A Chinese company reportedly created a photo with such high resolution, you can zoom from thousands of meters away to see people’s facial expressions

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• You might call this the pinnacle of high-resolution images.
• It is the brainchild of a setup called Jinkun Tech, or Bigpixel Technology Corporation, and it was taken from atop the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai.
• The photo resolution, which is the toughest part to wrap one’s mind around, is reportedly 195 gigapixels.
• A megapixel is one million pixels. The resolution of digital cameras and smartphones is often chopped up and measured in megapixels. For example, a 12-megapixel camera can produce images with 12 million total pixels. But, in this case, we’re talking about gigapixels. One gigapixel is 1 billion pixels.
• Hit the link below to try the zoom feature yourself.

Here is the brief story of an obscenely large picture.

It is the brainchild of a setup called Jinkun Tech, or Bigpixel Technology Corporation, and it was taken from atop the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai.

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