For instance, let's go back to the Presidential Inauguration . If you wanted a picture of the whole event, you'd have two choices. 1) Get really far away and get one picture of the entire event with very little detail. Or, 2) take a million little photos and MAYBE, if you have the skill, combine them together into one extremely large photoshop project.But now, there's another option. The GigaPan Epic. Take just about any digital camera, connect it to the GigaPan Epic System, tell the system what to do, and it snaps away taking lots of very detailed photographs of whatever you've pointed it at. Then, the GigaPan software connects and merges all of these photographs into one panoramic picture.
"But," you say. "Isn't the panoramic still going to be extremely large?" And the answer is, yes! The photograph we spoke of earlier concerning Obama's inauguration completed at a whopping 2Gigabytes of space, 220 Canon G10 photos, and 1,474 Megapixels. How could you navigate that thing? Well, the GigaPan Software automatically uploads your photographs to the hosting site where you can use a system similar to Google Maps to navigate, zoom, and move the picture around.
Let's head back to the President's Inauguration for a moment. One man took his GigaPan Epic to the ceremony, hooked it to a railing, and let it snap away. This was the outcome. People have found all sorts of treasures hiding in the large panorama. Treasures like Yo-Yo Ma taking a picture with his iPhone, people sleeping on the lawn, and even as much detail as a security guard's badge.
So, next time you want to pick your nose in public because you're surrounded by people and you think that nobody will ever know, just remember that someone might be photgraphing with the GigaPan Epic and your 2 second endeavor could end up the laughing stock of millions. =)




