In2white is a 365-Gigapixel Panorama of Mont Blanc, shot with a Canon EOS 70D

Italian photographer Filippo Blengini contacted us to share an amazing project he led and contributed to realise. In2white, the project’s name, produced the largest panoramic photo ever made.

The team led by Filippo Blengini spent 2 weeks on 3.500 meters (around 11.500 ft) to shot 70,000 photos of the Mont Blanc (Europe’s highest mountain), for a total of 35 hours (most of the time at -10 degree Celsius). The 365 gigapixel, high resolution photo can be viewed (and zoomed in) here. Can you spot the climbers?

The project was realised in 2014. The team then spent around 2 months for post-processing the 46 terabytes of footage they have shot. You may wonder what gear they used: a Canon EOS 70D, a Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 II IS, and a Canon Extender 2X III.

Filippo and his team mates describe the concept:

How to celebrate Her Majesty the Mont Blanc? We just wished to represent it as it shows to our eyes : major beauty, astonishing magnitude, pure elation.

We were brave, crazy and ambitious enough to think about a gigapanoramic picture, to seize every single detail of the mountain. We are Filippo and Alessandra, passionate of mountain, beauty and photography: here’s our concept, our tribute to the Mont Blanc.

But we were not alone in this challenge: we built a Team of dreamers and passionates from all over the World, that shared with enthusiasm our same vision and embraced our project.

Below you can watch a short video about the making of the 365-Gigapixel panorama photo.

[via Filippo Blengini via In2white]

Notice to our readers – working on site [Update]

Update: it’s done. Hope everything works fine for you.

Hi all, just a short post to tell you that I am working on a new layout for Canon Watch, along with some fine-tuning and bug fixing.

I apologise for any inconvenience you may encounter. I am trying to keep things as smooth as possible but some downtime and maybe a quirk or another (which I missed) may show up.

Thanks for your understanding!

Steve

A ‘Walking Dead’ LEGO Stop-Motion Animated Short Made Using a Canon Rebel T3

Wonderful little video made with a simple Canon Rebel T3/EOS 1100D by artist MonsieurCaron.

What happen when Daryl Dixon see some smoke in the forest ? Will he investigate it ? Is there any walkers over there ? This short LEGO brickfilm use the very rare Zombie Hunter Enthusiast minifigure made with genuine LEGO bricks by Citizen Brick as well as custom zombies head and a collection of more than 250 000 LEGO bricks. It’s not really a Walking Dead story, more of an homage to Norman Reedus character and the zombie genre.

MonsieurCaron shot over 3000 pictures, and spent a month to build, film, and edit the whole stuff. The result is awesome. There are 15 images per second! Congrats!

Canon Rebel T3/EOS 1100D price check: B&H Photo, Adorama, Amazon USA, Amazon Canada, Canon Canada, Canon USA

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[via Laughingsquid]

Canon Europe Cash-Back on EOS 7D2, M3, 750D, 760D bundles (up to €300, 5DS and 5DS R listed but not yet available)

Thanks Andrea for the tip!

All (or at least most) European Canon subsidiaries started a cash-back program on select DSLR and lens bundles lasting from April 23 to July 31. Cash-back goes up to €300. Sorry for being late on this. This cash-back program appears to have little to do with Canon UK’s program. Edit: Thanks lw for pointing me to Canon UK.

The listed sites offer the cash-back program for the Canon EOS 7D Mark II, EOS M3, and EOS 750D and 760D. Some of the sites have the EOS 5D Mark III and the EOS 5DS and EOS 5DS R also listed for the program but not available for the time being. See terms and conditions in your language and for your country:

More European Canon sites are listed at Canon Europe.

Canon’s new Nifty-Fifty, the EF 50mm f/1.8 STM is in stock and ready to ship

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Canon didn’t waste time to ship their new EF 50mm f/1.8 STM lens (announcement). All major resellers have the lens in stock and ready to ship. The EF 50mm f/1.8 STM sells for $125 at Amazon | B&H Photo | Adorama | DigitalRev (ships world-wide).

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM availability check for your country: B&H Photo, Adorama, Amazon USA, Amazon Canada, Canon Canada, Canon USA.

EF 50mm f/1.8 STM specifications (taken from Adorama’s product page):

  • Compact, Lightweight Fixed Focal Length Lens: ideal for everyday photos, and with a large f/1.8 aperture, a perfect lens for low-light photography and creative background blur.
  • 80mm effective focal-length: when attached to an APS-C camera optimal for portraits and photos of fast moving subjects such as children and pets.
  • A stepping motor (Gear-type STM): supports the Movie Servo AF function in providing smooth and quiet continuous AF during video recording, as well as when shooting photos.
  • Improved exterior design: includes new focus ring placement making it the most compact Canon 50mm lens.
  • Metal mount: helps provide stability and ruggedness.
  • Optimized lens placement and coatings: help deliver outstanding color balance, while minimizing ghosting and flare.
  • Circular aperture (7 blades): helps deliver beautiful, soft backgrounds. h
  • Minimum focusing distance: of 14in (0.35m); maximum magnification of 0.21x