EarthCam’s line starts at $1,900 for a time-lapse camera with solar power and goes up from there. The GigapixelCam X80 is $24,995 as fitted, but if a client does not need a robotic version, those are less expensive. In a more “boring” measurement, he says it comes out to 136 feet wide at 300 DPI. “If you printed this photo out, it would be the length of 272 New York hot dogs end to end,” Cury says, laughing. Click to view the fully interactive 120 gigapixel photo. While the X80 was originally built to capture 80 gigapixel photos, EarthCam stretched the device to the limits of its capabilities in this particular image, which Cury says is actually 120 gigapixels. While the well-known Sony camera lives in the housing and is the core of the imaging capabilities, Cury was adamant that making the device was more than just throwing a camera in a weatherproof housing, but the culmination of a decade of experience in both hardware and software for this extremely specialized purpose. The X80 is the company’s latest product that combines its specialized housing and computing with a Sony a7R IV and, in the case of the New York gigapixel image, the 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G E-mount lens. Because of the challenging environments that EarthCam clients demand, having a fully robotic solution on a solidly-mounted housing is the only way to successfully operate a camera over time. “There is a narrow group of amazing clients who wants the best, the highest quality they can be,” Cury continues.
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