Super high res pano.

For a long time I've been looking for a way to show my super high resolution panoramic photography online. These massive images are huge files and would bring just about any web browser to its knees, and would take a long time to download.

I once tried to use the Google Maps interface for one image, but I found that to be too slow, unreliable and difficult to generate.

Recently, however, I've found a nifty little flash app called "Zoomify", which is available free as its basic version. This does everything I need, so with a bit of tweaking I managed to get the output looking how I liked, and inserted it into the typical panorama template for my site. You can click the image below to see the fifty-five megapixel panorama of the view from the top of the Queenstown, New Zealand chairlift.

Don't worry, it's dial-up friendly. Read the line at the bottom of the page to see how to navigate the image.


If anyone is interested in learning how to do this with their own images, you can get the software at the Zoomify web page. Feel free to look at the source code of the linked page to see how I integrated it into my template.