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If you have a bad hair day at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies tomorrow, watch out.
Getty Images, a global photography agency, will be documenting the entire stadium tomorrow in one enormous 20-gigapixel image that will then be uploaded to the Getty Images UK site overnight.
The image will be created using two Nikon D800s, one mounted on a robotic camera mount, and any of the expected 70,000 attendees will be able to zoom in and tag themselves (we assume on Facebook but Getty didn't specify). Getty says that Fujitsu, a Japanese information and communication technology company, will be helping to "warp, stitch, blend, edit, tile" all the images into one using a CELSIUS workstation called the ‘Monster.’
This isn't the first time something like this has been done. We saw something similar at the FA Cup Final 2011 (soccer), but Getty says this event will be different because it normally takes days to get such a huge file online and theirs should be up within hours thanks to its partnership with Fujitsu, which will also be helping it upload the enormous file.
