anybody go to the inaugeration?

[SteveP]

check out this photo. zoom in. you can zoom in on any face anywhere in the crowd.
most remarkable.

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullsc...648c2b4b06233c

[GrantM]

very cool!

[DarrenCT]

wow that is cool


1st person to find the guy in the "ccb cycling cap" wins a prize

[Lurch]

Gotta love the expression captured on the outgoing President Bush. Irony, or fitting accident?

[mikew]

Clarence Thomas is asleep.

There are no words for Aretha's hat.

There's some sort of wild animal on G.H.W. Bush's head.

Cool.

[wgp]

Boy is that technology scary on some level! I've played with Google Earth before, and imagined that their site uses technology that is light years behind what our gov't satellites can do now.

Same for this thing here - it's both amazing and a bit awe-inspiring around it's potential "uses" (good and bad).

[Slapshot]

It looks like GW is texting someone...

DW

[SteveP]

this is the explanation that came with the link. shoulda posted it. its a story in itself

This you must check out! With these cameras the secret service has a record of everyone who attended.

2009 Inauguration Photo - SUPER HI-DEF This is absolutely the BEST in 'high definition'..... Really amazing.



Zoom in ('double-click' an area) ....and watch it focus. Then zoom some more... and wait for focus.

What a surveillance tool this is. !



This picture was taken with a robotic camera and weighs in at 1,474 megapixel. (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera) It was a Canon that pulled together over 200 individual shots.

[davids]

And this is the public technology...