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Cleanning house - Selling my fisheyes and other stuff

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?

You can find a player here:

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

Re: ladybug2 VS ladybug3

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

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

Re: ladybug 2

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

LadyBug 2 for sale

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does anyone notice the over exposed sky?

Re: Trying to enhance the interactivity

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.

Re: New sunrise sunset calculator by cambridge in color.-Sundicator

Most interesting would be a revival of the sundicator called dials. To know not only time but most important where the sun and shadows are showing. Very precise instrument-dials. used in combination with a compass.

Re: Poorman's pano head!

I started out with a Nodal Ninja 4 and a Canon 15mm fisheye. It works great and it is what I use for indoor panos, or when I start doing HDR panos. I then bought the Sigma 8mm fisheye and found out that outdoor panos stitched up fine with the string and plumb bob method. So I made the simple pano bracket to use with my mono pod. It works surprisingly well. The few panos I shot stitched up perfect. I even did an indoor pano of my kitchen and that stitched up fine too, it took a few tries though due to the slow shutter speed.

Since the 5D mkii is a full frame camera, I haven't had to tilt the camera up. So far the Sigma 8mm seems to have enough overlap to stitch the top of the pano just fine. Since it also shoots a perfect round circle, the camera can be held in landscape mode instead of portrait mode, so a simple flat pano bracket is all that is needed.

I don't recommend all the pros ditch their nodal ninjas and go make one of these simple brackets, but if you need to take a quick simple outdoor pano, this combo is hard to beat. 4 shots and one nadir shot and you are done.

Re: Flash or HTML5

Of course I disagree... because I can point to FACTS that support my view.

All the anti flash hype that has been going on for over a year now, is nothing but hype.

Read the thread and weep...or enjoy I know that many of those who have been carrying the "Flash end is nigh" signs, are not capable of admitting their own errors, but some have become less doomsday predicting as they have finally found out that facts are not to be ignored.

... no need to take my words for it though. Facts and common sense has it's own clear voice:

panotoolsng.586017.n4.nabble.com/HTML5-panorama-v...

Look for Hans' posts and you have it served straight up.

Re: Panoramic Photographers on Facebook (Group)

Sweet!! Thanks Sam,
I just posted a question!

Re: Chinese Panoramic Motorbases-E-filming

www.argraph.com/E-Filming-360-Panorama/E-Filming-...(Web).pdf
not so informative like th german link. almost no technical data....! Crazy.
www.argraph.com/Press%20Releases/E-Filming/E-Film...

www.china-telecommunications.com/manufacturers/sh...

www.efilming.com/

dont know yet whats about ps-60B.

Re: Best Nikon DX compatible fisheye for low-light shooting?

Thanks, those are with the samyang 7,5 for m4/3 on a Nex, here in the south of Europe the snow is very rare.

Re: blend two or more nadir image

"Stitching programs have aligning/blending features that assist in manipulating the images of the picture-set to deal with the fact that the NPP moved. Again, I don’t understand this topic too well yet but I do know that if you take the time and use the alignment features of the stitcher you can work past minor parallax issues resulting from minor movement of the NPP."

360panography.wordpress.com/2011/08/

After reading this post i athought: "If i get one stitching error and then move-set the allingment of ono or two images i can resolve this error but i'll get an error in another side of pano. so with panaroma editor isn't usefull for stitching problem". This work is photoshop competence (how wrote jhon).

thanks all for the clarity.

Re: How do you meter your 360 degree panoramas?

Then you are doing it properly. With bracketed RAW images, you should not have issues with exposure. You have plenty of material to work with.

I wish I shot raw from the very beginning. There are many panoramas I would love to go back and correct, but cannot. Same with family pictures. I wish I discovered RAW early on.

SaladoPlayer 1.3 - open source flash panorama viewer

Got new release completed, feel free to use it and make comments

bit.ly/ympkSI

Re: Two Panos of Waterfalls - Revisited

Thanks for the input. I shoot only in raw. I will work on the skies a bit more in the future. Need to bone up on levels, etc in Photoshop. Thanks again.

Eight-camera gigapan of dodgeball game

Here’s one for the gadget freaks. It’s the eight-camera gigapan setup of local news photographer, Ryan Jackson. He was photographing yesterday’s world-record dodgeball game in Edmonton, Canada.

www.edmontonjournal.com/sports/6099735.bin?size=6...

The gigapan is here:

www.edmontonjournal.com/sports/u-of-a-dodgeball/i...

I know from experience that the light is quite low in that gym. Shooting the game would have been a challenge.

Judy

School Panorama the old style?

Hi all

You know the kind of picture with millions of faces lined up on teirs 3 or 4 high.
How are these done?
I imagine using three or four pictures taken along the line and merged with PTGUI.

Any ideas/suggestions.

Graeme

is this tripod setup achievable?

Hi

For a certain projet i need to capture stereo panoramas et about 36cm vertical offset, at the same time.

I thought about a setup with 2 canon 5D with 2 NodalNinja R1, one on top of the other, thanks to a "side arm".

Here's a sketch of the setup : hpics.li/2d2394e

I was wondering what kind of hardware would be needed to achieve this.

Maybe something like this?

www.kirpi.it/Photo/Superclamp-and-magic-arm-for-g...

www.shopping.com/gitzo-manfrotto-396b3-double-art...

Any idea is welcome

Thanks for you help!

crisp canvas prints

I found one best place for canvas printing. Here you can putting photos on canvas, turn photos into stylish photo canvas prints. They are specialises in printing photos and art to canvases.

Re: Chinese digital Rotopancams-efilming panoshot nc91

If i remember right the lower resolution version here costs 8000 usd(i asked them some years ago) and the other one obviously not offered anymore cost 14000 or more.

Re: Domain Name For Sale-check value here

www.estibot.com/appraise.php?a=appraise&data=3dsw....com
btw: i bought that one

Re: Reverse Engineer an Equilateral?

True,
ofcourse you can also think of fotoshopping on both side of the seams and nadir patching.
In short, things that google's automated stitcher doesn't do.

Precision360 Absolute Mk1 and Manfrotto 755B For Sale

Hi

Following on from my previous post the 10.5 is now sold.

I am selling Precision360 Absolute (camera arm for D70) - it is mint condition and I'm asking for £200 plus P&P

Also have a Manfrotto 755B going for £90 plus P&P

Let me know if you are interested.

Many thanks

Panobook 2012 panoramic photography contest is now open

Contest website: www.panobook.org/

For the 4th consecutive year, Kolor, creator of Autopano software, invites you to join the biggest contest of panoramic images leading to the publication of a book! The competition is free and open to all. For the first time this year, you can win great prizes, including Panogear motorized head and Nodal Ninja hardware! This competition is unique in the panoramic world: the selected photos will be published in a book (Kolor Panobook 2012), which will be available to the selected contributors at special price.

