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Oct 22, 2010

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

36 ultra hi-res photos taken with two Hasselblad cameras at this year's Glastonbury Festivalin 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 most people ever tagged in an online photo. No idea what the previous record-holder for this would've been, but I imagine this is a new entry to the book.

The two Hasselblad H4D-50 cameras used cost around $30,000 each, and have 50MP sensors which resulted in the 36 photos taken in under a minute flat, and later stitched together for a photo hi-res enough for people to zoom in on every single individual, to search for themselves and friends. I wonder how many girlfriends discovered their boyfriends copping off with someone in a cider-fuelled frenzy behind their back from this photo?

44 comments:

  1. ReggaeMasterOctober 22, 2010 at 7:32 AM

    Haha, crazy, 70.000 tags...

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  2. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 7:38 AM

    cool

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  3. NickOctober 22, 2010 at 7:43 AM

    that reminds me college party pictures on facebook lol

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  4. MASSOctober 22, 2010 at 8:14 AM

    I'd love to know what material their sensors are made of.

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  5. DaniniPaniniOctober 22, 2010 at 8:16 AM

    Oh cool!

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  6. CopyboyOctober 22, 2010 at 8:23 AM

    That is truly amazing!!!!

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  7. UnlogicOctober 22, 2010 at 8:37 AM

    hahahahaha, some people have too much free time :D :D

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  8. fuckkoOctober 22, 2010 at 8:45 AM

    i think i could break this..

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  9. Paladin-BiasOctober 22, 2010 at 8:49 AM

    that is hilarious

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  10. level85nerdOctober 22, 2010 at 9:14 AM

    crazy so much tags :oo

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  11. ChurapotatochipsOctober 22, 2010 at 9:38 AM

    wow that's cool

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  12. mastajonOctober 22, 2010 at 9:48 AM

    That's a pretty sweet Guinness record.

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  13. razortekOctober 22, 2010 at 10:10 AM

    lol so useless :DDD

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  14. DonkoteOctober 22, 2010 at 10:24 AM

    haha that's pretty cool

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  15. happybuffetOctober 22, 2010 at 10:25 AM

    nice, that's pretty sick

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  16. banonOctober 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM

    this is pretty awesome. but damn that file is huge...

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  17. AppleloveOctober 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM

    And I still don't have a facebook page.

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  18. honkhonkptOctober 22, 2010 at 10:31 AM

    That's kind of an obscure record to break haha. I wonder if everyone that's tagged will get their names in the book!

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  19. RoodNverseOctober 22, 2010 at 10:32 AM

    hmm thats cool and very hi-res lol

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  20. ChrisOctober 22, 2010 at 10:43 AM

    I think I see myself in that photo ...

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  21. Shelby FoxOctober 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM

    Lol @ dirty revellers

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  22. AllenOctober 22, 2010 at 11:04 AM

    i wonder how they tagged off of the main facebook site..

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  23. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 11:05 AM

    Wow, 1.3 Gigapixel images. I wonder how big the filesizes must be. Next thing you know, theyll have it in 3D versions. ;)
    djnb

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  24. Light Weight Baby!October 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM

    wow, that is crazy

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  25. Stav88osOctober 22, 2010 at 11:10 AM

    Cool Story Bro!;)

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  26. iMoneiOctober 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM

    source? i want the whole pic

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  27. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM

    i want those cameras!

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  28. swizzforOctober 22, 2010 at 11:23 AM

    thats crazy!

    i wish i was there

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  29. LoneIslanderOctober 22, 2010 at 11:28 AM

    Dam...........

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  30. AdPlusCommunicationsOctober 22, 2010 at 11:56 AM

    holy crap that's awesome, GIGAPIXEL you said? damn thats one HUGE picture.

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  31. IshuOctober 22, 2010 at 12:11 PM

    SO COOL idea!!!! lol!!!! xD

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  32. NarwhalMindedOctober 22, 2010 at 12:20 PM

    That is NUTS!

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  33. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 12:22 PM

    O wow that's crazeh! :D

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  34. RezdenOctober 22, 2010 at 12:31 PM

    lol, that's crazy. I'm sure there will be more.

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  35. Randall.October 22, 2010 at 12:36 PM

    Not the greatest achievement - I doubt anyone's even bothered to try this record before.

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  36. newdaysofgloryOctober 22, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    so when are the rest going to show them selves

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  37. UnknownOctober 22, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    Wow, just wow.

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  38. dhgdsfghOctober 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM

    amazing !

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  39. befashionistic.blogspot.com/October 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM

    weird record

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  40. Touch and FeelOctober 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM

    Crazy!

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  41. mirkOctober 22, 2010 at 11:42 PM

    What a useless achievement.

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  42. Joel C AnatoliOctober 23, 2010 at 11:28 AM

    Amazing!

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  43. IOnVashOctober 23, 2010 at 2:19 PM

    LOL. That must have taken forever but I'm sure it will be beat sometime. Facebook users have way too much time on there hands.

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  44. UnknownOctober 24, 2010 at 11:03 AM

    That's huge! I wonder how they did it, did they tell them not to move?

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