Its a foreign site but these images hold unbelievable detail, click on gallerys, choose a theme then select a picture, at the bottom is the zoom slider, must have took a shit load of proccessing
http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/

you can read the newspapers in this one!!!
http://www.hyper-photo.com/zoom/multiples/dernouvelles/

 

That's well cool, the images must be vector based, hence why you don't get any image distortion when you zoom in.

Big-Dan.

 

another name for it is 'gigapan'. heres another site. They mount a normal digital camera in a motorised tripod and it takes aload of zoomed in photos. U can buy on the net.
http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15374

 

i can see that its cool, but cant really think why its needed

 

Very clever