Contest ends on February 29, 2012.
www.panobook.org/

Re: PTGUI for MAC under-performing...

Actually Hans you'r right, i've just left auto exif checked and it has worked a treat, I must have got confused and started entering 15mm in the box and selecting full frame fish eye, which wasn't needed.

Thanks for your help, sometimes you just need someone to point out you're wrong!

Re: Anyone tried Samyang 7.5mm on Canon APS-C

They might be confusing the Samyang 7.5mm M4/3 lens with the 8mm lens which does come in all mounts.

Re: Tripod

I always liked the Manfratto 755XB. It is lightweight but still very sturdy. (I think it was weight rated up to 15 pounds?) I use it with my NN3 and Canon 7D and it is a huge time saver on non-flat terrain, because it has an adjustable ball head center column that serves as a level. This would save you a few bucks on a level extension if you were looking to be as economic as possible. Last I checked it was under $250 most places. Don't go too cheap on a tripod. Any movement, albeit subtle, has the ability to ruin your pano in the stitching and rendering phase.

Re: First Pano Ever.

Your second attempt is looking good, but the .mov file is somewhat large at 15MB. A flat horizon is generally preferred, but the pronounced curve in yours is due to the horizon not being centered vertically in your image. This is the result of asymmetrical cropping in PTGui or Photoshop. I still don't understand why you are getting a seam line, though. You should avoid all these problems if you set the output image in PTGui to a full 360x180 equirectangular image with pixel dimensions in the exact ratio 2:1, e.g. 8000x4000. This will give blank areas at top and bottom, but viewing limits on pitch can be specified in Pano2VR such that these areas are just outside the viewing range and so cannot be seen. There should be no seam line at the +180/-180 wrap either.

John

Re: 360 spherical videos using 4 (or 5) vertical APS-C cameras

you may find it useful:

punkoryan.com/2011/02/08/shooting-360-degree-vide...

Re: Sigma 8/4 MF Pentax with panohead

Sorry - pics:

Regards Martin

Re: Precision360 Absolute + Nikon 10.5 + Tripod For Sale

redeye1 said:
I don't want to do eBay because those robbing sods take 20% right?

Wrong. Selling fees: 10% of the final selling price (up to a maximum of £40).

John

Nodal Ninja 3 MkII

Hi,

Does anyone selling NN3 panoramic head (starter package is enough)? Prices on eBay are currently high so maybe someone here can offer better deal.
I planing to use it with a Canon 550D and Samyang 8mm..

Re: How are these "impossible" shot done?

I see your point.

Have you ever flown FPV? Have you shot an aerial pano via RC aircraft?

Re: Video segment in 360

I get a error 404 whenever I click on the second link. The link is not valid.

Re: Nikon D3100, D Light and Raw

Savak said:
My experiments taking an indoor shot exposed for inside showed the outside through the window fairly well exposed as well.

I experimented with in-camera D-Lighting on my Nikon D5000. It was unpredictable and didn’t give uniform results for panorama work. The strong setting produced pronounced halos.

It won’t do you any good to get only one well-exposed image out of the 8 or 9 images you need for a panorama.

If you shoot daytime landscape panos, shoot RAW and hit the exposure perfectly, you can process a set of single RAW images. That method won’t work for interior/exterior subjects or even outdoors with deep shadows and bright sky. For those subjects you will need bracketed exposures.

Judy

Re: Quick test of my NEX fisheye

Quick test of my NEX fisheye.

Sorry, NEX 3, Sony VCL-ECF1 Fisheye Converter for NEX 16mm.

Just wanted to post some sample images to compare quality with the Samyang 7.5mm M43 fisheye that has been adapted to the NEX that has been discussed in another thread. I assumed too much common knowledge. It was just a quick test of the VCL_ECF1 without regard to a good alignment of the camera on the pano head.

Re: Compact monopod with small footprint?

Are there other hiking poles with camera mounts that are as compact but can extend longer than 51"?

Re: Giga from the city of Bialystok in Poland.

Image is fine, but the player i dont like, The image loads very slowly and the player wont show all the image.
To elaborate, say zoomed out i can center on -10degrees and see from -15degrees (bottom edge) to -5 degrees. If i zoom in i can still only centre on -10degrees at the lowest and not move down to see the lower parts at full resolution, hope that's clear

Re: How to make dashcode HTML widget for iBooks Author?

these is a tutorial for embedding html5 panoramas in ibooks here -

www.panophoto.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=104...

sam

Re: 360 Precision

^^^^^ I nominate this for "Good advice of the day" award. ^^^^^

Re: Sigma 88mm Circular Fisheye Lens for Nikon

I offer 670,-
A 3 year Square trade warranty will cost US180$
Amazon will have a 3 year US warranty on Sigma lenses

regards
Peter

Domian Names up for worthy cause

I have some domain names up for grabs that could potentially be considered for use running a panorama website.
What I would like to do is offer these domains in exchange for a tax deductible donation to the ASCPA (donate.aspca.org/). Their mission: to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States.

This is one of many worthy causes I believe in and have contributed over the years from the company side (Nodal Ninja) and personal side. All I ask is that you make a small donation to this organization in any amount of at least $20 or more. Once your donation is made email me your receipt @ bill at nodal ninja dot com and let me know which domain name you want transferred.

Only one domain per person first come first served. If the desired domain name is already taken I will cross it out from the list below. Because of possible lag times there is no guarantee a particular domain may not already be taken. If I wake in the morning (usually I do) and see multiple donations the domain name will go to the highest contributor.

Thank you for your donations.

Bill

Re: Canon or Sigma 15mm

The Canon 15mm fisheye lenses are certainly getting very thin on the ground in the UK, but a few can still be found - e.g. 7 in Bonnie Scotland here: tinyurl.com/7dmsrmt .

John

Re: Newbie just starting out. Which Lens? Which Software? Tours

Franklin Jackson said:
Is there a general recommended manual camera setting for taking in home panorama / vr pictures?

One other thing to be careful about is the focus. Because the D5100 lacks the in-body focus motor, the 10.5mm won't autofocus.

The focus scale on the 10.5mm is next to useless and the focus ring can move easily, so it's best to duct tape it, once the images look sharp in live view.

Re: Small cascade on Mammoth Creek....

DemonDuck said:
The time between shots with my LX3 can be nearly a second and the monopod wobbles and the wind blows me around and if anything is moving -- clouds, trees, bushes -- forget about it.

Very often the problem areas are stationary parts of the panorama - like the rocks and ground in yours. What's happening in the sky or tops of trees is of no consequence since you are only masking in the deep shadows on the ground and rocks. PTGui will do the alignment of the shots in the stitching of the blend planes, and there may be minor parallax issues, but you can blend the planes manually in Photoshop with a layer mask and brush to lighten the shadows where needed to avoid most problems.

