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spyboy

Posts: 240
Location: New Hampton, NH, United States
Registered: 7 Oct 2006
Commercial gigapan head
Posted: 6 Feb 2007 at 13:45 GMT
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A few researchers at Carnegie Melon are going to be releasing an inexpensive (supposedly ~$200 US) gigapixel panoramic head in March.

They're even talking about one that will do timelapse, and software that would allow you to zoom into a gigapixel image, find something say a birds nest, and then go back in time to watch it being built.

www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/commercial_gigapan.html
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Dave Kennard

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Location: United Kingdom
Registered: 26 Mar 2006
Re: Commercial gigapan head
Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 12:48 GMT
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I signed up for their email after seeing this post when you originally posted it, and have just today received an email from them. It seems that it is only designed for compact cameras, probably not of interest to me at the moment.
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Tri3

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Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Registered: 14 Sep 2008
Re: Commercial gigapan head
Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 2:06 GMT
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The device looks pretty good, but the pictures they took are fricken amazing.

gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=70. The Flash player is most sweet.
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spyboy

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Location: New Hampton, NH, United States
Registered: 7 Oct 2006
Re: Commercial gigapan head
Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 2:41 GMT
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Here are my shots (the gigapan ones start September 10th, when I received my beta unit)

gigapan.org/viewProfile.php?userid=1988

The Wellington Beach shot got all wonky because of the trees, when it stitched (though the gigapan stitcher)

Kirk
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