[tkp]

Had some success with this amateur setup to get a higher resolution image from multiple Nikon D90 photos :

- take multiple zoomed-in low DOF overlapping photos, with fixed settings, covering the artwork from a tripod, only rotating the camera

- stitch with Hugin[1] and export undistorted UHD photo

- split the it into tiles according to your viewer's format with ImageMagick

- view with a tile viewer. OpenSeaDragon[2] is smooth and well suited for UHD images, but any can be adapted/used, for example leaflet[3].

Would love to hear about other workflows !

The Bosch websites seems to use Micrio[4] for the UHD viewing and storytelling.

[1] http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://openseadragon.github.io/

[3] https://leafletjs.com

[4] https://micr.io/

[moron4hire]

You should prefer to translate the image rather than rotate the camera. Rotation creates images that need to be spherically reprojected to get the rectangular image back out again. You end up losing resolution at the edges of the image, because they are further away from the camera than the center.