William Storage and Laura Maish 
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This image set was produced using the Photoshop HD View Export plug-in made by Microsoft Live Labs. We developed the viewer starting with Silverlight source code published by Microsoft.

Click the image below for the panoramic image viewer. The original image is 18,000 by 7200 pixels, stitched from 18 photos taken on San Francisco's Embarcadero. We shot each with a Canon 5D camera and a Canon 35mm lens at f/6.3 and 2 seconds at ISO 200. The Silverlight viewer progressively loads image files of increasing detail as you zoom and pan with the viewer. If you view every spot in this image at maximum resolution, you will be downloading 2800 jpeg files into your computer's internet file cache.

Use your mouse wheel or the provided buttons to zoom in and out on the HD View image. the buttons will disappear to allow an unobstructed, black-background view of the image, but they'll reappear if you move the cursor over them. Depending on your internet connection, it may take a while for the image to become clear after panning or zooming.