spyboy
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My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 18:07 GMT
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These are definitely not complete, these are just my first tests with my new gear.
I need to come up with a way to take the nadir to hide the pan/tilt equipment under my camera (also need to move the receiver box so it's not in the shot)
Shot 3 is with the mast fully extended to 49 feet. It was leaning way over to one side, I was nervous! I need to add some guy wires to the rig for that height, but at lower heights (25-35 feet) it seems pretty stable.
www.kmembrydesign.com/masttest.html
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photo41
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 18:23 GMT
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hi spyboy,
wow impressive... anchors would ease the nerves somehow.
Just wondering it seems to me there is much coverage at the nadir with the head. while details at earth level could be added with no problem later, what about the roof, there are probably some technical details that could prevent cloning.
regards,
Valentin
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Doug Aurand
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 18:30 GMT
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Spyboy
Very nice.
Are you sharing what the equipment set up is?
Doug Aurand
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gus
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 18:57 GMT
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Nice pano, personally I would have moved the setup 50 m away from the house, which would have given a much nicer view of the property. Thats assuming you wanted the show the property off in the first place....
gus
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spyboy
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 0:34 GMT
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Gus,
The shots were in my driveway, and that was the only level spot, plus I couldn't see the laptop screen outside, so I wanted to be near the house so I could make adjustments and then go outside and see how the mast was doing.
For real shots, yes, I would have to be quite a ways from the subject I wanted to shoot.
Kirk
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spyboy
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 0:37 GMT
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The mast is a Clark Mast SQT15
camera is a Canon 40D with WFT-E3A wireless adapter module.
pan/tilt head is a Bescor MP-360 (modified to be 360 instead of the normal 180) with a wireless kit added.
I could have gone the wired route, but I thought wireless would be much easier.
The reason I went with a Canon 40D (over my old Canon Rebel XT) is that the 40D has "live view" so I can view a live feed (like video) on the laptop as I rotate around.
I was going to get a Zigview for my XT, but that was $500 and I felt it was putting money into obsolete equipment (the XT) so instead I upgraded to the 40D, but it is a much heavier camera, especially with the wireless grip on it.
I've also built a rig for shooting car interior panos, so the pan/tilt and wireless will come in handy for that as well.
Kirk
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Bob Stone
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 1:55 GMT
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Spyboy, you might consider raising the camera up away from the top of the pole to reduce the footprint.
You could cut it in half or better by ditching the Bescore and using a NN3II instead. Just turn the mast by hand. That's what I did with good results.
Of course I'm assuming you are shooting with a good fisheye like Sigma 8mm 3.5. I could be wrong but I think you should need 5-6 shots around with the 40D & 8mm??? Someone help me there...
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spyboy
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 2:38 GMT
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The black box in my shots is the pan/tilt remote box (it's bulky)
I velcro'd it to the side of the pant/tilt, not realizing how it would show up in the shot.
I opened the box, there's a big circuit board, but I think I can transplant it into a slightly smaller box (and one that can hold the 8 AAA's that power it) I also want to reduce the length of the cable between the box and the pan/tilt, right now it's about 15 feet long (didn't measure it but it's ridiculous)
As for rotating the mast itself, can't do it, it's bolted to my truck, so there's no way to rotate it around (that I know of)
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Macro
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 5:21 GMT
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Wow, you're at tree-top level with shot 3, nice work.
Has the mailman found your box yet? 
David
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spyboy
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 12:06 GMT
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yup, in the trees and my truck was parked down back at the house, so it was in a low spot (garage door is under the first floor)
Kirk
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BerndD
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gus
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spyboy
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 2 Jun 2008 at 13:35 GMT
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BerndD,
Great shots! If you use DevalVR (or was it the shockwave pano player) you can have animation in your pano (their example had a hovercraft coming up onto a beach)
Kirk
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Doug Aurand
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 2 Jun 2008 at 14:38 GMT
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Spyboy
How did you modify the Bescor to do a 360° turn instead of 180°
One easy way to reduce the size of the panhead & other equipment under the camera would be to add a short extension from the top of the Bescor to the camera. A foot or so would significantly reduce the size of the panhead.
Doug Aurand
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spyboy
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Re: My first aerial (mast) pano
Posted: 2 Jun 2008 at 22:00 GMT
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I bought it as a MP-360, so it was already modified.
As for the footprint in the nadir, I think I just have to hang all the stuff behind the camera.
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