Shooting a 500 Megapixel Photo!

[@LinusTechTips]

Whoops! Here's a link to the full sized panoramic photos: lmg.gg/Pano

[@AmatuerHourCoding]

Sweet thanks!

[@alan69r]

he forgor💀

[@campbelds]

Alex. I think its time to build Brandon a PI /servo rig to implement that as a robotic rig.

[@VEX_INC]

tnx

[@albertovelez45]

thanks, it looks amazing, my new wallpaper for sure

[@tad2021]

"I'm surprised it hasn't fully crashed" That's only applicable to every Adobe product.

[@heatherjm11]

the most impressive part of this is that it was able to select 70+ RAWs without crashing lightroom immediately

[@alexlandherr]

I use VSDC as my NLE and it can with some effort easily ingested +40k images for a time lapse video on only 16 GB of RAM. It takes >1 hour though.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

@@heatherjm11 - Thats rubbish programming, if you're just selecting files and maybe interrogating file their properties, why would it crash?

[@LostCloudx4]

& Sony Vegas

[@jonasgrill1155]

@@PrinceWesterburg because Adobe just cares about money, not how well the product functions or if thier consumers are happy. Like Apple, they know their loyal fans will continue to buy whatever they release, whether it functions well or not, so why bother spending time and money making it good?

[@aspectpulsar6196]

I'd imagine that Linus randomly advertises LTTstore to his kids at this point.

[@Ace0nPoint]

Probably their first words lmao xD

[@gribbly629]

Back to school shopping is just browsing the warehouse

[@ironmaiden5658]

Throws open the toilet door. “Kids. Have I told you about ridge wallet?”

[@peanutbutter8885]

LMAO

[@randomblock1_]

"I think you kids are old enough for me to tell you... about our sponsor!"

[@kanavsharma3683]

Expected: We got a exclusive Camera with 500mp sensor Reality: MSI laptop is overpowered

[@L39T]

I thought this is what they meant but they just whip out a laptop like bruh I’m so dumb

[@bignose4703]

@@L39T nah the thumbnail is a camera and the title is shooting a 500 megapixel photo, definitely not stupid for thinking that

[@wilkgr]

Hasselblad does sell a 400MP or so camera (really it's a 100MP sensor and it uses sensor-shift but it's still cool).

[@DiminishingAugmentation]

I was expecting some new 125MP medium format camera with pixel shift to make a 500MP photo.

[@Sarcasmka14]

It's Linus Style

[@MatthewBayard]

Fun fact: Lightroom can't do more than 400 images. Don't ask how I know.

[@inkaytoo]

i am not going to ask how you know

[@MatthewBayard]

@@inkaytoo thankyou

[@Christphr]

I do feel like asking, but I won't

[@gyariz553]

How do you know?

[@jonathanmcintosh9896]

I've personally used Lightroom and I've processed way more than 400 images

[@JamesKellyWickerman123]

Oh man I've not seen mention of the Brenizer method in like 10 years. One of my favourite little photography tricks

[@kaitlyn__L]

I fondly remember letting my Core Duo laptop with 2GB RAM churn for a few hours on huge panoramas with the Photomerge tool. Didn’t have the AI fill edge thing then though!

[@KimionTM]

"You can download the photo in the link in the description." So that was a lie

[@twitchcoolbob66]

Yeah

[@bobinthebin6928]

I was kinda disappointed

[@_Vesper]

Floatplane only

[@antonypeter2807]

😭

[@GoTTdk]

@@_Vesper how do you know? The vid is not up yet on Floatplane

[@sachatend]

Ruthlessly roasting MSI while being sponsored by them. God I love this man's honesty lol!

[@ThKolle]

I'm wondering what feedback he is receiving from his sponsors.

[@Zenheizer]

These bots are so damn agressive

[@mauricioyoung6668]

@@ThKolle lmao it doesn’t even matter at this point. Linus can do and say what he wants😂

[@TravisFabel]

oOoOOooh! Can I be the first one to suggest he's roasting them because he's invested in his own laptop company?

[@xdka826]

@@TravisFabel valid, but Linus isn’t usually shy to roast a company for anything either

[@Batreek]

I've been using Photoshop's photomerge for years now, and the fact that "I'm gonna merge SEVENTY ONE images" went from being an obnoxious exaggeration for a desktop to legitimately possible on a LAPTOP completely blows my mind.

[@anotoman123]

The algorithm's progressed pretty well through the ages, too. Considering smartphones use a similar tech to do panorama in realtime. Infact, I wouldn't be surprised if some manufacturer just modded it to work in both axes instead.