John

Chinese New Year in HK

Fireworks

www.my360vr.com/vr/2012fireworks4/2012fireworks4....

Night Market

www.my360vr.com/vr/2012nitemarket/nitemarket1.html

Re: Phottix Aion

Tim Eastman said:
Did you try single shot mode on your Plato?

Yes, I just get one shot.

I tested with my kit lens and the Fn button has be manually held down to get the three-shot burst. I don't how I managed to get only sets of three shots in my initial testing. Dumb luck, maybe.

Judy

Re: Virtual Tour shot with iPhone 4S

Here is my latest little 3 shot tour. iOSVR is a real treat to work with. I highly recommend it as an addition to your work flow. Thanks in advance for looking!

www.regal360.com/index.php/component/content/arti...

Re: Interesting use of NN3!

Henri Smeets said:
Still, under the right circumstances the iPhone can create quite nice panos! ;

photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=3ac2d093-3fa4-48a2-b...

Human tripod?

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Panorama Viewers (again)

You can use vr5 script without logo, there's config option for this.. you're just asked to leave it there... script is free for personal use.

Re: Modified to: Samyang on NEX :D

Yup, blu-tak, velcro or double sided tape. It can be on an angle, it doesn't need to be head on. You can even make a bracket off the panohead.

Or you could even mount on the lens or adapter.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Upgrade from Sigma 8mm

If you ask about Canon 550D + 8-15mm, you should check at 360p site if there is a ring or such for the 8-15mm, as I know Fanotec - NodalNinja has the ring already for R1, but having the chance of greater resolution toward the 15mm end of the lens, then a L type panohead like NN3 will suit you better.

Thanks, Dorin. This answered my query. I'll put these goodies on my wish list!

Re: Accurate bearings?

I hope you'll read the specifications of the rotators.

The advanced rotators has click stops, mean a detent plunger stops the rotator at desired position AND as a extra they have a knob for locking the rotation, mean if you tighten the knob the rotator become secured in that position and you can take your set for focus stacking, after that you'll untighten the knob an the rotator can go to the next stops (deppending uppon the rotator model them the stops can be as dense as 3.5°)
I think all them have positions you need for, check that.

The bearings not need to be exactly quite at 90° for what you're doing, if you belive so then you need to learn to align the merged shoots.

The slight sidaways play will be almost none as you can secure both rotators in a particular position.
But are another causes which can produce plays, starting the with the rubber tips of your tripod and such, again knowledges of align within the stacks will help and inspect your setup and tighten all that can produce play.

cheers,
Dorin

Does anyone have the Equip to Record Screen on ipad 2?

Hi Guy does anyone here have the eqipment to record 30 secs of a tour in use, an old restaurant we shot I need to put it into a video.

Any other nedia to record the tour comes out bad quality.

So any video nuts out there who has a decoder to jump down the res from 1080 to 720 for example on an imac and the cables to do it I would be interested on talking with you.

Cheers,

Steve

New panoramic travel kit...

www.gizmag.com/35-foot-camera-vanishing-cultures/...

Re: Hi! Some pointers please

Well OK, lets forget the macro rail then, that's just a means to get things in focus. It provides fine adjustments in the lens-axis direction. It seems I need a rail because pano heads don't have fine adjustment. No problem, move on. The macro rail just fixes to the tripod screw in a pano head, that's really not an issue.

It seems folk are getting confused by the previous posts in the thread, which are history now, so I'll start a new thread, about "accurate bearings".

Re: Question for Nick

Hi Tim,

Here you can find your info about the NN Quick Mount Mini System:

www.nodalninja.com/forum/showthread.php?4698-Vari...

Heinz

Re: PhotoShop CS5 Question

Better if you can correct the vignetting, so it´s easier for PTGUi (or whatever you use) to do the stitch then and match colors. But do that only to the point you see there is no degradation in color, noise or contrast. Remember that what ps is doing is just increasing the exposure in the corners, so, depending on the scene, sometimes this ends with washed out tones. Trust in what you see.
Best,

Pablo

Re: Last days of 360 business (or at least a huge part of it)

I saw a web site that streamed a live hockey game. There was a pod mounted near the teams box that had several video cameras inside. The viewer could scroll around and change the view to whatever they wanted while the game was going on. The cameras did not move, only the direction the viewer pointed to moved. It was all very impressive and all done in real time.

All of the hardware and software for streaming live real time panoramic TV is already here.

Re: Help! I'm going mad!

Well I for one won't be holding my breath for the Java Applets return as the favoured panorama viewer.

Yes, I already embraced Android in many forms.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: iDevice VTs. What do you do?

Thanks Dorin. It seems by the lack of replies, that not many producers are coding for iDevices.

I think initially, I will offer my clients this as an optional extra and charge appropriately.

Re: Has anyone tried the Pano-Maxx?

Tom Brown said:
DemonDuck said:
There is something wrong with your NN3 then. You should seek help from Nodal Ninja.

I purchased the NN3 from a Canadian vendor who was a very nice guy but sales, only. When I asked him about the detent issue, he nicely steered me to the main site where my inquiry did not result in a civil response. I will not be purchasing anything else from Nodal Ninja.

Nick Fan -- who is Nodal Ninja -- just replied to your query -- on a blog that belongs to another company.

You can't get better support than that. Could you imagine Steve Ballmer responding to a query about Microsoft on Apple's forum?

Re: Sigma error please help.

... and can you try the Sigma 15mm on another Canon body? I.E: 600D, 500D, 60D, 40D or similar.

Work or no work?

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: first quality pano head buy, just wanted to do a final check

DennisS said:
While riding the subway in Paris, I got a laugh every time I saw and advertisement for teaching "Wall Street English".

I'm sure it's nothing like typical American/US English. Much like Australia "Strine" speech. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strine

As for lens vs Lense
dictionary.reference.com/browse/lense

Lens is the world norm. But lense was part of my education. Still, I conformed once a started speaking cameras lenses.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Putting Panotour/Pano2VR flash file to the web

Thanks Guys,

All is clear now.

Re: For Sale: Nodal Ninja R1 Adjustable Tilt Ring Mount Package

Hello, This item is still available for someone who will get good use out of it

Re: Coming Soon . . . 180 degree circular fisheye lens for mirrorless cameras

This version will be tweaked further so any current images produced by this lens will not reflect actual performance so I won't be posting any.

Just wanted to let everyone peep the physical lens.

Re: Help with NN3 settings for Nex/Samyang 7.5 needed

How do you optimize.

If you do not optimize for shift you may get this even if your settings are perfect.

And of course you also need controlpoints at the nadir area.

Hans

Re: Photographer needed in Macao

Hey Doug,

We are looking for a local photographer for budgetary concerns, but thanks for the offer.

Re: Keith Prowse Hospitailty using VIrtual Tours

I hope the sales staff at Keith Prowse learns to use them as a guided tour they can use over the phone & Internet when they get inquiries.

Re:GPS tracker TK102-2

If any one has any problem of using TK102/TK102-2/TK103/TK103-2/TK201 GPS tracker,please contact me since we are the original firmware and software provider.

Email:globaltracker@foxmail.com

Best Regards
Globaltracker team

Re: Panoramas from Thailand

I just wanted eye candy on these panos, because I felt so good in this stunning location and weather. Thanks

For Sale: Nodal Ninja 5 w/ RB16 and EZ-Leveler II

Used this only a few times and found that panoramas are not for me. Everything is like new and the spare parts are all still sealed in their original plastic bags. Cases show no wear.

I am a contractor working in Stuttgart, Germany, so I can accept €s and send to Europe or $s and send through my APO, to the US.

For pictures or more info: sedavisdba@yahoo.com

Best offer takes it all!!

Re: Is there a pano head that can take a camera with battery grip

I shoot on a Nikon D300 with vertical grip on a Nodal Ninja 5 without any problem. With a bit of a tweak I've even managed to squeeze in a Manfrotto quick release head so I can drop the camera onto my tripod without swapping anything over.

Bob Bilsland.

Re: Shift a panorama ?

Yes i mean the local adjustments. Sorry for the bad english. The offset trick seem to work like a charm. Thanx for the help. I do a lot of local adjustments to to separate us from the competition. But it was always a fight with that line.

Re: Proper Use of Smartblend?

Update: I followed the steps you outlined, John, on an old panorama that was showing the issues I initially wrote about. The results were completely different and much better thanks to you.

Just so you know my set up: I'm using an Atome / Sigma 8mm / Canon 500. And as I've mentioned, I'm using a monopod most of the time although I do have a tripod. Anyway, obtaining a separate zenith or a non-handheld nadir is not currently possible with this set up. (4H+N)

For 2012 I decided to learn PhotoShop instead of purchasing new hardware so questions about this software will ensue.

Thanks again. Your tutorials are the best!

Re: Is Sigma 8-16 good enough

Sorry for the late reply guys. Its great hearing straight from the horse's mouth. Sandeep your panos are really amazing & I am taking them as a benchmark for wedding panos to begin with
I have narrowed down to Samyang 8mm & NN3, Samyang already ordered, yet to order NN3, felt R1 was a bit on the higher side for a beginner like me. Will share some work for feedback from this wonderful community once my gear arrives.
Thanks a lot again,
Regards,
Neil

Re: Lightweight/compact rig for hiking and cycling

hi:

i have a sigma 8mm f3.5 (nikkon mount) with r10 mounted (+5 degree). do i need to change the nodal point if i switch to sony? in face i m not sure if mounting the lens in other position is possible.

normally i will shoot 6 round even i know 4 shots are possible for sigma.

thanks

Re: swfobj plugin for wordpress

uvresh said:
i'll appreciate any help
thanks
uv

Have you tried Panopress?:
www.panopress.org/

Andrew

Re: Ryan Seacrest Publishes Panos to TourWrist

Love the guy in the tux with sneakers on.

Re: A new Danish Royal shoot

And there is also the Hasselblad 60MP Back which I guess with adapter can be used with the old 30mm fisheye if you could get hold of it.
www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/162337-REG/Hasselb...

That would give me 30000x15000 pixels in 6 around + zenith.
If ou pay me $60.000 I will be happy to do one for you.

Hans

Need help with introducing letter.

Hello Panoguide community

I would like to introduce 360 virtual tours service in my area for restaurants and hotels and on this moment I'm trying to write introducing letter for the companies. Will be really great if some one can share with me with a successful examples from your experience You always welcome write me even private message or use my email.

Many thanks!

Re: Crash Test Facility Virtual Tour

Hi

I also few months ago decide to buy my first budget panoramic gear

1) I bought sfera-69 Russian made pano-head sfera-69.com/, happy with the quality and price.
2) also buy samyang 8mm
3) start from panotour pro - this software really helps you to understand how to work with krpano! Cause krpano cheaper and more flexible software! But little bit harder to use.
4) Workflow ideas - start from youtube look good videos how to stitch panos, but unfortunately not to so much good video tutorials for krpano!

Good luck!

Re: Digimarc Watermark Embedding

We had a thread a longer time ago, that multiple panos have been used by taking out visible copyright by for example limit up and down movements. So it stopped before you could see the copyright. After a longer discussion of those who saw their Panos on a website, the company took them off the website. I informed google as well about copyright problems with this website.

What do I like to say? I believe a digimarc helps you to control who is using your panos illegally. The thread showed several examples how people take off visible copyrights. So the digimarc for me is a safety add-on.

But right now there doesn't seem to be the Non-Plus Ultra to avoid theft.

Heinz

Re: Virtual Tour Analytics

Hans, I'm currently working on it but you can have a look at what I already have and sure with your experience you will see the potential.

Try this.

open this link
m.livepanoramas.com/events_details.php
then click on any thumbnail which has a QR code beside it, not on the QR code (it only makes it bigger), click on the thumnbail instead.

then in the event don't enter in full screen, instead pan in panoramas, you may click on other time entry for other panorama as well,
Pay attention on the QR code from upper right corner.
you'll see how the QR code changes after you stop panning or after you zoom in (there is a delay of 2 second in delivering the .png for practical reasons)
That QR code contain the link to the actual view, you can check it with your phone (QR scanner) or with a Desktop QR reader.
That QR code is a .png file produced by my server after it has received the current data view(pan,tilt,zoom, pano, event ..) those datas also goes into a log file so on..

It works in fullscreen too but you can see the changes only after you click on little QR code, and this the version for phones, look low resolution on PC or Tablets but has better download time if you're outside of Romania.

cheers,
Dorin

Re: Drop Shadow Text Effect - Issue

What I have deduced, so far, is the issue arises with the use of the %

Re: Winter Wonderland

A nice panorama of a nice location. It does look rather soft, but some sharpening would improve it. Aside from that, you might clone out the flare spots and tripod shadow. It also needs levelling: see www.johnhpanos.com/levtut.htm for a PTGui tutorial. Autopano Pro/Giga has a similar levelling feature.

John

Re: Hi ,new samples of tourweaver7

Steve
Here is what my Log File Analyzer can do

It provides the length of Session Time, but it doesn't match the number of times the tour .html file is viewed

Re: Embedding HTML5 tours into a web page....

Has anyone got this to work in Joomla? I'm going nuts trying to get this to work in a joomla article.

I have been just copying this into the joomla article then edit the file paths. Joomla does seem to eat some of the code along the way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Craig

Here is the html code output from Pano2vr.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
		<title>Hovsonville Point Virtual Tour</title>
		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" />
		<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
		<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />
		<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js">
		</script>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			// hide URL field on the iPhone/iPod touch
			function hideUrlBar() {
				
				if (window.pageYOffset==0) {
					window.scrollTo(0, 1);
					// repeat every second for slow rendering pages
					setTimeout(function() { hideUrlBar(); }, 3000);
				
				}
			}
		</script>
		<style type="text/css" title="Default">
			body, div, h1, h2, h3, span, p {
				font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
				color: #000000; 
			}
			body {
			  font-size: 10pt;
			  background : #ffffff; 
			}
			table,tr,td {
				font-size: 10pt;
				border-color : #777777;
				background : #dddddd; 
				color: #000000; 
				border-style : solid;
				border-width : 2px;
				padding: 5px;
				border-collapse:collapse;
			}
			h1 {
				font-size: 18pt;
			}
			h2 {
				font-size: 14pt;
			}
			.warning { 
				font-weight: bold;
			} 
		</style>	
	</head>
	<body onorientationchange="hideUrlBar();">
		<h1>Hovsonville Point Virtual Tour</h1>
		<br>
		<script type="text/javascript" src="pano2vr_player.js">
		</script>
		<script type="text/javascript" src="skin.js">
		</script>
		<div id="container" style="width:640px;height:480px;">
		This content requires HTML5/CSS3, WebGL, or Adobe Flash Player Version 9 or higher.
		</div>
		<script type="text/javascript">
		if (swfobject.hasFlashPlayerVersion("9.0.0")) {
			var flashvars = {};
			var params = {};
			params.quality = "high";
			params.bgcolor = "#ffffff";
			params.allowscriptaccess = "sameDomain";
			params.allowfullscreen = "true";
			var attributes = {};
			attributes.id = "pano";
			attributes.name = "pano";
			attributes.align = "middle";
			swfobject.embedSWF(
				"Catalina.swf", "container", 
				"640", "480",
				"9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", 
				flashvars, params, attributes);
			
		} else 
		// check for CSS3 3D transformations and WebGL
		if (ggHasHtml5Css3D() || ggHasWebGL()) {
	
			// create the panorama player with the container
			pano=new pano2vrPlayer("container");
			// add the skin object
			skin=new pano2vrSkin(pano);
			// load the configuration
			pano.readConfigUrl("Catalina Cafe.xml");
			// hide the URL bar on the iPhone
			hideUrlBar();
			
		}
		</script>
		<noscript>
			<p><b>Please enable Javascript!</b></p>
		</noscript>
		
		<p>
		<table>
			<tr>
				<td><b>Description</b></td>
				<td>Catalina Cafe - Interior</td>
			</tr>
												</table>
	</body>
</html>

This is the code after adding to the joomla article

<p>Hovsonville Point Virtual Tour</p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js">// <![CDATA[

// ]]></script>
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
			// hide URL field on the iPhone/iPod touch			function hideUrlBar() {								if (window.pageYOffset==0) {					window.scrollTo(0, 1);					// repeat every second for slow rendering pages					setTimeout(function() { hideUrlBar(); }, 3000);								}			}
// ]]></script>
<h1>Hovsonville Point Virtual Tour</h1>
<p> </p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="pano2vr_player.js">// <![CDATA[

// ]]></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="skin.js">// <![CDATA[

// ]]></script>
<div id="container" style="width: 640px; height: 480px;">This content requires HTML5/CSS3, WebGL, or Adobe Flash Player Version 9 or higher.</div>
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
		if (swfobject.hasFlashPlayerVersion("9.0.0")) {			var flashvars = {};			var params = {};			params.quality = "high";			params.bgcolor = "#ffffff";			params.allowscriptaccess = "sameDomain";			params.allowfullscreen = "true";			var attributes = {};			attributes.id = "pano";			attributes.name = "pano";			attributes.align = "middle";			swfobject.embedSWF(				"Catalina.swf", "container", 				"640", "480",				"9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", 				flashvars, params, attributes);					} else 		// check for CSS3 3D transformations and WebGL		if (ggHasHtml5Css3D() || ggHasWebGL()) {				// create the panorama player with the container			pano=new pano2vrPlayer("container");			// add the skin object			skin=new pano2vrSkin(pano);			// load the configuration			pano.readConfigUrl("Catalina Cafe.xml");			// hide the URL bar on the iPhone			hideUrlBar();					}
// ]]></script>
<noscript></noscript>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>Description</strong></td>
<td>Catalina Cafe - Interior</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Re: Help with pano stitch - shaky nadir shot

Thanks to everyone. Ill try taking the nadir in a better way.

Heres the result:

www.elchevirtual.com/panoport/pano_salvador/

thanks!

Old panos now available for Android mobiles too

The link
m.livepanoramas.com/event/IzenaNoKai/?pano=012

or the QRcode (which one suits you better)

thanks for visiting,
Dorin

Re: New release notification:Panoweaver 8 beta has been released!

Same question as in the Galleries section...

You're not Jenny.

Please explain.

Which R10 for Samyang 8mm Canon?

Which R10 for a Samyang 8mm Canon?

On a Full Frame?

And on a Crop Sensor?

Re: Basketball Arenas

Thanx Bob

Here's the virtual tour that was shot at the same time as that photo

vabq.com/GoLobos/TourWeaver_ThePit.html

Re: New to this forum

Timbale,

There is still a lot of the learning curve you need to go through before you are ready to patch the Nadir. There are several techniques. Some work better for others, some do not. When you are ready, there is plenty of free advice to be had.

99.9% done with Pano2VR. Do these look over sharp? www.dlsphoto.net/Panoramas.htm I am by no means an expert.

Dennis

Re: Feedback request

Just want to jump in to say that is no need for feedback about this, as I've tested myself in a phone shop and seems to work.

thanks for reading,
Dorin

Re: Have you seen this yet?

Results look good to me.

I expect the production model to be delayed and low quality.

Re: Fall colors along the Eastern Sierra

Sorry for the duplicate post.

All the panos that are going into this series have been posted.

www.dlsphoto.net/Panoramas.htm

Click on the second thumbnail from the top.

I will probably come back to them later for fine tuning and such. Time to take a break and get back to work.

Re: First 360 pano, home interior. Opinions?

Thanks for the link. I also have a 60D, so I could use it on it. But less resolution compared to the 5D.

Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country

Hi Jon,

When I see your panos of Norway I’m always amazed at how similar the landscape is to northern Alberta and northeastern BC.

I’m no expert on trees, but my observation is that forests here are spruce, pine, larch and poplars - aspen on the dry lands and balsam poplar and cottonwood in the sheltered and moist valley bottoms.

You have far more birch trees. Yellow-bellied sapsuckers destroy the birch trees here. They’re handsome devils - woodpeckers with red heads and striking black and white racing stripes – that drill holes in the trees, suck the sap and kill the trees within a few years.

Judy

Re: The Chase, a 360 panoramic car chase.

