Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch

(image via Rijksmuseum)

Check out this new high-resolution image of Rembrandt’s 1642 painting The Night Watch.

The process behind this image required both new technology and incredible precision, leaving very little room for error. I can almost hear a respectable and reserved sigh of delight from art conservationists across the globe.

The new high-resolution image of The Night Watch represents a major advance in the state of the art for imaging paintings, setting records for both the resolution and the total size of the image. The sampling resolution is 5 µm (0.005 mm), meaning that each pixel covers an area of the painting that is smaller than a human red blood cell. Given the large size of The Night Watch, this results in a truly enormous image: it’s 925,000 by 775,000 pixels – 717 gigapixels – with a file size of 5.6 TB!

Read more about it directly from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.

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