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Re: Any companies offer pano tool/app for companies (white label)

Flashificator — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:42:55 GMT

Could you explain better?

"White label" and "xy" references only confuse me.

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Re: Panoramas made easy

burake — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:32:31 GMT

Thank for this sharing John...
Regards
Burak

360 precision absolute MK1 - For Sale

MickyLuv — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:55:38 GMT

I have a 360 head for sale...not used in many many years and only used in anger two or three times....

Not sure what it is worth but it wil go on ebay too so I will have some idea soon.

Any offers, then please contact me.

Re: Need some replace my equipment advice!

burake — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:02:21 GMT

Hi Rolf,
One of the advantages of Canon 8-15 mm as a zoom fisheye lens is that you can choose your focal length. You can shoot at 8, at 15 or at values between. When you shoot at 8 mm you'll need 3 shots + 1 nadir to cover the whole sphere, when you shoot at 15 mm you'll need 6 shots around + 1 nadir + 2 (or 1) zenith shot. I prefer mostly shooting at 12 mm. I need 4 shots around + 1 nadir. The resulting equirectangular image (my pano) is sized approx. 10.700x5350 pix. This is for me a good compromise between the time I invest in shooting and stitching and the resolution. If I'd shoot at 8 mm, I'd need less shooting and postprocessing time but my pano would be sized about 7300x3650 pix. And shooting at 15 mm gives a pano of approx. 14000x7000 pix. More resolution means the viewer can zoom in more and pick up more details of the subject.
If you already have a cropped sensor camera why buy a second one? I'd go for 5d m2. When you would shoot with the focal lengths as mentioned above you would need to shoot more frames with a 7D (at the same focal lengths) to cover the sphere .
I don't know about the ISO-performance of 7d but FF cameras are known to have a better ISO performance (less noise). I had to make use of high ISO a couple of times to have a "high enough" shutter speed and I'm glad that I did those shootings with my 5dm2. You can shoot up to 1250 ISO without problems - provided you make noise reduction in the postprocessing.
Regards
Burak

photograph large paintings, old maps, etc..

microfilme — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:14:36 GMT

Sorry for using an automatic translator.
We are assessing the buy Panogear motorized panoramic head and wanted whether it is advisable for these photographs.
Does anyone have experiences to capture this type of material?
They are usually placed on a wall and we want the end result is no distortion.
Thank you very much!

Re: 1st VT of a real estate tour. thanks for all the help PGF

vrbali — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:25:22 GMT

jasmine lee said:
I think this is a HDR tour, like this ... anyone know how to shoot this kind of image?

Most of the (unnatural) look comes from tonemapping (and saturation) of the 32-bit HDR, not from the way the images are photographed.

This pano was made from bracketed image sets as you can tell from the type of (layered) ghosting of the person behind the window.

VRBali
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Re: Comparing the NN4 and NN5

Matthew Durr — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:15:22 GMT

Heinz, great to see. Definitely going with at least a NN5. NN4 is out of the question now.

Re: Image distortion at the edge of the viewer

badmenton — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:57:36 GMT

Many thanks. I must admit that to get the picture of the car interior I had to zoom out from the original position so that really should have triggered something in my head about the actual cause.

Thank you for your help!

Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf

klausesser — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:56:20 GMT

Klapheck Retrospektive:

www.360impressions.de/Klapheck/

5D2, Nikon 35mm, Panoneed programmable head with TC handheld-controller, 45shots @20% overlap.

best, Klaus

Re: how you protect pano files? protect pano workflow

Luigi Pirandello — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:36:23 GMT

hi, my actuoal workflow is:
1) limit domain for viewer (js and swf)
2) encrypt xml files and images pano file (not for mobile)

now i'm finding some tutorial to:
1) stop non authorized iframe publication;
2) do not allow to download anything by htttrack-wget similar software

if someone has usefull link...

Re: A3 Size Photo Slippage

Bob Stone — Mon, 20 May 2013 01:07:39 GMT

tallmanirl, This is the third time I have read your post and I'm still wondering what you mean by "slip down"...? Do you mean the photo would somehow come out of the frame? Most frames I have used have an indent that you lay the glass in, then the photo, then the cardboard and it is all secured with frame clips/tacks... If done properly, there is no way it could slip.

Restaurant Blue Moon v2013

Flashificator — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:41:55 GMT

My favorite restaurant in the world, Blue Moon, requested a new tour to replace the existing one on their website, which I shot back in May 2008, due to some internal changes.

I have just begun working on the images, and here are two in a mini-tour, within the basic design framework I have intended to use (and further build on) for the tour:

restaurantbluemoon.com/1/BlueMoonPreview2013/

Here the same panos individually for mobile/HTML5 viewing (stripped down to the panorama images only, using the Flashificator H5 engine)

restaurantbluemoon.com/1/BM1_H5
and
restaurantbluemoon.com/1/BM2_H5

The restaurant houses the second biggest private bottle collection in the world, with around 22.000 bottles of wine/beer/alcohol... it is absolutely a wonderful place, and I have dined there on regular basis since I first experienced it some 8 years ago.

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Re: historical townhall in Wuppertal, Germany

burake — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:47:42 GMT

Beautiful work Klaus. And a big WB-challenge. Thanks for sharing.
Regards
Burak

Re: Curry Village tent cabin

DorinDXN — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:20 GMT

While the electronic safe is a nice touch and useful to let the gear in when you travel to bathroom, the footprints on the ceiling surprise you until you realize that is a camp or tent rather than a cabin, and the ceiling could easily be under someones feet sometimes.

thanks for sharing,
Dorin

Re: PTGui Pro or AutoPano Giga? (latest versions)

GlamourBomb — Sun, 19 May 2013 05:33:36 GMT

Panos are an avocation for me. I use both PTGui Pro and AutoPano Giga and like them equally.

PTGui was recommended to me by a pro in the visual effects industry. I like it, works great, no complaints, but the GUI it's not very intuitive. When I was starting out it was tough to figure out on my own however the support is excellent.

Autopano is good as well. It's interface is a little bit more user friendly and if I had started out with it, I may have never tried anything else.

Try the demos before you decide. In my vocation I get the best I can afford, and this doesn't always mean the most expensive. Since panoramic software is a tool you'll be working with professionally, be sure you have a grasp of it and don't let a difference of $30 be part of the decision.

My 2 cents. YMMV.

[edited for typographical error]