We took up a new type of photography. It is called “Gigapan” and involves taking very high resolution images. The way we do this is by taking hundreds of images of an area and then stitching those together into one large image. We use a special device/robot that takes all the photos in such a way so they all stitch together nicely.

The most difficult part of the process is setting up the camera to take the gigapan. In order to get a good result, you need to set everything manually: timing, aperture, focus, whitebalance, etc. Depth of Field also becomes a huge concern as you want to make sure everything in the picture is sharp.

Anyway, I don’t want to bore your with the technical details, but I thought you might enjoy one of our Gigapans. We took this one a few weeks ago on basically a “perfect day” in Zug. It was sunny and very clear and we went up the little mountain next to Zug, called Zugerberg to get a good view of the city of Zug. In this view, you see Zugerlake, Zug, Cham, Baar, Steinhausen and the many surrounding villages around Zug.

You can zoom in and out of the gigapan and look at many details within the photo. You can also click on some of the “snapshots” underneath if you want to go directly to one of the selected details within the photo. Click here ot on the photo to open up the gigapan in a new window. Enjoy exploring Zug!