[@aronseptianto8142]

@@anotoman123 panorama has the benefit of being able to access phone accelerometer n gyroscope though

[@666Tomato666]

@@anotoman123 phones generate far lower resolution image though, making the stitching process much easier (as it can be an order of magnitude less precise)

[@retrorevival1]

I did something similar on a Vaio laptop I had almost 10 years ago and I had to leave it over night, it took about 13 hours to do a 200mp image. 8GB of RAM =DDD

[@snjert8406]

@@retrorevival1 ouch hahahahaha

[@corbinwesler3985]

The Brenizer method is one of my go-to ways of shooting when I don’t have my medium format camera with. The amount of detail is insane when you start pixel peeping.

[@4Plyable]

Brandon has such a great presence on camera, I'd love to see him in more videos

[@michaellau5329]

Hey, so for anyone attempting this method, there's different projection modes for stitching an image like this, but Lightroom/Photoshop is generally pretty good at compensating for misalignment of the camera and such. Getting a tripod and aligning it will yield way better results, especially when the seams between images aren't the best.

[@TheScarvig]

any experiences with moving objects in the pictures? cuz i see peopöe and animals which definitely didnt stand still for the entirety of more than 200 photos. if they are center frame no problems i guess, but when they are in the edge?

[@10Tie]

@@TheScarvig I mean what do you think will happen lol

[@snowwsquire]

@@TheScarvig get the moving parts of the image first

[@iusegentoobtw]

I use microsoft ICE and shoot handheld generally - then cleanup any artifacting. Way easier than manual in photoshop imo.

[@iusegentoobtw]

@@TheScarvig you'll run into issues with parallax more than the problem of people moving. (unless that person is your subject, but you'll shoot them, then the surrounding in a Z pattern). Avoid chainlink fences or anything with tight geometry to save yourself a headache.

[@AdamIverson]

Next challenge: use Topaz Gigapixel AI to upscale each 24mp photo (using 6x, which is 36 times the pixels) into 864mp and then try to stitch it up. I'm pretty sure that your system will fail.

[@memevengers251]

Seems like a great idea ngl

[@TheTempic]

Doesnt work. It cannot scale 6x it stops at 5,33x when importing a 24 MP image. Result will be ~683 MP.

[@matesaktesak]

@@TheTempic Gigapixel is awsome anyway - esspecialy for that price!

[@konbiex4684]

@Linus Tech Tips pls give link to foto !!!!

[@wekkimeif7720]

Topaz Gigapixel has no real AI. Results mostly are same you can get manually using filters in Photoshop. Gigapixel doesn't add pixels in photos, it just creates filters on them and stretches them.

[@tayloraldridge3063]

You know, i love watching linus on screen (wouldn't be on the channel otherwise), but the others are what really make this my favorite. Alex and his engineering, Brandon and cameras, Anthony and his Linux and retro knowledge. Everyone brings a different specialty that really elevates everything

[@thestig007]

I agree. Everyone has their special talents that they bring to the show.

[@otakuapocalypse]

Agreed. I was at one point more curious about why they were capturing Super Mario World in the background than what happened with the photo. Maybe because I knew of the method beforehand and was mainly interested in which Fujifilm lenses they were using :)

[@LonelySandwich]

"Frameworks approves this message"

[@quanda1edingle894]

Cream

[@rubenboyle]

Wet

[@quanda1edingle894]

Juicy

[@spongegareal]

Amogus sauce

[@4star.diamond]

Bro your every where

[@JGZphotography]

As a professional photographer "The Brenizer" method should be taken using a 135 or 200mm at the lowest f/setting or wide open. The idea is to achieve a narrow depth of field (DOF) with a wide-angle look. Great for portraits. A 50mm lens doesn't give the greater DOF, and taking more than 20 images is absurd-16 is usually sufficient. Adobe Camera Raw has a pano merge option that works well to convert the RAW files into a single DNG to be converted into JPG in various supporting applications. For processing, a laptop or PC workstation with 8-cores and 64 GB RAM is important. Those who read this may not have this interest, but the MSI Z16 laptop is a jewel but lacks the Ethernet Port and the 90 WHr battery where the GS66 Black Stealth provides a 99.9 Whr battery for a longer run time, which I own with 64 GB RAM, and it is super-fast batch processing and editing my sports photos.

[@ArticTiger]

Linus walking the "a framework it ain't" minefield in a sponsored video when talking about upgradability is going to be my new favourite thing going forward.

[@nster3]

I feel like he put a bit more pep in the positive note at the end to appease sponsors, I personally can't trust his laptop reviews anymore but they'll be entertaining at least! I'm still in the camp that he could have helped framework without investing money even if it would be a poor decision time-investment-wise for LMG. His voice for right to repair is affected now, since he technically now benefits from it, even if in practice it would hardly ever influence Linus

[@ArticTiger]

@@nster3 I trust the Linus brand a bit more than that. I do think however they should have highlighted the fact that upgrading the RAM required them to take the motherboard out more than they did. I feel like that could be over-course correcting in a way.

