717 gigapixel image of 'The Night Watch'

Digital Photography Review reports: [edited]

The Rijksmuseum hosts a 717 gigapixel rendition of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' (1642).

Starting in 2019, conservationists used a 100 megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS camera to create 8439 photographs of the paintings. The file size of the image is 5.6 terabytes.

The distance between 2 pixels on the image is 5 micrometers (0.0005 centimeters). One pixel of the image is smaller than a human red blood cell. Each photo has a depth of field of 125 micrometers (0.0125 centimeters).

To ensure each image was properly in focus, the surface of the painting was scanned with lasers, the camera's settings were adjusted for optimal image quality. After each image was captured, a neural network scanned it for colour accuracy and sharpness.

The level of detail captured, coupled with the size of the file, makes it the largest image of a work of art ever captured.

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