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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 3, 2006 - 10:45pm PT
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http://www.xrez.com/gallery/yosemite/xRez_yose.html
Pretty amazing. Apparently there's a climber somewhere on the face of Half Dome, and although I haven't looked super closely I'm sure there are some parties on El Cap as well.
Pretty sweet technology though.
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WBraun
climber
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Thanks ..... AWESOME!
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clmnbrd
Trad climber
Gardnerville, NV
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Wow, way cool! Can't wait for their Tahoe stuff to show.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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cool!!!
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Rags
Trad climber
Sierra foothills, CA
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Awesome, Can't find the climber.
I think it's a troll. Do people really climb that, or
do they ALL use the cables HAAAA, HAAAAAAAAAAAA
(thanx for that reality check WB...cable pics).
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lazide
Big Wall climber
Bay Area, CA
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I see a party topping out on zodiac
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murcy
climber
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Awesome.
I got a very high-res El Cap image I found online done into a huge poster for my kid. Something like $40 and a really nice result.
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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Pretty cool.
Good eyes lazide. Here are the guys topping on Zodiac.
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Kevster
Trad climber
Evergreen, CO
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There is another party on the Teflon corner pitch of the Salathe. No bags in sight.
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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the climber on Half Dome is way down on the first few pitches.
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le_bruce
climber
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Spectacular, thanks for the link. Did you check out the high rez time-lapse? Reminds me of the feeling of anxiousness when you look down, see the west rim shadow creeping up the SW base, and still have pictches and pitches to go before you rest. 'We didn't cross the shadow, the shadow crossed us!'
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Fantastic site. (Not so fantastic for our dial-up friends, maybe...) If it's reasonably permanent, maybe there should be a conspicuous link from the ST site to it - a good resource and inspiration.
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sling512
Trad climber
Chicago
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Dang. I get this when I try to go here at work:
"Health;Sexual Materials" content is forbidden by JPMorganChase Information Security policy.
What is ON this page?!?! haha....
-Sling the Boy Wonder
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Rock!...oopsie.
Trad climber
pitch above you
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well sling, it is one of the better bits of climber porn out there. They can't have you drooling on the monitor when yer supposed ta be minding the portfolios or whatever you do there.
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Burns
Trad climber
Arlington, VA
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someone who is familiar with it needs to find the Canoe.
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bringmedeath
climber
la la land
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Just look at the shield headwall burns.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Boy, look at some of those crack lines on the right part of the Half Dome shot. Wonder where the original Salathea route goes??
JL
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ADK
climber
truckee
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those bags are on the triple direct on the traverses between the muir and nose. Way cool!..
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Burns
Trad climber
Arlington, VA
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found it. I was looking too low.
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Dakman
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Check out the guy above the Visor on top of HD. Very cool!!
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roy
Social climber
New Zealand -> Santa Barbara
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Very cool! The heart ropes are in place too!
Cheers, Roy
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Imagine if the El Cap pioneers had these photos. They could have picked out cool lines without using binos.
This could make for a very cool game of "Name that Feature!"
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Dog
climber
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O Man,
This stuff Rocks big time!
Incredible Stuff!
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le_bruce
climber
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I've just given 90 minutes to these pics. Stunning.
Make sure to check the link in this sentence, about midway through the paragraph:
"This resulted in a 3.8 gigapixel, 90,000 pixel-wide image, one of our largest to date."
If you full-zoom into Washington Column, you can see two separate parties on what looks like Astroman - maybe one in the Enduro corner? Can I get a confirmation on that from someone who'd know?
Un-real. Thanks again.
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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This one, when it comes, ought to inspire some new routes on the relatively untouched Throne...
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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supa coo!!!!
thanks pFranzen.
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kevsteele
climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Incredible! Party on the Muir (top of 18th) but empty on the Nose.
Imagine how much fun counting climbers if the shot was taken in June or September rather than early spring.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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Very nice
What did you use ?
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exposeur
Trad climber
santa cruz
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just imagine the where's waldo (or is it wall-do?) possibilities...
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ehanson
Mountain climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Hey, I am one of the co-founders of that site, glad you guys are digging it. Yes, we are planing on re-shooting El Cap next summer w/ a lot more traffic on the wall and in even greater resolution than that one.. I also want to shoot it from different vantages and do overlays on top of the image, which Google Maps allows. Half Dome is also planned as another shoot from North Dome, which should get us a better frontal view. I could really use some help from the community as to laying this out, though, if any of you are interested, shoot me a mail from the site. There's a lot of potential w/ this technique, but I figured you guys would eat it up first! Thanks for spotting the Zodiac guys, missed that one myself! Working on the Throne today, should go live next week..