[@nster3]

@@ArticTiger Haha I wrote that in my initial comment and but erased it before posting thinking since it's sponsored content and the only reason they didn't get the 64GB is LTT's fault, they wouldn't want to penalize MSI especially if MSI never mentioned upgradeability in the talking points @Karan Shah Emphasizing right to repair, serviceability and the like helps but Framework be in the spotlight, and changes the conversation. If Louis Rossman, Linus, MKBHD never advocated for right to repair, the movement would have been quite different

[@roundcube2948]

@@nster3 sounds like your looking for faults before they even have time to manifest

[@p0k3mn1]

Karan Shah yeah it’s not into workstations yet or stuff that high end

[@AhmadNasriya]

This is by far the most confusing, insane, video. From the moment I opened the video and saw the laptop, I was like: I'm sure the thumbnail was a camera, and the title was "Shooting a 500 MP...".

[@MrScorpianwarrior]

The product was super sweet, but yeah I had to make sure they didn't mis-title it.

[@hassanbeydoun2460]

"Rendering a 500MP photo" is probably more accurate 🙂

[@strangersound]

Masterful clickbait. I clicked it because I thought they were looking at a 500 megapixel camera.

[@KingJojoB]

This is actually really insane

[@sqweezo2605]

lmao who are you

[@romiec1404]

dude why are you everywhere

[@LightningSquad]

I love it when the notification shows up 'someone liked your comment' and "you have a new subscriber"'''

[@its0gravity]

12 min video, posted 2 mins after posted...

[@LightningSquad]

I uploaded my Face Reveal........

[@PhanieDaemonia]

I've been doing this for YEARS (long before there was an automated process for it!) and had no idea it had a name other than "panorama pictures" or stitching.

[@GladinGAFloodGoFundMe]

I love that we're seeing more and more 16:10 displays. It's about time.

[@CockatooDude]

Now if only we could see them for desktop monitors, that would be awesome.

[@osswriter]

It’s been a standard on Macbooks for so long I can’t remember when it started. The Macbook 1,1 in 2006 perhaps? It was also standard on PC laptops many years ago.

[@Almighty_Flat_Earth]

We desperately need desktop monitors with 16.10 ratio or 21.10 ratio with at least 144hz, True 10-bit color depth, HDR10 , DisplayHDR1000 nits, HBR3, DP 2.0 and HDMI 2.1, and it must have at least 100,000 full array local dimming zones. This world is not perfect. Why don't manufacturers just make a monitor with these specifications? 16.9 ratio sucks. Governments should allow to sell only 16.10 and 21.10 ratio monitors for a year or two. we can live our life whole hearted.

[@4amoats]

linus is slowly turning into a grizzly bear just like our sponsor, tunnelbear

[@eagle7015]

The good old days where tunnel best was the sponsor

[@4amoats]

@@eagle7015 now Linus had become one because of his passion for them

[@samiraperi467]

What about Thermal Grizzly?

[@4amoats]

@@samiraperi467 yes, thermal grizzly because you're too hot ahhha. Cute cat

[@malikhaidar]

I watch too many tunnel bear ads that here I'm probably gonna do a thing.

[@t.r.2283]

MSI: hey we have a new product. When is Brandon's holiday?

[@clfeuillet]

In my work I do this all day using the PTGUI software and 500 shots of 42Mp A7RIII, getting gigapixel shots and it works perfectly on a laptop or a 32gb ram, ryzen 3900x desktop. Less than 20 minutes of processing time. Using lightroom is not efficient at all for this kind of jobs. Adobe is everything but professional in their image handling softwares. Also Bokehrama has to be taken with a panoramic head with no parallax (finding nodal point). This avoid stitching issues!

[@Askaly]

May I ask what exactly you do? Where is this resolution needed?

[@inv41id]

Yeah they might have nice interfaces or a large number of features but they're quite lacking in terms of efficient code

[@Xiph1980]

I've actually stitched panos using Hugin on an Acer Switch 12 sporting an Intel Core M-5Y10a which has a 4.5W TDP, and it worked fine. Not sure what Adobe is doing to require such a machine and an hour of processing time...

[@clfeuillet]

@@Askaly hdri stitching for vfx and texture creation for some special cgi needs. for example i can shoot 32768x32768 pixels wide anisotropic fingerprints, dirt textures etc for extreme closeups needs, or just for clients that needs a 8 or 16K picture but extremely sharp, so I have to use downscale from 16 or 32K to 8 or 16k.