Hi Eric,

great stuff and thanks for the neat clip behind the scenes.

all the best from germany
Bernd

Creative 360 dergee virtual tour Happy new Year and Christmas card!

New year Greeting tour from Easypano :

www.easypano.com/Gallery/new/start.html

Made by Panoweaver:
www.easypano.com/panorama-software.html
Thank for all friends support!

Re: Hello, my first experience. Looking for feedback

Thanks guys for your positive feedbacks ! About cliffs pano totally agree, there was problem with a stitching, I try to make proper horizon line, next time I'll make more shoots for better stitching

Happy New Year !!!

Winter festival in Castelldefels (Barcelona)

www.tusquet.herobo.com/02/castellers05.html

www.tusquet.herobo.com/01/castellers.html

Dry spots and wet spots in Alberta, Canada

I have a couple new landscape tours for anyone who’s interested. The first is of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada.

www.judyarndt.ca/fall_2011/dinosaur_park/dinosaur...

The second tour has scenes from Jasper National Park.

Links to both tours and maps of the areas can be found on my home page at

www.judyarndt.ca/

All comments welcome (even if I decide to argue with you).

Judy Arndt

Re: atheneum

I agree with JH about the white balance. Everything seems to have an un-natural sickly, yellow colouring.

What was the actual colour of those curtains at the right side of the image that JH included?

Re: Church Cartoons anno 1548

Yes thats the biblical story about king Herod.. If it is correct or not may be questioned.

www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/his...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great

Hans

Index of panoramic photographers and companies

Helo!
If there's anybody interested in promotion of his own website or commercial service - I kindly recommend submiting his website address and physical address to my Free Panoramic Directory panodirectory.com
Please do not submit sites not relative to panoramic photography. It is manually moderated by me, also panoramic photographer. All of You are welcome!

Re: PTGui: horizon straight in editor, but curved in final

Robert Bilsland said:
My bad, I should have noticed that in your screen shot of the panorama editor there was yellow lines. These are crop lines and restrict the size of what is output. If you hover over each of these lines your cursor should change and you will be able to drag them off the top and bottom of the window. After this go back to the panorama settings tab and make sure the output is now correctly set at 360 x 180 and then finally goto the create panorama tab and make sure the output size is set correctly too. Hopefully this should now do the trick.

Yes, that did the trick, thanks! When I removed the crop lines the horizon was straightened. Just to make sure, I brought the crop lines back in and exported again--bowed horizon was back.

Thanks everyone for the feedback.

Re: Did spherical panoramas get old for you?

Syncamorea,

Disclaimer: I do not make my living at this. It is and always will be just a hobby.

When on vacation I only do full spherical panoramas. www.dlsphoto.net/Panoramas.htm I mainly use a monopod. Three weeks in Europe, several trips to Yosemite and the Sierras and countless bicycle rides. I would much rather take a pano (which really does not take that much more time than a still photo) than a still photo. I leave the stills and video to my family.

If you do the same type of pano with the same equipment each and every time and never try to push yourself to do something new (hand held?) or try new techniques, I can see where panoramas would get very boring. The longer you follow discussions here, you will see that I do not stand still. I am always modifying or making my own pano hardware. I am also looking for new and different panoramas. I even stitched together some photos the doctor took of the inside of my eyeballs!

Keep it fresh and it will never get boring.

Dennis

Re: Body / Lense combo question.

Brandon
If you're going to make Real Estate Virtual Tours, you'll be combining Still Photos and Virtual Images.

I've not seen all the Tour Authoring software include stills

My real estate tours were made with Tourweaver which combines stills and virtual images very easy

Hi Please enjoy Easypano new relrease Panoweaver 8 beta gallery !

Hi friends,
Easypano Panoweaver 8 beta has been released with new features such as: Support Aodbe Flash Player 11 play engine, Share on Facebook, Little Planet Panorama, Automatic Little Planet Ceiling and Floor and stitching quality optimized.

More details:www.easypano.com/panorama-software-pw8beta.html

Gallery:www.easypano.com/panorama-gallery.html

Free trial version download:www.easypano.com/download-pw8.html

You are welcome to be one of the testers. Please pay attention to the following features.
Your feedbacks and suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Easypano Team

Re: Sony NEX + Sony Fisheye Converter: Cost $125.00 USD

Hi Smooth,

Thanks for your advice. Fortunately, the question is a bit academic now. A few minutes after the lens arrived yesterday, I heard that my bid for a panoramic project for the Cultural Olympics had been successful, therefore I shall be shooting sphericals for the next 8 months.

Regards,

John

Re: New Nodal Ninja Android App

Tom Jablonski said:
Downloaded and re-installed and it now works
Looking forward to Apple app too!

whew - hate technical glitches and glad you were able to get it going.
cheers
Bill

Re: Show some of your best NEW YEARS Panos!

here's mine: lifeinmegapixels.com/ptp/nye/nye.swf London fireworks with a video of the display in it, starts at the 30s countdown

Re: 360x180 on YouTube

TTurner,

I would have loved to, but it was impossible to leave a coherent thread intact.

Best,
Charles (and the TourWrist team)

Re: Samyang 7.5mm/Nex test images needed

Here are some. They're about 24mb each.

www.thomashuang.net/products/nps75/sample-botanic...

www.thomashuang.net/products/nps75/sample-peace-b...

www.thomashuang.net/products/nps75/sample-packhor...

Re: Need Help with iPad support

Hans Nyberg said:
I assume that your Panotour has the same options somewhere.
You need of course to have the original krpanoiphone.license.js in your source folder together with the normal krpano.license
If you do not have that you will get the demo watermark.

Hans

No - things are not quite like that with Panotour Pro.

Andrew

Re: Advise on Samyang 7.5 needed

BTW: have a look to Andrew Badders home page:

www.360tacticalvr.com/

Heinz

Re: Cosplayers from Singapore

I clever bit of work, much more imaginative than shots of The Boat Quay.

It must have taken ages.

Re: best professional organizations for pano

gidget said:
and I see there are a couple that specialize in VR....which one is best and most beneficial in your opinion?

Which are these?
What do you expect from such an organization?

@ Dorin

Dorin said:
That must be because I'm not a member of such organization, of course.

Definitely not. You will not be able to get a photo permit for any major sports event without the accreditation through either a major media outlet, a major picture agency or a major news-agency. No membership of any organization will get you in there. Also be advised that even if you would manage to get an official accreditation you will not be allowed to use the images for any other purpose then journalism.

Re: Was I mistaken? System VT in one photo Pano-Pro?

Many Thanks for the ***** advices.

Monopod Systems, meen to say, same photographs are making the panos w/ monopod instead of tripods.

Pedro

Re: Never this seller - 360 Precision !

Eirc,

Did you ever get the head delivered or the money returned?

