17 Gigapixel Picture!!!

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02-06-2011, 03:28 PM

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Dayum.
17 meg = 17,000,000
17 gig =17,000,000,000

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02-06-2011, 03:30 PM

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Dayum.
17 meg = 17,000,000
17 gig =17,000,000,000

Exactly.

I bet it would crash my computer. LOL

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02-06-2011, 03:53 PM

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I don't think they realize the true difference in giga and mega. GIGA is far greater than mega.

yeah... imagine a standard 2 megapixel image at 1600 * 1200 resolution
now look at the size of this one: 214,414 * 80,571

and it ain't even close to the largest
i believe the record one (for digital images) is a picture of Shanghai @ 272 gigapixels!
that's just messed up!!