This photo of the new Bentley Mulsanne is 53.1 billion pixels large

When British luxury car company Bentley unveiled their new Mulsanne Extended Wheelbase luxury car, they clearly decided to go large while simultaneously focusing on the details. To promote the car the company created a photo of the car speeding across San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and did so using a method that enables capturing massive detail--53.1 billion pixels of detail. That’s over 3,300 times the size of a typical 16MP smartphone camera photo.

The photographic method was actually pioneered by NASA and is used on the Mars rover to create large panoramas comprising hundreds of stitched images. This Bentley photo used about 700 individual images that went into creating a massive composite image, where the user can actually zoom in from a viewpoint located about 700 meters away, down to the car, all the way down to the embroidered Bentley ‘winged’ logo on the passenger seat, which is incidentally comprised of 4,500 individual stitches.

The experience is on the Bentley website (thankfully, as we’d not able to host such a large JPEG file!) Check it out here.