Olympus Zuiko 8mm Fisheye & other E-System gear

Hello there,

I'm selling my remaining Olympus E-System Zuiko Digital Professional Lenses & E-3 D-SLR:

8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens
11-22mm f/2.8-3.5 wide-angle lens
14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 zoom lens
E-3 D-SLR camera body

Link to Amazon UK storefront:
www.amazon.co.uk/shops/A25I8X7QC1

Kind regards,
Peter

Re: How to do this??

Wow!!
Smooth you are really a great Experienced guy!
Great Thanks!!

Re: Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year from Hamburg / Germany

Marc

___________

www.vr-head.com

Re: Help me choose flow

Thanks

Re: Tripod quick release solutions

The annual migration of panoramic photographers finds a troop of them at a traditional resting point where they refresh themselves before continuing on to their Winter home...

Re: Confirmation needed: is this working on iphone?

DorinDXN said:

Hello again, if is not too much is anyone kind to confirm if this stitchless pano works on iphone/ipad?
www.livepanoramas.com/dorin/iphone/pano.html
I'm using Safari on Windows XP and I've set at Develop> User Agent > Safari iOS 4.3.3. iPad
also I deactivated plugins (and so flash isn't active)and look that is working in this environment, however I see some thin black lines between the cubfaces.

Kindly ask for a confirmation using a real iphone/ipad
1) it works?
2) if yes, are there the black thin lines between the cubefaces?

many thanks,
Dorin

Successfuly tested on iPhone 4s and iPad 2 by myself and works, though the code can be optimised for better experience. I'll do the optimising ASAP.

No need for feedback anymore.

Thanks and Happy New Year to you all
Dorin

Re: Happy Holidays

Here's a shot Ryan Seacrest just added, in preparation for the big celebration tomorrow night:
wri.st/26018

Cheers!

Charles (and the TourWrist Team)

Re: moving transition effect in fpp

i tried this one, but the results are not smooth as in the other players
thanks alot anyway

Re: Samyang 8mm AE Nikon

I still don't know if the original post was a question or a statement?

As I said, people are willing to help you with a workflow and how to use your camera (in English). If your not interested, no problem!

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Spheron Spherocam HDRI for sale

Hello -
I have an Spherocam that has been upgraded to HDRI for sale. It is in excellent condition, works beautifully, and comes with all accessories, including the calibrated 16mm lens, peli case, cables, batteries, program disks, mount and computer pad (no computer). All available for $18,000 OBO.

Re: Colour / color profile workflows

In my tests, sRGB images with an embedded profile display differently than untagged in various browsers.

Re: Nodal Ninja M1L and a lens ring mount.

Oh, OK. I wasn't factoring in the nadir adapter when I was viewing the image. Always easier to visualize when I have the hardware in my hand.

Yeah, remote on a stick! Bit like an airplane on a stick in the local park.

I'm with you on the hotshoe laser pointer. I've done a laser pointer in the tripod centre column (lower) some years ago.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: 40 reasons why you love Tourweaver7

Yes Tourweaver7 provide almost 20 new features that all virtual tour software not have ever include 3D object ,add online video and so on. Easypano not only surpass all other common competitors but also beyond our past .This chart shows that Easypano working hard to make progress every day .
Easypano always trying to provide the best features for all virtual tour friends.
Every day our developer are stepping foreward.
As soon as you try Tourweaver 7,you will know the powerful of it .
Please download : www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software.html

Re: Need Timed Pano Project help...

these are known as chrono-panos, krpano instructions here

www.maelbathfield.net/photo/krpano/ChronoPanorama...

and the wrestling pano (by andras freyno) mentioned earlier here -

www.panoramablog.com/index.php?entry=entry110726-...

sam

Re: Official Tourweaver7 Professional is released

Hi
We ahve test here for many computers and found that all works well include hotspot.

Probably,the reason is the software compatibility in some program.We are testing it. Because here all works very well ,our developer is hard to test the reason.So could you please send us your project file and published file.
We will try our best to found the reason and fix it.
Thank for your support for Tourweaver.
Merry Christmas and happy new year.
Best regards
Cheer

Re: 360° x 360° ???

In most pano publishing software you can specify how far you want to allow the user to pan up/down, left/right. Relaxing these limits or removing them allows for no stop rotational fun.

Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire

Works fine in the Dolphin browser on a rooted Nook Color with Android 2.3.5.

On XDA Developers is a whole section about the Amazon Kindle: forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1306

Re: Samyang 8mm 360 Pano Question

As Smooth says, it makes little difference. 6 shots does have a little more sharpness and tolerance for mistakes.

I personally use -15 down 6 around, and 2 zeniths at 70 degrees.

If I didn't mind a gap at the top and bottom, I would use 4 around at +10. I call this bargain basement mode.

Re: One shot lens virtual tour for sale

Sallut Thomas,

J´ai aussi achate um Panp-Pro en Octobre.

Je ne suis pas contente avec le resultat.

Votre vente a acune rellations avec le resultat de votres panoramas???
Joyeux Noel

Re: Smartblend Error

Yes, I also get an error on large panoramas (around 45000 pixels wide) at 8 bit.

Re: Christmas Came Early

Thanx Dorin

I just got a little something from the Realtor as a Stocking Stuffer;

A link to the story on the Wall Street Journal's website with 9 of my pics

online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529702044644045...

Sad thing is this was really down & dirty shoot because this was the Realtor's "pocket listing" at the time. So the work is not my best

Re: CS5 Issues between iMac and MacBook Pro

Jesse,

I can imagine the stress you had. I hate these things.

If you are registered, try this to find back your serial number:

What To Do If You've Lost Your Serial

If you have lost your serial number, you will need to contact customer support services at Adobe. They will instruct you on how to obtain a new one if possible. You will probably need to have proof of purchase, such as a scan of the UPC code on the box or a copy of your original receipt from the purchase.

If you are a registered Adobe site customer/user, and have purchased products or registered them on the Adobe site (something you should always do) then you can obtain your product serials from your Adobe online account. Login, go to your Account, and select Product Serial Numbers. For previous Macromedia customers, you will have to call Adobe for old serial numbers as they don't those online.

Read more: wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_serial_number_and_...

Once locked into your account you see "View Products registrations".

This will show you all your serial numbers. Print it and keep it in a safe place....

Sucess,
Heinz

BTW: you can download trials: www.PTGui.com for example.

Olympus Zuiko Digital Professional Lenses & Xerox Phaser 8560 Solid Inks for sale

Hello there,

I'm selling some of my Olympus E-System Zuiko Digital Professional Lenses:

50-200mm f/2.8 telephoto
11-22mm f/2.8 wide-angle

Also:
EC-20 x2.0 teleconverter
25mm f/2.8 pancake lens

Additionally, solid inks for Xerox Phaser 8560 printer.

