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Who is watching who ?

Posted on March 7, 2009 by whichendbites

This link is to a photo from the 2009 US Presidential Inauguration.

In it, you will be able to see IN FOCUS the face of each individual in the crowd. 

You can scan, double click and zoom to any section of the crowd for a closer, better look.  If you wait just a few seconds the focus adjusts to clear detail.  The picture was taken with a robotic camera at 1,474 mega-pixels. Now that is a lot of pixels for any camera.

Makes you wonder who’s watching us right now.

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8 Responses

  1. Piper, on March 8, 2009 at 7:46 am said:

    That is seriously freaky. I can almost read the security chaps ID badges……

  3. Tony F, on March 8, 2009 at 1:20 pm said:

    I sometimes wonder why our ‘Leaders’ want us all to be able to access broad band in our homes? And why TV is going digital…Digital is easy to configure to transmit Data as well as receive……

    Just ‘cos I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they are not out to get me…

  4. Fee, on March 9, 2009 at 1:30 pm said:

    That’s seriously scary. And to think I struggle to take a decent picture with a bog-standard camera.

  5. Malc, on March 10, 2009 at 1:22 pm said:

    If you look at the rows behind and along to the right from Clinton, there’s a bit where there’s been some “editing” – so how trustworthy are these – can people be put in as well as taken out?

  6. Frank, on March 11, 2009 at 3:27 pm said:

    The ‘editing’ is clearly where sections of the pan have been stiched together – you can see similar issues horizontally along the frame at that point. What surprises me is that they do not appear to have obscured the location of the White House security cameras

  8. Frost, on March 14, 2009 at 2:08 am said:

    What is truly scary is that it was not taken with top secret government technology. It is a bog-standard point and shoot digital camera plonked on top of a robotic arm which points the camera in the right places and pushes the button…the cost? $318.99 plus postage and handling…if this is ‘normal’ technlogy, then what does the government have?

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