Using your average joe camera, this software promises to generate a billion pixel image. Called as the Gigapan, the system uses a robot mounted on a tripod to command a normal camera to take several hundred separate photographs of a single scene ?each at a slightly different angle.

The individual photographs are then stitched together by software on the owner's computer ?much as amateurs have attempted to do for years by after taking several pictures of a wide landscape, only with more impressive results.

The technique promises to change the face of amateur photography forever particularly since expensive equipment is not required for generating such spectacular results any more. Panaromic images such as the one created by Gigapan would previously have required equipment costing up to 40,000$ USD to create.

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