[@crqch]

@@clfeuillet is it possible for you to upload this gigapixel picture? im really amazed this is possible and would like to see it

[@boyster3980]

"Enough foreplay though, the technique we are going to be using to create the bigger picture" - Linus 2021 before bed

[@Sam_995]

Linus probably took a selfie of himself after having so many photos of him taken and preferred the selfie

[@manaspradhan8041]

That is such a weirdly specific situation lmfao

[@SuperRphoto]

I used to do this manually in college on a Sony VAIO laptop (15 years ago). It would take me about a weekend doing it with ~200 photos and there would be about 1-5 minutes wait-and-see time between adjustments, so I would do it while watching marathons of movies in my dorm. Now I have a workstation that I custom built to do it, with 128 GB of RAM and a 1 TB NVME drive that I use as a Photoshop scratch disk. I had to add my data RAID to the Photoshop scratch pool in order to save the last project that I worked on because I used over 1 TB of scratch disk space (luckily, it's 10 TB of RAID storage). Some of the work I make could be printed billboard size at photo resolution. I probably should scale that down before I build them because there's no way anyone is going to pay me enough to print one that big...

[@mikkelbreiler8916]

Maybe ask Linus if he will let you print something that big. Maybe build a computer just for the video to do this job.

[@vzdragon]

hey i subscribed maybe one day you'll make a video showing your process or showing off your work. Super interesting stuff im sure people would love to see :)

[@arnaujaimee]

Where can i see some of your work? Thanks in advance👍

[@SuperRphoto]

@@vzdragon Thanks! Hopefully one day. The shoot process is very boring, as many of my friends and family can attest to. I'm the guy who holds up the group to take photos for 1-2 hours. Assembly on the computer is 10-20 times as long if I'm lucky and then I have to do the color correction and masking!

[@SuperRphoto]

@@mikkelbreiler8916 I should have done a build video for my current machine, but I'd be curious to see what LTT would come up with that would put this rig to shame!

[@xentiment6581]

Linus: I'm probably not reviewing laptops anymore Also Linus:

[@14ftdude]

he isnt reviewing the laptop

[@musguelha14]

1: not a review 2: clearly stated as sponsored content

[@SmoreJoy]

I wonder if this was recorded before that video.

[@LightningSquad]

I love it when the notification shows up 'someone liked your comment' and "you have a new subscriber"'''

[@LightningSquad]

I uploaded my Face Reveal........

[@rebe01]

Confirmed: In Canada, they just call Canada Geese “Geese”.

[@TonyisToking]

Lol

[@volvo09]

Honkers

[@LifeWithMatthew]

Laptop manufacturers need to stop making upgrades difficult by requiring you to remove the motherboard to get to commonly upgraded components.

[@krane15]

Tell that to Apple. With them everything's soldiered in, so the laptop you buy is the laptop you own. Zero upgrades possible. You can't even change your own battery. The price you pay for such a thin laptop.

[@VicMK]

Brandon: "You guys can download it in the link in the description." Description:

[@sic22l]

There's a link to the LTT forum and someone posted both photos there.

[@Steamrick]

Someone uploaded it on google drive in the LTT Forum thread (which is linked in the description).

[@Azylethe]

@@Steamrick download limit reached - nobody can download for a while :(

[@BixbyConsequence]

@@Azylethe Check the forum link; someone re-uploaded it somewhere else. 285MB jpeg!

[@NotaBeast]

For those who are wondering: When added all together, the Harry Potter books contain 1,084,171 words.

[@theratofwallstreet8665]

Thanks man

[@insantonua]

try ptgui for rendering composites like this, doesn't have content aware fill but renders way faster and you can repair your stitching manually if there's something off.

[@666Tomato666]

Hugin is also an option

[@SebTheGameryoutubereal]

PTGUI is the best!

[@NabekenProG87]

Do you have any experience with Hugin? How do the two compare? I like the absolute control of Hugin, but it's a lot of work

[@ArekBlomka]

used to stitch several >100 18MPix dngs for ~750Mpix output on 2008 Q9450 with 8 gigs of ram. Also tripod, Gigapan head with autopano software for Easy overlap management

[@kokoze]

@@NabekenProG87 Hugin is ok... they're pretty much the same thing but ptgui is a bit more polished software

[@Silvern1]

Thanks team, this is a HEAPS better way of doing a laptop review with legit real world usage. Please do more like this, this a great video :)

[@iflowslow]

the final image is insane. would have been cool to see use Fuji's pixel-shift to capture initial frames and then merge those into the final panorama. that would make the laptop sweat for sure. :D

[@KP3droflxp]

Pixel sift doesn't really work for these kinds of images. Far too much movement in the leaves, water, cars and such. Also the camera needs to be on an incredibly solid tripod.

[@iflowslow]

@@KP3droflxp for sure they would need to find a more appropriate subject matter but would be fun to see. the final image (if succeeds to render out) would be just insanely massive. :)

[@Almighty_Flat_Earth]

We desperately need desktop monitors with 16.10 ratio or 21.10 ratio with at least 144hz, True 10-bit color depth, HDR10 , DisplayHDR1000 nits, HBR3, DP 2.0 and HDMI 2.1, and it must have at least 100,000 full array local dimming zones. This world is not perfect. Why don't manufacturers just make a monitor with these specifications? 16.9 ratio sucks. Governments should allow to sell only 16.10 and 21.10 ratio monitors for a year or two. we can live our life whole hearted.

