# The Largest Image in the World!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-largest-image-in-the-world/302303>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [December 26, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-largest-image-in-the-world/302303 "2009-12-26T09:19:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jasninder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jasninder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jasninder)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-largest-image-in-the-world/302303/1 "2009-12-26T09:19:43Z")

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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)

[http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP](http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP)