Think you can hide in a crowd?

[bmc]

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This picture was taken with a camera 70,000 x 30,000 pixels (2100 MegaPixels).

The cameras are not sold to the public and are being installed in strategic locations. (This one is in Canada). There are even more powerful cameras but they are classified.

Place the cursor in the multitude of people and left double click a couple times. It will continue to show the people much closer, when you double left click again
or click more if needed. Amazing!!

There were thousands of persons and yet one can spot and recognize any face.

Imagine what this means... both police and the government have it.

This kind of technology, all the CCTV cameras everywhere, emails, Facebook being tracked, makes me wonder what the new definition of freedom is.

 

[Spaldo]

Freedom? Most of the freedom we have these days is subject to stalking and subversiveness on so many levels. I'm not paranoid, but I often wonder if what I write on talkbass is being used against me in some way?

 

[paste]

WoW! A huge juxtaposition compared to the current cctv's around which look like there filming with a potatoe!

 

[UncleFluffy]

Interesting. Looks to have either been tampered with or was build up as multiple segments over a period of time. There's a couple of places where people overlap and the focus shifts very abruptly.

edit: I should have read the label: "It is made up of 216 photos (12 across by 18 down) stitched together, taken over a 15-minute span, and is not supposed to represent a single moment in time." so no, it wasn't taken with one super-camera, just a bunch of regular ones stitched together.

 

[paste]

Ugh... is this an actual crowd or cut-outs of people? If you zoom in close enough they start looking like cut-out people like on the Beatles album cover lol

 

[john turner]

if you look at the lower right corner you can see the same guy with a baseball cap 3 times. sorta cool for what it is. (the picture, that is).

 

[Tarrbot]

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This picture was taken with a camera 70,000 x 30,000 pixels (2100 MegaPixels).

The cameras are not sold to the public and are being installed in strategic locations. (This one is in Canada). There are even more powerful cameras but they are classified.

Place the cursor in the multitude of people and left double click a couple times. It will continue to show the people much closer, when you double left click again
or click more if needed. Amazing!!

There were thousands of persons and yet one can spot and recognize any face.

Imagine what this means... both police and the government have it.

This kind of technology, all the CCTV cameras everywhere, emails, Facebook being tracked, makes me wonder what the new definition of freedom is.

The gigapixel project originally started with a guy that took the camera out of an old U-2 spy plane (could have been an SR-71, my memory is slipping on this).

 

[Relic]

The gigapixel project originally started with a guy that took the camera out of an old U-2 spy plane (could have been an SR-71, my memory is slipping on this).

Both/either actually.
I was just going to mention this. My two older sons are in the Civil Air Patrol and had the opportunity to talk to a U2 pilot last year at one of their meetings. This guy was flying many years ago and mentioned that the cameras back then would blow your mind and they were analog.

I cant imagine what they must have by now.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

To dismantle what is in the link. The numbers work out to be a camera that takes somewhere in the region of 3855 x 2535 pictures (it'll be a bit different, that doesn't work out to a standard ratio and there'll have been some loss in the stitching process). But either way, it'll have been a camera which is ~10 mega pixel, probably with a fairly standard zoom lens.

216 pictures in 15 minutes is just over 14 frames per minute, most DSLRs have a 5-10 frame per second shoot rate (the timelimiting thing is going to be positioning and focus, which wouldnt need to change in a picture like that).

Basically, if you were to go to a good camera store, you'd be able to buy a camera, lens and a motorised tripod and get a setup which can take pictures like that, probably better, (the tripod would probably be a special order, but they are out there for consumers).

I seem to remember a release announcement of a mobile phone with a ~40 mega pixel camera sensor last year (it will have probably been not very good).

I've also seen very expensive massive sensors in very high end cameras.

Heck, my low-mid range D-SLR has an 18 MP sensor.

If you're in the public domain your picture can be taken, be it by the government of a member of the public with a camera.

 

[1958Bassman]

The gigapixel project originally started with a guy that took the camera out of an old U-2 spy plane (could have been an SR-71, my memory is slipping on this).

Those cameras used film.

 

[scorpionldr]

Invalid Link Removed

This picture was taken with a camera 70,000 x 30,000 pixels (2100 MegaPixels).

The cameras are not sold to the public and are being installed in strategic locations. (This one is in Canada). There are even more powerful cameras but they are classified.

Place the cursor in the multitude of people and left double click a couple times. It will continue to show the people much closer, when you double left click again
or click more if needed. Amazing!!

There were thousands of persons and yet one can spot and recognize any face.

Imagine what this means... both police and the government have it.

This kind of technology, all the CCTV cameras everywhere, emails, Facebook being tracked, makes me wonder what the new definition of freedom is.

Freedom? Freedom to live in poverty. That's as much freedom slung into my life as I can recognize.

 

[lwknives]

Where's Waldo?

 

[Clef_de_fa]

Freedom is in your mind because it doesn't exist at all ... You don't have the choice but work, goes to work, you can't do whatever you want ... we have a police and rules to live in a society...

the only choice you have is what you will study, your hobbies and where you will work.

 

[SoComSurfing]

if you look at the lower right corner you can see the same guy with a baseball cap 3 times. sorta cool for what it is. (the picture, that is).

They walk among us.

This reminds me of the Glacierworks project that captures mexapixel images of the Himalayan glaciers and the trek to Everest.

 

[chuck norriss]

They look bored. Those people need to get back to work.

 

[Ziltoid]

Midgets are the new ninjas.

 

[4dog]

I might be an idiot and missing something,Mohawk , are you saying they got people to stand still for 15 min..while taking a shot of a them, did this a bunch of times with various groups, and then spliced it all together?

 

[duff beer]

There were thousands of persons and yet one can spot and recognize any face.

Imagine what this means... both police and the government have it.

This kind of technology, all the CCTV cameras everywhere, emails, Facebook being tracked, makes me wonder what the new definition of freedom is.

I don't understand the reasoning of those who gather in a public place who feel that their "freedom" is somehow being violated when their picture is taken. They are called public places for a reason...avoid them if you're paranoid and can't grasp that no one really cares about you anyway...

Regarding Facebook...if you don't want people to know what you're up to, DON'T post it on Facebook.

 

[corndog]

You can play "where's the hoodlum" for hours with this pic.

I like the guy dressed up like a robot, complete with a tinfoil wrapped box and dryer vent arms.

See if you can find him

 

[TOOL460002]

I remember seeing something like this on a documentary about drones. It was basically a bunch of tiny cameras that worked together. Still very cool.