OMG. This is the coolest Inaugural photo ever

[Perky]

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

You can zoom and pan with great clarity even to the VIP on the Platforms. and wayy back by the water.

Unfurtunatelyy I am hust barely out of the frame where I was standing

[Buzz Clik]

1. Holy Crapoli!!! What kind of equipment does this sucker use? Look at this:

Damn! You can just smell the pain in BushCo crowd.



And look at the clarity zoomed in a gazillion times.




whoa

[question everything]

15. As some pointed last Friday, when we first oooed and aaaed

this is a composition of many photos put together and in some places you can see the merging of two faces, like a person two rows behind Carter, or Warren and Franklin, a few rows behind Cheney, and someone a few rows behind Thomas.

[Connonym]

16. Pickles looks like she drank her breakfast n/t

[ObamaFan19]

18. Bush

I still can't see Bush's clothes.

[dbmk]

20. A Canon G10. Thats their high end P&S

But he used 149 pictures from it. It was mounted on a tool/robot that makes sure that you get coverage of the area you want. But technically it can be done without it.
That it wasn't shot using a DSLR actually surprised me. It could have been even more detailed. But it might be mountable on the device.
More here from the guy who took it:
http://davidbergman.net/Obama.html

The process isn't really that difficult. If you have the pictures, the software does all the hard work. So much so that it seems like magic to me. Perspective correction, picture and color aligning all done for you.
Free tool; http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
Better but not free: http://www.autopano.net/

I used it to stitch this one together from 9 pictures:
http://www.dabomb.dk/US08/DeathValley_DantesPoint_Panorama_03_Final_25p - (add .jpg to it. Its too big to include here)

And thats only 25% the size of the original.

[Raine]

2. Way Cool!

:thumbsup:

[elocs]

3. Yeah, it's cool, but it has already been posted numerous times.

I happy you found it, though and too bad you didn't find you.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. Look at Darth Vader Potter Cheney.

:rofl:

[Ioo]

5. Posted Last Night.. I found myself

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8141356&mesg_id=8141356

[jwirr]

6. I tried to find bohner to see the look on his face but couldn't. nt

[MichiganVote]

7. Wow. Many look so cold. A testament to Michelle Obama for looking so calm.

[Buzz Clik]

8. Apparently the Queen of Soul grew a goatee for the occasion:

And what happened to this poor dude?

[Ioo]

9. this image is stiched together from LOTS of images.. he moved

[Buzz Clik]

10. (yeah. I was joking.)

[Muttocracy]

13. Isn't that Rick Warren's goatee levitating? nt

[Buzz Clik]

22. Ascending. His goatee is ascending, not unlike Jeebus.

[hedgehog]

11. Note the bottled water (?) next to Bush.

Apparently only he and Obama had real chairs, everyone else had to make do with a folding chair! I'm assuming the dude in the white scarf is just sitting in Obama's chair temporarily.

Oops, Joe Biden and Senator Feinstein also got real chairs. Clinton and Poppy didn't.

[stray cat]

12. Justice Thomas looks like he fell asleep

[question everything]

14. Even better. Try to back delete the URL all the way to .org

and hit enter.

And wait a few seconds.

[Connonym]

17. woah

one hopes that's Secret Service

[Hekate]

19. Oh, it is, believe me. nt

[JTFrog]

21. I hope someone found the rest of this poor guy....

[question everything]

23. Fun, isn't it?

Once we end up ooing and aahing over this photos, some start fishing for parts and pieces of people. And, of course, there is the goat tee of Warren attached to poor Aretha Franklin.