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Originally Posted by Zholl
Hey! There's my team right up in the front of the picture!
I seem to have been really tired when you took this...
Could you share what kind of camera and lens you used? The images are really high res and very nice quality on the zooms, so I'm a bit curious as to what you were using, since my camera hits 480 with the crop factor on my telephoto lens and I could still only barely see the people on the other end of the arena.
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The camera was an inexpensive superzoom by Panasonic
LUMIX FZ18 ~$250
8 M pixel
set to 18x optical zoom which is 35mm equivalent of 504 mm.
The key is that I took 270 of the 8 M pixel pictures in a 9 row by 30 column array and used the Gigapan stitcher to merge them all.
You loose ~50% pixels in each image because of 30% overlap in each axis.
The merge of the 270 images took 3 hrs on vista 64bit quad cpu (Q8300) WITH 8G 1366 MHz DDR3 memory. The process was set at elevated priority. All 4 cores were buzzing. Have had some of these take 6+ hours to merge.