[@mikaelangelo6940]

9:49 "every 10 % counts" this is when I realised I shouldn't be watching this on company time...

[@jacobeaton4042]

Hey Linus and team, I know it’s a long shot but can y’all post more photography related videos? It’s a pretty lacking field in terms of well explained terminology and presentation and you guys do it perfectly!! It would be a huge help to new photographers everywhere

[@Johno144]

A real photographer would of used a 200mm and taken 30 paces back for a better effect. Then use multiple exposures for HDR to bring out highlights

[@lobsterbark]

@@Johno144 Or just used large format or maybe medium format film and get that resolution natively.

[@Johno144]

@@lobsterbark even better

[@frazerjames9271]

@@Johno144 A real photographer is one who makes money from his profession… Not one who does exactly as you say 🤦‍♂️

[@Johno144]

@@frazerjames9271 A real photographer trains in their craft and masters the art of capturing light. Not buying a camera from Costco, and getting paid to take photos.

[@ethanarendse]

Brandon: "They're not gonna know" Linus: "They're gonna know"

[@andrewtate4635]

who is Brandon?

[@Hotimpulse]

I wonder which reps were sweating more profusely while watching this video, MSI's or Adobe's? 😰

[@GavinGroth]

Part of the reason the tree got all screwed up is likely because there is too many photos you tried to render of the same feature. I found it’s best to overlap 1/3 on each photo, for less chance of the program screwing up your photo mosaic.

[@thestig007]

Yep, over shooting doesn't help. Just be methodical about overlapping enough on each shot and you should be good. Practice makes perfect.

[@mrclown7469]

500 megapixel photos? Makes me wish Linus still had his OnlyFans 😅

[@LightningSquad]

I uploaded my Face Reveal........

[@sixunity1171]

@@LightningSquad who tf are you

[@NoTraceOfSense]

@@LightningSquad Hitman 2 | Diplomat “Shut up! Nobody asked!”

[@hridinsbiju9023]

@@LightningSquad Did i ask?.. And who are you?

[@protimsinha]

Hmm

[@haysee25]

When I saw Fuji in the thumbnail and a claim of 500 megapixels, I thought they were gonna do some stuff with the pixelshift features on their newer models. This is a technique I’m surprised I’ve never heard of.

[@djmixerdomo]

I used to do this all the time with Microsoft's Image Composite Editor (ICE). It has the AI auto-fill feature too and even supported videos.

[@motalasuger]

It was so much easier to get a “working” image with it, but too bad it seemed like the development of it stopped many years ago.

[@CollinTheBlind]

Honestly this is one of those tricks I'd love to use just to make phtotos from a vacation seem so much more fantastic to anyone I show them to. Another one I have used is taking a bunch of pctures of the same scene to get rid of a bunch of the other people in the photo that aren't my focus. My family loved the pictures I provide to them after a vacation, and I think I could use this to give them even better ones.

[@jeddjoseph237]

This is what crime solvers use when they say "zoom in on that" and "can you enhance this photo?"

[@ryotaokura5117]

was gonna comment this with: "ENHANCE!!"

[@NeonVisual]

Normal person - Carefully runs knife along a gap between taped cardboard. Linus - Hacks corners off the box to reveal creamy toffee interior.

[@remyb2154]

-So, how may megapixels do you want? -yes :)

[@grdprojekt]

One tip for maximizing the image quality by shooting RAW: shoot one picture with wide lens to the rough area you want to shoot, then keeping the exact aperture, ISO, and shutter speed, shoot with tele lens panoramically. In Lightroom import all of them and _only_ edit the wide shot as a reference, when you're happy with it just sync the adjustments to the rest of the tele photos (if there's some over/underexposed photos.. well it's just a tiny part of one image in the end), and finally merge it as panorama. Also, while you shooting tele panoramically make sure to use manual focus and focusing on one point you want to shoot at the beginning and leave it there, that's the point of this method.

[@nicks2658]

Props to the editors of this video

[@Edu_RJR]

I've used this to make 360º panoramas with my drone, it automatically takes a 14MP panorama but it can save the photos separatedly and I end up with 100MP panorama using photoshop merger, i believe the total photos is like 20 photos for the 360º views that I put on google maps

[@pewnice92]

I wanna see it, where did you take the photo ?

[@thepylonperspective]

Me watching this on a 720p display: “This sure sounds cool…

[@toshineon]

There's no display in the world that can display a full 500 MP. If I'm not mistaken, even 4K only equates to about 12MP or so.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@toshineon 8K monitors can display 7680 × 4320 or 33 megapixel photo (or maybe "99" megapixels if you think same way as camera marketing departments which pretend that the bayer filter is same as having real pixels). 4K monitor has "only" 8.3 megapixels.

[@nikoshyper5273]

Linus: Shooting a 500 megapixel photo Me watching in 240p: mmm that looks so sharp

[@Condleo]

Love to see you are still doing laptops reviews Linus !!

