Megapixel images of Chester, UK

Welcome to the big megapixel* image Zoomify page. On here you will see various pictures taken around the town of Chester - in the UK. Click on a link below to open the viewer in a new window.

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* Although these are megapixel images, they are nearly the size of what are known as "Gigapixel images", and some of the highest resolution images of Chester in the UK currently avaidable on the internet. High resolution leads to much clearer prints at large paper sizes...

	Inside Chester Cathedral 29136 x 17754 .5 Gigapixels
	Town Hall at dusk 8193 x 6083 47.5 mega pixels
	Cathedral at dusk 11292 x 6426 69.2 mega pixels
	Flyover 12867 x 1423 18.3 mega pixels
	Chester Bridge 12867 x 1423 18.3 mega pixels
	canal 3462 x 3627 12.6 mega pixels
	Outside the Cathedral 35325 x 15197 536.8 mega pixels
	Inside the Cathedral 7720 x 3793 29.3 mega pixel
	Cathedral Organ [LOW RES] 3093 x 7941 24.6 mega pixel
	Cathedral Organ [HIGH RES] 10010 x 19384 185 mega pixel
	Projector PCB 24763 x 6366 150.3 mega pixels
	Our Desk 11110 x 2250 23.84 mega pixel

Here's a bit of background on the 185 megapixel organ image...

At 300 DPI it could be printed it at a size of 33.4 inches by 66.11 inches. =)
Which just happens to fit nicely on a room door - as can be seen below...

Size Comparison

It took :

* 30 minutes to take the 62, 8 Megabyte RAW images, using a Canon EOS 20D, with a 28-135mm lens on full zoom, at ISO 400.
* 5 hours to stitch the 2.976 Gigabytes of image data.
* 5 minutes to load the 3 gigabyte image into Photoshop
* 25 minutes to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, and boost shadows, mostly spent processing changes.
* 15 minutes to save the file in PNG, BMP, JPG and PSB.
* 10 minutes to create a Zoomify image.
* 5 minutes to add it to this website

Total : 6 and a half hours.