:** ![fattyvr6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@fattyvr6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fattyvr6)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/4 "2007-09-04T08:28:53Z")

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the only reason i could think of for needing this is to make extremely high resolution porn.

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**Author:** ![Zack01GC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@Zack01GC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zack01GC)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/5 "2007-09-04T08:50:41Z")

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I can dig it. Like a damn telescope camera

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**Author:** ![starboy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/starboy/32/5985_2.png) [@starboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/starboy)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/6 "2007-09-04T08:58:14Z")

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wow, that is amazing

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**Author:** ![SoLow](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/solow/32/6001_2.png) [@SoLow](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SoLow)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/7 "2007-09-04T09:18:42Z")

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🆒

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**Author:** ![BlkP42E](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blkp42e/32/5938_2.png) [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/8 "2007-09-04T09:41:55Z")

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neat

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**Author:** ![The1SloR\_T](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/the1slor_t/32/5984_2.png) [@The1SloR\_T](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The1SloR_T)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/9 "2007-09-04T10:20:53Z")

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we should all pitch in and get starboy one.

then he’ll never have to leave his house for event coverage

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**Author:** ![4doors5gears](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/4doors5gears/32/6006_2.png) [@4doors5gears](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4doors5gears)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/10 "2007-09-04T10:31:41Z")

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With a name like Harlem, you can’t go wrong.

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**Author:** ![hayabusa03rx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/90ced4/32.png) [@hayabusa03rx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/hayabusa03rx)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-4-gigapixel-camera/192194/11 "2007-09-04T13:13:22Z")

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the picture is alot of small picture put into one. If you zoom all the way out you can see it in the sky how it looks like its choppy that’s actually a single frame. Anyone with time can produce this picture.

It was taken with a Nikon D2x. Each picture it takes is 12mp.

It says on the site "the rendering was done using a 64-bit Linux version of the software. We set up special hardware to do the redering: dual xeon quad-core with processor with 8GB memory and 2 high-speed 150 GB HDD. It took 46hrs to render this 13 gigapixel pano.