[@passionfly1]

@4:03 "Enough foreplay though" Yes, we have quite enough of that nasty business... LOL

[@africsnail4985]

There is actually something similar to this built into GCam on mobile. You can either take 360 degree spherical photos or merge 9 photos into one ultra-wide one

[@baconwizard]

I swear panoramic photos have existed on phones for ages, and they take the photos automatically so you don’t end up with 71 pictures.

[@africsnail4985]

@@baconwizard Yeah, but this one is a bit different since you take the individual photos by pointing the phone on dots on screen and there are some modes which are not standard

[@sushimshah2896]

@@africsnail4985 yep, I gave it a try after downloading GCam mainly for night-sight as my phone's night mode ain't that good. But the stitching was rather bad even for regular panos, the 'fake' UW looked decent detail-wise but the fov looked rather weird, and the 360 was also average. Maybe it's better on the Pixels Or maybe it was this bad bcoz I tried all these modes on a beach.

[@africsnail4985]

@@sushimshah2896 Yeah, the stitching often isn't perfect, but I still find in useful and fun from time to time. Mainly the spherical mode.

[@zeke7515]

I love gigapixel images. Would love to see another video going more in depth!

[@airshaped]

The abilities of modern cameras are genuinely impressive

[@LightningSquad]

I uploaded my Face Reveal.......

[@Neuzahnstein]

and software

[@JohnWalz97]

This is more a software ability than a camera ability... The fact that we can stitch together hundreds of photos as one is the impressive part.

[@shinichi9do]

you forgot the software, a.i and the processor

[@JuanPretorius]

set the render process as low priority and you can continue to use your PC.

[@jezt48]

Brandon is so much more confident in terms of hosting and I love it. Well done!

[@Mp57navy]

Linus: "I just bought stock in a laptop company, so I might have to recuse myself from laptop reviews!" Also Linus:

[@inv41id]

This isn't a review, it's a sponsored showcase (read: an advertisement), so there's no need to be unbiased in the first place

[@Steamrick]

This was probably shot before the Framework video and merely came out after...

[@Canned0Laughter]

Does anyone else remember Microsoft ICE? I mean, it didn't hold up to the modern software, but at the time it was an excellent lightweight photo stitcher. I actually have a couple of prints hanging on my wall from photos I took using this method. Don't know why they discontinued support on it, it was great.

[@v3xman]

I still have the installer for it. I’ve never fired it up ever since i got lightroom

[@nakedexposure964]

My first year in college studying photography we had to this method on lightroom, let’s just say the iMac’s with 8gb of ram were loving life :) It’s great the results you can get though

[@Kevin-rk3ef]

I estemate it took about a week to finish?

[@nakedexposure964]

@@Kevin-rk3ef only used around 50 images, took around 20 minutes! It was a 24mp DSLR so actually not too bad - but you couldn’t move the mouse because 100% cpu, gpu and ram was being used

[@DistinguishedGamers]

I did this method years ago for making a 360 panoramic tour of a school. Works quite well, but gets sketch with full panoramic stitching.

[@acfreeman]

Haven't used it in a while, but I found that Microsoft ICE could do huge panorama stitching like this in a tiny fraction of the time

[@nukularpictures]

Yeah I've is so much better. I used to make gigapixel images with that on a much less powerful machine that this laptop and it worked great

[@ShaneRounce]

Linus: I'll be "hands-off" with laptops from now on. Also Linus:

[@user-kq3xn3jp7m]

Its sponsered, so incentives are canceled out

[@ShaneRounce]

@@ragepoweredgamer tbf it’s a sponsored segment and not a review. So it might not apply?

[@NixKanal528]

You can eliminate parallax errors while merging by using a rig that rotates around your lenses optical center. Also Lightroom isn't always the best option for panorama merging.

[@matthieuzglurg6015]

NGL I clicked on the video only because of the X-T4. That camera is a beast

[@hughjassstudios9688]

I just wish X Mount had more third party support

[@kushaalprasad2178]

Same.. But i only have xt2's and xh1

[@matthieuzglurg6015]

@@hughjassstudios9688 sigma announced that they can do X mount lenses now. Viltrox has been doing some good primes also. And Fuji glass isn't something to spit on I guess

[@rainbowninja69420]

I love how ltt content is optimised for ultrawide monitors :)

[@mcbean1]

for anyone wanting to try this, for a basic gigapixel make sure you lock your camera in manual mode so that all the settings remain the same, be careful of high contrast scenes because you might end up blowing out parts or having parts underexposed seeing as your exposure will be locked. Likewise scene with water or wind will also prove to be difficulty seeing as you won't be able to line up waves or swaying trees easily. You might want to shoot jpeg (as opposed to RAW) to reduce file size which means pay attention to the colour temp. If you want to do the effect they referred to, use a telephoto lens, take a photo of your subject in focus, then lock the focus so you can get the rest of the scene with the nice blur

[@Graphics_Card]

I just love how Linus’s comment section is being filled with bunch of bots already just like penguinz0.

