A new world record in terrestrial panorama size as Gerald Donovan has stitched together over 4000 images to create a 45-gigapixel photograph of Dubai.

4,250 individual shots taken with a Canon 7D and the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L zoom at 400mm. Total shooting time circa 3 hours 30 minutes, in 37C heat (that’s the temperature in the shade – the camera and lens were almost too hot to touch at the end of this).

Some simply ridiculous resolution here, as evidenced by Gizmodo.

via gigapan: Dubai 45 gigapixels.