{"id":5563,"date":"2012-11-13T15:37:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T20:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2017-09-29T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T21:28:18","slug":"highest-resolution-photo-ever-taken-of-machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2012\/highest-resolution-photo-ever-taken-of-machu-picchu\/5563\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest resolution photo ever taken of Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2012\/podcast-wildlife-photography-in-perus-amazon\/4764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photographer Jeff Cremer<\/a> used a Canon 7D and a 400mm lens to take 1,920 individual pictures of Machu Picchu.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The photos took only 1 hour and 44 minutes to record, with the help of a small robotic camera and advanced computer software. The planning and preparation leading up to the photo shoot took months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigapixelperu.com\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5564\" title=\"Machu Picchu 16 Gigapixels - Click on Image to experience the photo on the Internet in its full depth and breadth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/machu_picchu_16_gigapixels.jpg\" alt=\"Machu Picchu 16 Gigapixels\" width=\"329\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/machu_picchu_16_gigapixels.jpg 699w, https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/machu_picchu_16_gigapixels-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a>The individual photos were later stitched together digitally with a MacPro Hexacore 2.67Ghz, 32GB Ram and OCZ 960GB RevoDrive.<\/p>\n<p>With a resolution of 297,500 x 87,500 pixel (15.9 gigapixels) the picture is the highest resolution photo of Machu Picchu ever taken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/adventure-tours\/short-cusco-inca-trail-2-days-1-nights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Short Cusco Inca Trail 2 days 1 nights<\/a><\/strong>]\n<p>The photo shoot was documented by Destin Sandlin, creator of YouTube&#8217;s educational <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/destinws2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Smarter Every Day channel<\/a>, and sound engineer Gordon McGladdery:<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Jeff!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If you like this post, please remember to share on Facebook, Twitter or Google+<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, photographer Jeff Cremer used a Canon 7D and a 400mm lens to take 1,920 individual pictures of Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,27,378],"tags":[761,247],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cusco","category-machu-picchu","category-news","category-travel-photography","tag-machu-picchu","tag-peru-photography","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}