The Italian group HAL9000 that specializes in art restorationa and preservation has used a Nikon D2X to create an ultra-high resolution composite of an Italian fresco. The 9.85 Gigapixel final photo, which is viewable online at full resolution, represents the ceiling of a church in Rome. This is a stunning example of the use of stitching to create photos with incredible detail.

 Some technical data:

• A total of 1188 frames
• Lens: Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D ED AF VR used @ 400mm for all frames)
• Clauss Rodeon VR Head
• The camera was set to NEF+JPEG; the NEFs were processed to 16-bit TIFFs through Capture NX.
• Final image: 149,307 pixels x 65,984 pixels.
• Processing on a four AMD Opteron 885 dual core processors computer with 16GB of RAM.