717 Gigapixel photo of the Night Watch
Released
2 / 2022
Client
Rijksmuseum
Filed under
Zoomable Storytelling
Link
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/story/ultra-high-resolution-photo
About
This is the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000,000 pixels, in size. The distance between two pixels is 5 micrometres (0.005 millimetre), which means that one pixel is smaller than a human red blood cell.