Over 7,000 People Tagged in One Facebook Photo Wins a Guinness World Record [Photography]

36 ultra hi-res photos fascinated with two Hasselblad cameras at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in England were stitched together to create a 1.3-gigapixel image. Of the 70,000 people captured, over 7,000 dirty revellers have tagged themselves on Facebook.

This has awarded the pictured, created by mobile network Orange, a Guinness World Record for the general public ever tagged in a web-based photo. No idea what the previous record-holder for this may’ve been, but I imagine it is a new entry to the book.

The two Hasselblad H4D-50 cameras used cost around $30,000 each, and have 50MP sensors which led to the 36 photos taken in under a minute flat, and later stitched together for a photo hi-res enough for folks to zoom in on every single individual, to look for themselves and friends. I ponder what percentage girlfriends discovered their boyfriends copping off with someone in a cider-fuelled frenzy behind their back from this photo? [ Glastotag via Orange ]

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