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David Bergman’s Gigapan Inauguration Photo

Posted by: Allen Murabayashi Posted date: January 26, 2009 | No comment

Sports-Illustrated contributor, Bare Naked Ladies Tour Photographer and PhotoShelter user, David Bergman was down in DC for the inauguration and set up a gigapan unit. From what I can tell, this $279 unit has some sort of robotics that allows it to carefully take a series of images which can then be stitched into one huge panoramic.

In other words, this:

becomes this:

And yes, that looks like Justice Clarence Thomas taking a little snooze while the President takes an oath.

Dave took 220 photos on a Canon G10 and stitched them together on his Macbook. See the whole thing.

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Allen Murabayashi
Allen is CEO and co-founder of PhotoShelter. He is a regular contributor to the PhotoShelter blog, and he flosses daily.

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