Paris in 26Giga Pixels this is using 2346 single photos and stitching them together.
Paris 26 Gigapixels was shot with very unique hardware: 2 Canon 5D Mark II (21.1 MP) each with a 300 mm f4.0 with a tele converter in order to get a 600mm /f8.0 needed to beat the record, mounted on a custom-made panoramic head.
You can view paris in 26 Giga pixels here and Read more about the project here
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Dubai in 45 Giga Pixels they used 4,250 individual shots taken with a Canon 7D and the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L zoom at 400mm.
4,250 individual shots taken with a Canon 7D and the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L zoom at 400mm. Total shooting time circa 3 hours 30 minutes, in 37C heat (that's the temperature in the shade - the camera and lens were almost too hot to touch at the end of this).
Gigapan EPIC Pro.
Autopano Giga software.
Gigapan uploader.
PC - i7-920, 12GB RAM, 2x 300GB Velociraptors (not RAID). On attempting to stitch this the first time, I was told I needed just over a terabyte of scratch space, so I had to go out and by a 2TB disk and install that as well!
Dubai in 45 Giga Pixels here
[Via cnet The Digital Home]