Just testing this out --
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Highest-Resolution-Machu-Picchu-Picture-Ever-Taken

How the 16 gigapixel Machu Pichu panorama was made has been added as a related post - related requested by SlipperyPete on that post.

Highest Resolution Machu Picchu Picture Ever Taken has been added as a related post - related requested by SlipperyPete.

>> ^grinter:

>> ^deathcow:
Panorama Done!
frame 1920 of 1920
back LCD lights up
<< NO MEMORY CARD >>

I shot some sun rays breaking through the early morning mist over the mountains around Machu Picchu. It was gorgeous - dream lighting - and about an hour later realized that the camera was set to a ludicrously high ISO. I was devastated. I can't imagine how that guy would have felt if something had gone wrong.


Man... bummer... I hope you got some pictures you liked out of it anyway.

I shot a few hours of a galaxy through the telescope the other day with the ISO set on AUTO. Also a bummer but nothing compared to your story.

>> ^deathcow:

Panorama Done!
frame 1920 of 1920
back LCD lights up
<< NO MEMORY CARD >>


I shot some sun rays breaking through the early morning mist over the mountains around Machu Picchu. It was gorgeous - dream lighting - and about an hour later realized that the camera was set to a ludicrously high ISO. I was devastated. I can't imagine how that guy would have felt if something had gone wrong.

http://videosift.com/video/Highest-Resolution-Machu-Picchu-Picture-Ever-Taken

http://videosift.com/video/How-the-16-gigapixel-Machu-Pichu-panorama-was-made

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Not even Machu Picchu could make this not completely ridiculous and lame. Indian pop culture is so fascinatingly dorky.

The movie was Enthiran (a sci-fi film), the song is Kilimanjaro... what any of them have to do with Kilimanjaro or Macchu Picchu for that matter, is still a good question...

EDIT: To add Cracked's input on the movie: 5 Things You Can Learn about India from Their Action Movies (Page 2)

>> ^Lann:

WTF that have to do with Kilimanjaro?

Now I now how the egyptians built the pyramids and the incans made machu pichu, they hired thousands of OCD youngsters and promised them virgins upon completion.

When I hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu a couple of years ago, we had to shit in similar conditions. Totally worth it though.

My alpaca wool sweater comes from Peru, near Machu Picchu. If it makes you feel better, I'm not supporting the California alpaca wool economy!

This looks a bit like Machu Picchu.

Sup. I'm Jim. I'm a lifelong New Yorker (26 full years) and just finished my undergrad at Hunter College, majoring in Latin and minoring in Physical Anthropology. My battle with college raged for eight years, and I have to say to all doubters and those living in fear: fuck what your parents (and others) say and do it your way. I got into the grad school of my dreams (in Biological Anthropology), and have enough perspective now on what's important that I'm deferring admission for a year so I can go live and teach English as a second language in Taipei, Taiwan.

I travel a lot. It started with a month-long humanitarian trip to rural Kenya when I was 14, digging irrigation trenches in Kondo, Kenya (near Thika) with the Ridgewood, New Jersey, YWCA. That experience affected me deeply, organically engendering in me the staunch idea that race is total bullshit, and I am addicted to constantly proving myself right (also, it might be noted that I was raised by a Jamaican woman whom I loved more than my own mother--I'm of mixed European descent). My latest jaunt was last summer to coastal Ecuador, where I attended an archaeological field school, and where I met my girlfriend. We're going to Peru at the end of this month (I hear they're finally closing Machu Picchu pretty soon due to foot traffic erosion of the ruins), and we'll have less than ten days state-side before we go off together to Taiwan.

VideoSift and science mags are pretty much the only things that I use these here intertubes for. I am a pretty staunch atheist, but my particular brand of atheism has many facets, as I believe every individual's brand of religiousness/spirituality has.

I'm not sure what's going to happen when I get back from Taiwan; I might go to grad school and support myself by teaching high school biology, or I might get my finances in order and check right out of this crazy-ass America hotel. My girl and I are researching what it would take to open a hostel in South America and all the costs associated. But that's just the latest pipe-dream.

K, that's enough about me. Catch y'all on the sift waves!