What is a gigapan?

Photos are measured in pixels, these are the little squares of color that make up a digital photo. A megapixel is one million pixels.

A really good phone camera might have twenty million pixels in the photo and that is referred to as a 20 megapixel image.

Professional cameras that you find in a studio create images from 25 megapixels to 100 megapixels or one hundred million pixels in top of the line cameras costing tens of thousands of dollars.

A gigapixel image is an ultra high resolution image that contains 1,000 megapixels or one thousand million pixels.

A gigapan photo is a super high resolution panoramic photo, that provides amazing levels of detail not possible with regular cameras.

A sample gigpan we shot is linked below. This image it 29,427 pixels by 11,551 pixels, for comparison a 4k resolution monitor is 3840 pixels by 2160 pixels.

Be sure and zoom all the way in so that you can experience the amazing detail captured in a gigpan photo.

Example of a Gigapan Image

id8 design has the equipment and capability to produce gigapan photos for your business, association, government or organization.

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