[@yen5625]

who doesn’t?

[@16bittango86]

13:01 Linus: "... take the bottom of the chassis off" Subtitles: "take the bottom of the chastity off" Not sure who writes your subtitles, but they've been getting increasingly less accurate in recent times. Sincerely, a mostly-deaf viewer

[@Dukes3677]

I assume they're auto generated tbh.

[@p0k3mn1]

Subtitles are usually either done by viewers or automatically for most youtubers

[@charm3979]

probably one of those AI-powered subtitle generation

[@kurtnelle]

The first test of Linus' non-biased laptop reviews? So far so good!

[@supernewbie694]

not a review, they got paid for it. it's a showcase.

[@kevo05s]

He did say he'd be as unbiased as possible. And, even as an investor, doesn't make him less of an enthusiast when it comes to special, crazy hardware.

[@KozmoPoly]

It's sponsored, so it's not a review

[@mikesphotography]

This is a really addictive technique to do in your photography and I've taught a lot of people to do it properly. 👍 I do them all the time, but then my laptop grinds to a halt when I go overboard with how many images I use...apart from that, it's pretty easy, like Michael Lau said, there are a few different projections to choose from so just pick the one that works best for you and the environment you're photographing.

[@linkVIII]

Having written code to handle images of that size, I can tell you having more ram just solves a lot of problems. Also don't use a c++ library that will let you accidentally make copies. [Eigen isn't my friend]

[@marleystar3]

Nice, we can now see Linus dropping RTX3090's in 500 megapixels

[@ponyote]

Dude, that thing is so beefy I can almost feel my arteries clogging. Woof.

[@derekwong1063]

Brandon should see if he can expense a Gigapan Epic automatic photo head. Basically a robotic head that shoots a perfect grid for panoramas. Also to those who are seriously considering epic panoramas look into the parallax point and take into account the compression of your lens. A stitched 74 degree FOV from a 85mm lens looks totally different than a 74 degree FOV from a single 24mm.

[@PinataOblongata]

Was going to mention this. You want a pano head that rotates your lens around its nodal point. I built one out of a shelving bracket from the hardware store that works fine, but buying a proper Nodal Ninja or other commercial option will be nicer to use.

[@Cubulation]

Wow, the sense of depth in that last photo is really really interesting

[@yourmomsfriedgravy]

An Austin Powers reference and a holy sniekies all in one video wow thanks!

[@BlackMajj]

Damn, so LR can do stitching automagically for us now? I remember back in the day when I did a big panorama over Grand Canyon. Had to spend days in stitcher moving around anchorpoints on the individual pictures. And had I missed overlap on just one of the images I'd have been fresh out of luck! :/ Took a while to render out on my Athlon 64. ;)

[@stephenpartridge686]

LR can do stitching and can also do HDR panoramas too!!

[@nsp585]

PS could do it 10 years ago

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

This is why it's frustrating when people are like "why would I record in 4k/8k? There's no point" Zoom is the point lol.

[@DIProgan]

Percentage of photos and videos you would like to zoom in? Not many

[@baranoid]

@@DIProgan Photos? Around 40% actually. Videos, on the other hand, 2% and that's a maybe

[@silverrayleigh6284]

@@DIProgan 100% for both, at least in Lightroom and premier pro.

[@3411HeavenMedia]

We have reached the download quota... RIP

[@davidwilson6522]

I was bummed

[@mobiletechdetective4561]

What a downer! Cool channel btw!

[@questionasker9536]

LOL LINUS BROKE GOOGLE DRIVE

[@greatlivebroadcasts3660]

@@questionasker9536 how on earth does google drive not have enough power to download these files

[@roggiepogi211]

I want to see Brandon host a video when the topic is all about cameras! I want to see his geekiness!! 💓

[@spyhunter6411]

The Brenizer method is so much fun to use. The pictures it makes are unlike anything else you can take in any other way. I do photography stuff as a side gig/hobby, and end up doing portraits for a lot of people. I love throwing one Brenizer photo into the bunch to see if they end up picking that one to post or send out or whatever; they often do.

[@BoSaGuy]

Linus: I won’t be doing any laptop reviews/give my opinion on other laptops unless I get really excited. I will try to keep it to a minimum. Me:*inhales* Linus: Hey guuuuys, this is Austin.

[@LPvi1]

probably this video was recorded before all of that

[@BoSaGuy]

@@LPvi1 r/whoosh it doesn’t matter if it was, it’s just a joke. Idc if Linus becomes a bit opinionated, he’d still be more honest than other tech youtubers.

