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Cleanning house - Selling my fisheyes and other stuff>

2012-02-08T14:03:11Z

Good morning all

After using my new canon 8-15mm lens I decided to sell some old stuff that this lens replaces.

Here are the eBay pages.

Sunex 5.6 mm lens
tinyurl.com/Sunex5-6mm

Nodal Ninja Ring Clamp for sigma 8mm f3.5
tinyurl.com/nnRingSigma

and the lens - Sigma 8mm
tinyurl.com/Sigma8mm

360 precision adjuste Giga with a Nodal Ninja RD16 rotator
tinyurl.com/360AdjustGIGA

Nodal Ninja Ring Clamp for Canon 15mm Fisheye
tinyurl.com/nnRingCanon

and the lens - Canon 15mm f2.8
tinyurl.com/Canon15mm

Thanks.

Jim

Re: Convert 360º video to VT Video Software?>

2012-02-08T05:18:47Z

You can find a player here:

www.ryubin.com/panolab/panoflash/download.html

Re: ladybug2 VS ladybug3>

2012-02-08T05:13:53Z

Ladybug2 : Smaller runs in 30 fps, a good value for money.

Ladybug3 : Some paralax problem (for closer shooting) , best picture quality.

Re: ladybug 2>

2012-02-08T05:09:53Z

PC only, the SDK is full working and come with the camera....great product.

LadyBug 2 for sale>

2012-02-08T05:04:09Z

Hi everyone,

I have a camera LADYBUG "2" 360 Video Caméra (manufactured by Point Grey for sale). We thought to do the update to the Ladybug 3 (the next step for me).

It is still under warranty until June 2012 and was used not more than 10 times.

Hi asking $ 8000 Canadian for it. As a bonus we leave with an engineered removable cap (1000$ value) for attaching the camera on a profesional tripod and hooks that add posibility to attach up to 3 safety chains on it.

see picture here:

PS: if by chance someone had a Ladybug 3 for sale I would be buyer.

thanks,
Louis

Re: King Pano head>

2012-02-08T04:28:28Z

Bruce,

The 303 system's were bypassed long ago. They have not been updated for 15 years or so?

360 Precision, Nodal Ninja, RRS (really right stuff). and a few others have long ago left Manfrotto's 303 heads in the dust.

I sold mine, both 303 plus and 303 SPH versions long ago. Your staff should do the same and look to a updatd system of your choice.

cheers,

Robert

Re: Canadian Photographers Needed>

2012-02-08T04:07:19Z

Bruce,

Why be so defensive in your reply? I was simply asking a question of interest to your target market?

Most all photographer's have always been interested in work. But at what rate?

What and how do you pay for what is a fundamental question of any good commercial photographer. Without knowing that, you might as well be working for free.

So, again, what's the basic's here?

cheers,

Robert

Re: What Metering Setting?>

2012-02-08T00:20:13Z

Philippe,

Judy-A is one of those who knows far more than I! I told you someone else would come to the rescue of your question!

Laddie

Re: Straightening the straight lines in ptgui>

2012-02-07T18:09:26Z

Nick, I would guess that most of the stitching problems can probably be eliminated by proper use of PTGui. Any remaining alignment errors could easily be dealt with in Photoshop, working with extracted rectilinear views. The transform tools offer all the facilities needed. But it's impossible to be sure without having a full set of images to investigate. We'll have to wait and see how Sonic fares with the 16mm Zenitar lens.

John

Re: Samyang/Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 for NEX coming in March. You asked for pictures>

2012-02-07T17:32:05Z

Nick Fan said:
DemonDuck said:
And I'd do it myself if I had the tools and a place to set them up. But this is all moot because Nick will never do this and I don't have the tools.

I told you I had been working on that adapter plate for you.

Nick

I'm ready to go! Got all my equipment and some cash all at the same time.

Any word on a possible cable shutter release adapter?

Pano for critique>

2012-01-14T16:51:19Z

I think this is my best pano so far, however, I'd appreciate feedback on improvements that could be made, both in processing and if I was to re-shoot the pano.

Is it too dark? Should I clone out the tripod leg holes in the mud? Any other suggestions?

www.360cities.net/image/sunset-puddle-at-farndon-...

To take the pano I used the tripod without extending the legs to get the camera low enough to capture the afterglow reflection in the puddle. I bracketed ±1EV. Stitched and exposure fused in PTGUI, then adjusted in PS CS5.

The ground is using the +1EV image, with a curve applied to brighten it slightly. The sky is using the exposure fused image with the -1EV image used to bring back some colour into the brightest part, which was blown out on the exposure fused image.

I did try applying a curve to brighten the whole image, but this lost the contrast between the bright afterglow and the rest of the sky.

Thanks for any suggestions

Dave

Re: Virtual reality panoramas together with embedded video>

2012-01-15T23:20:07Z

FlashStudio said:
www.multipla.tv/ (Check out the demo)

Pessimism and trolling aside, has anyone ideas on how to do this? I've tried doing a 6-around panorama using stills from 6 videos, stitching, then substituting one source image for stills from a moving video in the first position. I can't see how I'd align the result (the overlay is a video, but it just has one frame):

dl.dropbox.com/u/734027/partialtemp/video-partial...

Any ideas welcome

Virtual Tour in Grândola, Portugal>

2012-01-19T00:01:23Z

Hello everbody!

I finished a virtual tour made in an old cork farm that was converted to a hotel near the little town Grândola, Portugal. Some shot's would have been better in HDR but as this was more of an spontaneous project I didn't make the effort:

www.tilmanbremer.de/2012/01/virtual-tour-of-the-h...

Comments are welcome!

The tour is powered by the free + open source SaladoPlayer. Maybe this tour is an impulse for somebody here to start supporting this project. In my opinion, it's well worth it. That's why I am constantly out there advertising .

Re: Two Panos of a Waterfalls>

2012-01-24T01:09:48Z

Does anyone notice the over exposed sky?

Re: Trying to enhance the interactivity>

2012-01-24T18:41:45Z

Thanks for your reply. I understand that the technique can be used in much more useful way. I wanted to try myself at doing this work. Well, you're absolutely right about lot of pain =).
Next time i will use this trick more wisely.