Powerful cameras for big brother

[Mister L]

This picture was taken with a camera 70,000 x 30,000 pixels (2100 MegaPixels).
These cameras are not sold to the public and are being installed in strategic locations. ( This is in Canada somewhere).

It can identify a face in a multitude.
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!!
You will see the image amplify and discover with an incredible sharpness the faces.
There were thousands of persons and yet one can spot and recognize any face.

Imagine what means…both police and army have it, and it happens in any part of the world. 
After you click on link, page will open, then left click on "OPEN GIGA TAG"
http://www.gigapixel.com/image/gigapan-canucks-g7.html

 

[Guest 6.8 AR]

So, why don't we have better pictures of the terrorist who attacked the Benghazi compound. Nevermind,

cameras have to be pointed in a certain direction. :D

[Guest drv2fst]

Scary & cool.  The scariness wins out over cool though.

[Garufa]

Where's Waldo?

[BryanP]

Read the header. This isn't a 2000+megapixel camera taking single snapshots. 

 

 

BEFORE THE RIOT version 1 - The Vancouver Canucks Fan Zone along Georgia St. for Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final was captured at 5:46 pm on June 15, 2011. 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. The final hi-res file is 69,394 X 30,420 pixels or 2,110 megapixels. Special thanks to Bonita Howard and CBC Real Estate.

[GlockSpock]

They've been doing stuff like this for concerts for a while now. However, I don't think that that is necessarily one photo taken by a single camera. I think they probably have a camera that essentially is on a rotating fixture, and it automatically takes lots of photos and stitches them together. For example, look at the bottom right, all the way, and then look up a hair at the sidewalk. There are several headless legs walking around.

[GlockSpock]

Also, if you look at the bottom right again, look for the guy in shorts and the white pullover with stripes (it has "CCM" on it).  He is in the "photo" three times, as is the guy with "Boston 44" written on this shirt.

[monkeylizard]

There's something similar but far scarier in the works at the DOD called ARGUS. Instead of one camera that moves on a gimbal to point in a specific direction like UAV cameras do now (looking at one thing at a time), it has an array of digital camera sensors. Since each sensor collected its own image, an operator could "zoom in" on one or more specific spot(s) without losing the overall picture. Currently when a UAV camera zooms in, that's all the operator can see. This would allow operators to watch a very large area, but zoom in on a house, or multiple houses while keeping the big picture in place.

 

Each image from each sensor is stitched together in software to provide the large overall pic and be able to zoom as needed. It also added object tracking capabilities to lock on to a person or vehicle and follow it.

 

Same concept as in the OP, but real-time, and having both big picture and zoom (and multi-zoom at that). It would be like being able to zoom in on that crowd and see the face (or multiple faces) while still seeing the full cityscape in another monitor, and all from one camera sensor array.

 

Here's a write-up from the UK's Daily Mail.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2269563/The-U-S-militarys-real-time-Google-Street-View-Airborne-spy-camera-track-entire-city-1-800MP.html

Edited May 13, 2013 by monkeylizard

[Guest StorminMormon]

that huge crowd, and I couldn't find a single flasher...canucks..... :)

[NoBanStan]

Read the header. This isn't a 2000+megapixel camera taking single snapshots. 

 

 

BEFORE THE RIOT version 1 - The Vancouver Canucks Fan Zone along Georgia St. for Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final was captured at 5:46 pm on June 15, 2011. 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. The final hi-res file is 69,394 X 30,420 pixels or 2,110 megapixels. Special thanks to Bonita Howard and CBC Real Estate.

 

Yup, here's a capture from that photo. I used this because A.) the guy at the top left has half a face and B.) because I found Ali-G

 

[NoBanStan]

Here's some more.

 

http://gigapixelphotography.com/vancouver-yaletown-condos/

 

If you look around enough you'll find a rather attractive gal in her skivvy's :D

 

There's a gallery at the top right after the hop