[@Burssty]

Your "professional" subtitle guys just called a chassis a "chastity"

[@schrodingus_0072]

Aww...Linus called Brandon his "dream photographer"

[@RowanHawkins]

If you have a Nodal compensating mount then the pictures look even better because every picture is taken with the same perspecive as iff from a single point. The blurryness mostly goes away and you dont get funky broken trees.

[@abosaleh3318]

One of your best videos recently. Beautiful

[@BingsDIY]

It clearly took quite a bit of effort to replace the ram given that the entire motherboard had to be removed. Why not show the process instead of glossing over it and make the MSI laptop look so user-friendly for ram replacement? I guess it is a sponsored video after all.

[@Learning2BeBrave]

damnening

[@hypertechhd16]

You're nitpicking and biased, I win, bye bye

[@ConnorRoss]

i mean they did show it

[@TheTempic]

Yeah, the performance of Lightroom is not really great with larger panoramic images. Largest panorama I shot was 13.5 GP so 13,500 Megapixel stiched out of almost 1500 seperate images. This is pretty much impossible for lightroom and would take forever. If you do want to do large panoramas I would strongly suggest dedicated software for this.

[@kavishbansal]

Examples of the said dedicated software?

[@simonhutchings6547]

Ptgui

[@-Burb]

@@kavishbansal ICE

[@TheTempic]

@@kavishbansal PTGui is one, I am using PanoramaStudio 3 Pro, that is quiet a bit cheaper and also gave me significantly better results with multi gigapixel images.

[@jul3kpl311]

I started watching your videos a half hour ago and you are my fav KZbinr now : )

[@SirShadeSquamous]

I have to say, very cool you guys did a video covering this method of hi-res photography that anyone can do with the right knowledge. I make equirectangular panos in a similar method to this but with a wide angle lens, they also come out to around 500 megapixels. Only suggestion is use a pano head next time, it helps tremendously with not missing any sections in your photo and more importantly with avoiding parallax error that causes rendering errors as seen at 9:25 with the tree. Oh yeh, I dont use lightroom so not sure about memory consumption, but with ptgui and Microsoft ICE 32gb of ram is plenty for this kind of render.

[@AJ-em2rb]

12-16 photos has been my brenizeer sweet spot. photos usually taken in a roughly 4x4 or 4x3 grid. definitely use AEL/AFL if you're not rocking full manual controls and manual focus though

[@micahgin]

At what point does a photo cease being a "photo" and becomes an art project or an computer generated image?

[@theonik2006]

People who actually care about photography will probably tell you "since before you pick up a camera".

[@obiromaniankenobi1136]

A gigapixel is still a photo. Its the endresult that counts. If you add stuff, its a composite. It you take stuff away and nobody notices, its still a photo and nobody cares anyway. Its the endresult that matters

[@carpeicthus]

It’s an interesting argument. In a way it’s not a photo, but in others it certainly is. Is a long exposure a photo? Or, more directly, are the old digital backs that worked more like scanners a photo? It’s a genuine question: maybe? This at least entirely gets its effects from actual optics, perspective, and light, unlike things like sky replacements, liquify, etc. I wouldn’t use it for hard news photojournalism but in most venues if you like it and don’t lie about it then anything is fair game.

[@samjingling8641]

isn't this more of a philosophical question

[@micahgin]

I come from an old school film photography background, so for me I tend to do things straight from the camera. I do appreciate software post processing, but usually only for minor tweaks like color balance and exposure. It drives me nuts to see some people claim to have taken an awesome photo, only to see that they took a "spray and pray" approach and let the computer composite it into an image. To me, the line between art and technology is blurred a lot these days.

[@1over137]

I don't get it. I have been doing multi-mega pixel multi-shot images for ages and never had an issue with memory or render time.

[@thiagoromero569]

they clarify later that the methods they used were completely over the top, it was just an interesting way to test the notebook's performance on its limits

[@NerdyMeathead]

sucks that laptops keep getting more expensive with less and less IO ports.

[@BobIzam]

2 things for if you wanna do it really properly (and not just to test like these guys): 1. Use a tripod and unless you have a panoramic head make sure there aren't things that are too close to the lens (they'll shift as you move the camera around and it messes things up) 2. Before stitching, remove the vignetting in each photo (so that you don't get light and dark spots, you can see it in their second image). An easy way to do this is by taking a Gray or white photo with the same camera and lens at exactly the same settings (same focus as well) and then subtracting it in Photoshop.

[@MarcoDeRossi]

Maybe someone else has said this, but this would work much beter with a nodal tripod head, which allows to position the camera in the no parallax point so when you rotate the camera there are no changes, and the stitching can be perfect. You can easily make gigapixel images with very little effort and no unwanted pictures (73 pictures is a lot more than what you need). The nodal head is often used for seamless 360 images made with multiple pictures.

[@ripudamansharma5990]

500 MP will be normal in smartphones in 5-6 years.

[@ItsWillLee]

Nope..

[@ripudamansharma5990]

@@DemeDemetre it hits right in the feels ;(