There are lots of little villages where there are a lot of people looking up at you. Many of them are waving as well. You can tell by their arm position on their shadows. I think it is so cool that it seems that the highest resolution that we now have is all these little spots in Africa. I am finding them so much more interesting to look at than the endless block after endless block of essentially the same thing in our high-res western cities.
Quote: Have you ever seen somebody in GE who is really looking at the camera like this ?
Nope, and that might be due to the fact that before these images were taken, the camera was in a satellite hundreds of miles up or an aircraft about 18,000 ft above the crowds, and no one knew they were being photographed. Or, if by some freak of coincidence, someone was actually looking up, the resolution was not high enough to even distinguish human beings from rose bushes. The Megaflyover photos were taken within a couple thousand feet of the ground (some much lower), from a noisy airplane, far away from the urban areas where aircraft are a daily sight.
Quote: The new Megaflyover pictures in Africa are amazing!
My elevation readout says 3785 ft yet I can clearly see two people's faces who are looking at the camera. One is an adult male with a white shirt and one looks like a teenager.
So how is the elevation actually calculated 'cause a 3000 plus feet, peoples features are not normally visible.
-------------------- Info in the sig.....onlyyou can see it!!!!!!
If you look at the two elevations, (Left "Elev" = 3757 or there about, that is the Ground Elevation and the Right "Eye Alt = 3793 or there about, is where you have placed the virtual camera.) they differ by about 36 feet... I am pretty sure you can see faces and shirts from 40 feet... But neither of thoses is the altitude of the camera. Did anyone ever explain Zoom or Telephoto lenses? You know some of the images in Google Earth were taken from satellites hundreds of miles above the earth... and you can see cars and swimming pools and everything except the Great wall of China.
I believe this picture was actually taken from less than 500 feet above the ground.
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