Best,
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Eric Hanson
http://www.xrez.com
http://www.visuraimaging.com
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bringmedeath
climber
la la land
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I can't get this thing to work. My status bar, just reads javascript... and never loads the popup.
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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2006 - 01:00pm PT
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ehanson-- I'm curious as to what program you're using to stitch everything together. I do a bit of panoramic photography myself, and while I usually just use a few layers in Photoshop (which would be ludicrous in your case) I sometimes use other pano programs that are out there. Is yours a custom bit of software, or off the shelf?
Also: the 3D Maya rendering is spectacular. I just wish it were a bit longer! A "flight" through more of the valley would be great. Are you planning one of these for Zion too?
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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nobody on Sutton's canoe:
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ehanson
Mountain climber
Santa Monica, CA
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JZ, try a different browser, I know some have had trouble, depending on os. If it runs Google Maps it should run ours.. Peter, we use PTGui, which is a deal for a hundred bucks, and does a much better job than Stitcher. It is more technical and not that easy to figure out, but is worth it for best quality and scalability. As for the 3d sequences, those all all just tests (the Half Dome one is sloppy), but I do plan on showing glaciation from Glacier Point next..
thx
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yo
climber
The Eye of the Snail
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Looks like the Surfacing U-boat from that angle.
Simply amazing. I'd love a look at the SE face.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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This website is one of three main news items in today's SuperTopo e-newsletter. Thanks, Chris!
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Rich the Brit
Trad climber
San Ramon, CA
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This is amazing. Now if Chris could get a route overlay built into the image; and a GPS could tell you where you were...
I can hear the brains boiling from the "more beta is bad for the sport" crowd.
I checked some high traffic free-climb routes, e.g. Royal Arches, and I couldn't find anyone (might be one person on the rap). This sure was a quiet day for climbers. When was it taken - I think I will go climbing on that date.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Keep this up, and my question about binoculars will be pretty moot.
Cool site!
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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I count at least two parties on the SouthFace of the Column.
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darshahlu
Trad climber
Irvine, CA
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With overlays? Imagine the possibilities: Super high-tech topos!
Do it!
Darshan
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darshahlu
Trad climber
Irvine, CA
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Shoot VALHALLA (aka ANGEL WINGS) in Sequoia National Park. 17 Mile Approach but that thing is SWEET.
Peace
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le_bruce
climber
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David - I see two as well, but where are they on the route? Is that lower party on the Enduro Corner? Must have been a cold outing. No one on Dinner Ledge, either.
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Niekolaas
Trad climber
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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I see a party of 2 on the 6 th pitch of the South Face, Washington Column, and another climber above that (solo?).
Anyway, great stuff
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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2006 - 03:31pm PT
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90,000 pixels printed at 300dpi (standard for high-end printing) would yield a 25ft. wide image, so there's plenty of resolution in those pictures to cover a big wall.
Now: a 44" x 100ft. roll of paper for an Epson 9800 is going to set you back around $175, not to mention $5,000 for the printer. Figure 4 rolls of paper, and another $300 for ink (wild guess, it's probably quite a bit more-- it's hard to find figures on ink/ft.^2) and you're looking at around $900 plus the cost of the printer, plus the cost of mounting the image onto a backing or *gasp* a frame.
At that price (even bump it up to $2.5k for all expenses) I could actually see some place like REI buying a copy of it to put on a wall of a flagship store.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Eric and co-conspirators,
Fantastic and breathtaking work!
Chicken Skinner/Ken - if you are out there, huge printed images like these are an ABSOLUTE MUST for the Yosemite Climbing Museum walls. I dreamed of this possiblility years ago, as I'm sure others have as well, and now it's possible!
I'm pretty sure there are two climbers nearing the top of North Dome - possibly on Crest Jewel.
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sling512
Trad climber
Chicago
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Here are the North Dome pair:
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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ehanson - check out a topo for setting up shots.. e.g. I think that Basket Dome is a bit closer to Half Dome, and more mid-height with respect to the North-West face and more perpendicular...
...there are lots of interesting visa points that are great to shoot from (like the base of Sentinel Rock) which are scrambles...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Here is a picture of a traditional northwest native (First People's) canoe, under construction. I don't know a lot about the nuances, but I believe it is an ocean going canoe. Not sure which nation it relates to - possibly Haida Gwaii.
Note the resemblance to Steve's canoe on El Cap. Not your standard issue canoe.
