Petals on a wet, black bough

And if you think that this is an example of an image that is solid enough to be evidential, just look at the person 3 up and 1 to the left, (approx 11 O’Clock) of Barbara Bush and think again. There’s another example: the bearded lady in the blue scarf and the invisible man wearing a hat, approximately 12 O’Clock and four rows back from George “Dubya” Bush. Without scrutiny, such compositions may fool jurors, but they aren’t necessarily reliable.
And doesn’t it make George W. Bush seem as though he’s texting on his phone, (it’s actually the post behind him)? Lucky he wasn’t wiping his nose in a car in Scotland or he might have been issued with a FPN.
Just shows the tricks that those pesky cameras can play on peoples’ eyes.

Hi there
I consider myself a devout supporter to the cause . . . but was a little bemused by this ‘Obama inauguration photo piece’ – this article (or what is implied at least) to anyone engaged in the current state of photography – a community only too aware of the erosion of civil liberties – (so a potential BBW audience) . . . is almost embarrassing !
“This week the true potential of CCTV has been brought into clearer focus (if you’ll excuse the pun) with the discovery of an image of Obama’s inauguration, in which every face for many hundreds of metres can be picked out individually.”
Marking out the commonplace as nefarious only lends ammunition to those who would label you as ‘paranoid’ or ‘overly dramatic’ and colours your whole campaign unfairly.
It is a series of standard photographs that have been ‘stitched together’ – that is all.
It has not been ‘discovered’ (or unearthed or revealed or leaked.) It is freely available on the internet.
There is no new technology here that you yourself cannot go out and buy in Dixon’s tomorrow (I believe it was taken on the original Canon 5D).
This is not the first photograph of this kind (resolution wise) – it has been done for decades. You could have made this image, with the same resolution, one hundred years ago. In fact, people did !! (Paul Jaqueia et al) !!
This is not the ‘true potential of CCTV’ – CCTV is stuck at 1440×1080@25p (more commonly a mere 720×576@50i) and will be stuck below this limit for some time to come, even if the budgets skyrocketed over the next few years, there is no nascent video standard waiting to usurp 11440×1080@25p.
The article gives the impression that you have just grabbed at something and shoehorned it into an agenda.
Lee.