Michael Kanellos (Staff Writer, CNET News.com) wrote:

Michael Cohen, a scientist at Microsoft Research, is trying to create a photo this summer that will contain 10 billion pixels.

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+pictures+ … tml?tag=nl

"[..] compensating for changes in the position of the sun, the movement of clouds and other environmental factors during the time it took to take all of the photos [..] 800 photos taken in an hour and a half [..] lighting and different exposure conditions [..] are neutralized so that it looks like the entire image was captured at a single moment [..]"