There is a similar canoe, carved from jade, in the foyer at Vancouver airport. Two or three metres long, filled with things and creatures relating to First People's creation myths. Well worth a look if you're passing through.
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Rags
Trad climber
Sierra foothills, CA
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YA, this is the best where's Waldo I ever played.
Saw the two on N. dome some days ago. There are three parties on the column three different routes, between two zooms, can you find 'em (not tellin which routes)?
How about the apparent soloist on the Muir, blue bags?
Hard to tell, but could be a party on the Salathe'.
There was another one I can't remember.
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Yo Mighty Hiker-
We may have to rename the canoe, to whatever that craft you have pictured is called. very similar!
I (imaginatively) called the feature "the boat", but when we came down after the FA, I saw Sutton, who asked, "How was the canoe, eh?"
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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That is really amazing. I'd love to see them even closer, but i was just able to retrace pitch by pitch my ascent of the Salathe and it brought back some memories that I haven't had in years. Thank you!!
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ehanson
Mountain climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Peter, we have done just as you conjectured- printed the diving board image at 6' x 18' on a Epson 9800. The material costs were not as much as the custom frame, made from hardwood, stainless, cable, and alum. This is a crappy pic taken from the Natl Assoc of Interpreters show we just did in Albuquerque:
http://www.xrez.com/services/spher/xRez_spher6.html
It was printed as (5) 42" panels edge to edge on black Sintra and laminated. I will be showing it at the APPL show in Sacramento in March. We may sell smaller continuous 3.5'x11' prints if anyone is interested, or of the other images (El Cap, etc). Experiencing the print is amazing. Viewers typically spend 15-20 mins just going from end to end. The pic above is 2 yose rangers who spent 1/2 hour there showing me a lot of the park I had no knowledge of. Nate, great idea on Yosemite Climbing Museum, I'll email Ken Yager right away. I would be happy to get an image up there once it exists..
Thanks for the all the good response guys. Got a killer image of the White Throne and Zion Canyon getting online next week..
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Eric Hanson
http://www.xrez.com
http://www.visuraimaging.com
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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deuce: The picture is of a native (Indian) canoe, from B.C. (Under construction.) With variations, it's pretty much the standard northwest native ocean canoe. Every museum has one, including the big museum of anthropology in Vancouver, etc. Maybe Steve was struck by the resemblance - he's from B.C. The profiles are uncannily similar, and when I saw the zoom in of the feature on El Cap, I immediately thought of a possible origin for the name.
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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sweet pics
i just flew into san jose and caught the valley in the sunrise from a few k feet up
wow. and i mean that...
must be an amazing place to those of you lucky enough to play there regularly...(i'll be there in few months with a new shoulder to break in, if anyone's around...)
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Bear 46
Social climber
Yosemite
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Hey! There I am! See me??
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Jan 21, 2007 - 01:24am PT
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Haven't yet climbed in Zion, but great link to the Yoso stuff on the hi-rez stuff--gets me inspired.
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Jan 21, 2007 - 01:14pm PT
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In the same realm as Birdbeak Spire and the Fang, I had looked at this line in Zion to complete the trilogy:
Now it can be seen without a telescope thanks to this Xrez's fine interactive photo.
If anyone does this line, please let me know. With a young 'un on the way, I doubt I'll get to it anytime soon!
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David Nelson
climber
San Francisco
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Jan 21, 2007 - 07:56pm PT
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Sunday, Jan 21, 4:55 pm: the site seems to be down. Anyone else have this problem?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 15, 2007 - 03:00am PT
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Bump. The link is working.
Part of my project.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Peter,
This photo is actually sharper than the other site's photo but the perspective is way off. As you look up to the top of El Cap, the distortion of the photo causes it to loose value of a close up photo.
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bmacd
Trad climber
100% Canadian
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I've been using PTGui Pro for my own home brew gigapixal imaging of the Squamish Chief. It does require a lot of computing horsepower to generate the montage, but once rendered the images provide endless rainy day entertainment scoping lines
A motorized head would be nice for shooting
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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What would be stellar is a high rez photos with everything that has ever been climbed on it as a color coded line.
Then the *last* unclimbed feature of El Cap could finally be found...
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Or you could use the xRez image to make a geologic map with pretty colors...
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Or you could make a poster and hang it on your wall...
DMT – that’s what we’re working on. I’ll post more at some point. It’s a really fun project!
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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So beautiful its scary. As a test of how good this is zoomed in and could clearly see the touron firing squad on top of Glacier Point.
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Just when you thought that El Cap is simply a huge chunk of granite with some diorite in the middle, technology shows its beautiful face. And its complexity.
Click on image:
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