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This _NY Times_ piece had been noted on another list today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/us/22panorama.html . There is a nice
interactive display. From Steven Rosen's article:
As part of the project, the library has also installed two giant
touch screens that use digital microscopy to zoom in on
high-resolution images from the entire two-mile stretch of
riverfront. The Eastman House, with the aid of a Getty Foundation
grant, bought equipment to magnify the panorama's imagery by 16
times. A few individual zooms can be magnified 32 times.
As a result, objects never before easily seen --- even by the two
photographers, who were across the Ohio River in Newport, Ky. ---
are becoming clear to the human eye: like those bloomers, or the
time on a church clock tower. And searching for them is like
entering a kind of time-machine version of Google Earth. (The
library will also put a zoomable version on its Web site.)
Joel
Kovarsky
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