A device that lets a camera take pictures with 100 times the
resolution of the most advanced models on the market is poised to
revolutionise amateur photography.

The Gigapan allows people to take pictures which are more than a
gigapixel - or 1,000 megapixels - in size, effectively turning a
single photograph into a panoramic experience, around which the viewer
can navigate on a computer.

Yet the actual camera used is no more specialised than a regular
digital model.

The Gigapan uses a robot mounted on a tripod to command a normal
camera to take several hundred separate photographs of a single scene
- each at a slightly different angle.

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