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717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch

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565 points gaws | 3 comments | 25 Jan 22 00:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Gigachad ◴[25 Jan 22 01:42 UTC] No.30066801[source]▶
Does anyone know how big the image would be in file size? This website downloads everything in tiles so its hard to tell.
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groby_b ◴[25 Jan 22 01:53 UTC] No.30066894[source]▶
5.6TB

You can read up on all the details on the Rijksmuseum's site dedicated to the nightwatch. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/operation...

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1. kloch ◴[25 Jan 22 02:07 UTC] No.30066993[source]▶
Interesting... this implies 64 bits per pixel. What format would that be, 16 bits per color RGBA?
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2. kjeetgill ◴[25 Jan 22 02:18 UTC] No.30067058[source]▶
Maybe that size includes the redundancy with all tiling layers of different resolution?

edit: reading the link in the GP closer, they seem to refer to the full imagine, but it looks like they extracted the drawing underneath the painting. So I'd guess something must be from outside the visible spectrum.

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3. zerd ◴[25 Jan 22 19:17 UTC] No.30076593[source]▶
In this video [1] he mentions that each 100mp image is around 600MB, which aligns with the size of the 4-shot multi-shot mode of the H6D-400C MS. 8439 photos 579MB would be around 4.7TB in raw format.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_hm5oX7ZlE [2] https://www.hasselblad.com/h-system/h6d-400c-multi-shot/