The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. Itconsists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which wasrecorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes.
The converting of 102 GB rawdata by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB and 16 processorstook 94 hours. With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world.
(stand December2009)