Zooming in on the Gigapxl Project

A 2004 photo of the Marin Headlands, the Presidio, Alcatraz and Oakland behind San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge was taken with a 480-mm lens by Graham Flint as part of the ultra-high-resolution Gigapxl Project’s Portrait of America.

Here’s how it looks after zooming in on 20 percent of the original area of the photo.

And how it looks after zooming in on 5 percent of the original area of the photo.

After zooming in on 2 percent of the original area of the photo, the image looks like this.

And here’s an image zoomed in on just .05 percent of the original. More detail emerges than is possible with almost any other camera.

This photo was taken with Flint’s custom camera and lenses at a San Diego Padres-Chicago White Sox game at Petco Park in San Diego last year.

Here’s the same image zoomed in on the home team dugout from the outfield seats.

This is how it looks zoomed in on fans on the opposite side of the stadium.

And zoomed in on fans, but even closer.

Though you can’t tell looking at the photograph in standard dimensions, Flint’s camera was able to capture the pitched ball in mid-air before it was hit for a home run.