Link to Amazon UK storefront:
www.amazon.co.uk/shops/A25I8X7QC1

Kind regards,
Peter

Re: which camera to outfit for pano?

gidget said:
"How's the snow in Wisconsin? (I'm from Michigan)"

You know it's really weird...we have no snow!! Only ice and piled up snow left over from a storm about a month ago. It's unseasonably warm and we are normally buried under at least 2 feet of snow by now. I'm wondering what we're in for! Last year was brutal...I can't wait to get back to the southwest. Are you from ABQ? Your profile says ABQ...I lived there a few years back and can't wait to get back!

Same here. I live in the High Sierras about 180 miles South of Reno, NV. NO SNOW! And usually there is about 5 feet of snow in my yard at this time.

Re: Virtual tours .co domains for sale

pm sent

Happy Holiday 2011

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Re: Noob Question about Correct Gear to Use

mediavets said:
Doug Aurand said:
Didn't say it wouln't work

But with a 15-20° tilt up and down, wouldn't the two rows be overlapping about 60%?

That seems like a lot of unnecessarily duplicated pixels on a lens as clear, sharp with as little falloff as the Nikkor 10.5mm
I shoot the lower row at about -15 and the upper row and about +50.

Andrew

You should only shoot 3 at the upper row for this.
I do it when I have for example windows with mosaics very high up in a church, but of course it depends on the lens and the aperture how much you actually win with it. At F11 my Canon 15mm is just as sharp at the corners as it is in center.

You should expect that the resolution of the corners from a fullframe fisheye is around 10% lower than the center. So if you want max resolution
this way is also an advantage.

Hans

Re: What is the normal KRpano Upload Size?

Actually you can not buy the viewer without the tools any longer.
I think that was removed more than a year ago.

If you have the old viewer license without tools you can upgrade

Hans

Re: Enfuse Layer Mask Question

jimmyd said:
I want to preface this by saying this question is purely curiosity on my part and in no way does this issue create any real problem.

I recently upgraded both my camera (20D to a 7D) and my PS (cs3 to cs5). Like many of you my workflow includes using Enfuse to blend my exposure sets. In the past, the output from Enfuse would contain an alpha channel that was handy because it saved me the step of adding one to mask out the tripod, etc. With my new set up I noticed on a test run that Enfuse outputed its merged shot without an alpha channel. What has changed?

Like I said, this changes nothing with my workflow aside from having to a press one button in CS5 to add a layer mask. I was just curious on why Enfuse would stop creating the alpha channel step with my new set up? My curiosity to have answers to things (mundane as they are) is getting the best of me!

Thanks gang...

J

Not sure if it is related to but were some complains (included some from mine) about the outputs from enfuse weren't able to be oppened by some other software for example DPP from Canon in my case so maybe somthing is changed in the default output settings, though can be forced as it was before via some params in command line.

cheers,
Dorin

Re: HDR Pano Problems

hindenhaag said:
Photomatix is used to deal with HDRI pictures, but not for masking out "ghosts".

See tinyurl.com/3n6v8h

John is the expert for Hugin. And I am quite sure he follows this discussion and will help you.

I'm afraid I wouldn't claim to be a Hugin expert and I don't use HDR programs such Photomatix. I do bracket shots, however, and produce LDR panoramas with them. Most of the main part of the scene (excluding sky) can often be covered adequately with the 0ev set alone. Problems caused by movement of large objects such as vehicles in street scenes can be dealt with by shooting with a reasonably wide angle lens and allowing a good overlap. Don't restrict yourself to the preset detent positions but be prepared to adopt an intermediate position if that gives better coverage of a difficult area all in one shot. Consider using the camera in landscape orientation to get the maximum horizontal fov. You can easily stitch images shot in mixed orientations if necessary, using masks to preserve whole vehicles. And of course you can resort to merging images in Photoshop using layer masks. The more images you have to play with, the better.

John

Re: Need Post Help

After far too much fiddling about, I got this result, but really it isn't the way to go:

John

Re: Photographer needed in Singapore

Hi, I'm keen.

All my works can be found at my website www.SingaporeVR.com

I can be reached at

email: aram.pan@singaporevr.com

Need Photographer in Los Angeles/Thousand Oaks California

Need Photographer in Los Angeles/Thousand Oaks California for first or second week of January to shoot 15-20 panos. If anyone is interested please email me with your current/past work done wk@lightscamerapixels.com

Last brand new Roundshot VR Drive Speed (type 1) for sale

We've got the last one NOS (new old stock) Roundshot VR Drive Speed (type 1) for sale. Complete with invoice and warranty. We are Seitz Roundhot and ALPA dealer.
cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180778...:MESE:IT

Re: VRsmarty panorama player is out

I don't know Pat, I think people forget how much they depend on flash now, if flash were taken away now all panorama creators would wake up with nothing to offer their customers, in my opinion in 3 years time phones and pads will be so advanced and fast that mobile os will die, we all would like a normal os on these machines anyway. I think that panoramas and html5 just don't much, there is always one best tool for a job, html5 is definitely not the right tool for panos. If people are not interested in vrsmarty I'll just drop the project, pity, as you know well - vrsmarty just bits everything else on many fields.

CARMEL, CALIFORNIA

Looking for pano photographer in Carmel, California.

Re: Chromatic abberation correction

Thanks, I will look into it.

Re: Samyang 8mm with Canon Rebel T3i / EOS 600D

Hi, this is my 1st post here, so please forgive any errors. I began with with these panos just a few months back and wish I had seen this info sooner.
If it helps any other beginners (my set up; Nodal Ninja 3 mkII or is it NN4, I never know the difference, Canon 550d, Samyang 8mm Fisheye, CP-2 Plate and PT Gui.
I just shoot 6 around @ 60, and for my purposes I don't have need of either the Nadir or Zenith shots. Having done a NPP test along the lines of the 'upright poles', I found the best rail settings to achieve the least variation of control points in PTGui to be 51mm Lower Rail and 91mm Upper Rail. The 91mm being measured by the white line beneath the CP-2 Plate. Tony

Re: New to 360 degree photography

Hey Doug,
Just wanted to say thanks for all the input.
I know those guys have their own ways but i know you know what I'm really looking to do.

pano2vr: Make 1 full spin after loading?

This is a copy of a post I made on the p2vr forum, since usually I get faster reactions here and I'm in a bit of a hurry:

I have a pano starting at position 268/-23/60 and I want it to make a 360 degree spin after loading. So I tried 'Loaded' '268/-23/60' which doesn't do anything probably because it's already there.
I tried 'Loaded' '269/-23/60', that makes it move slightly contra-clockwise.
And I tried 'Loaded' '267/-23/60' and that makes it move a little clockwise. So what do I do to make this work?

Is there for example a way to move to view 269/-23/60 and tell p2vr to go clockwise?

Thanks,
Ronald

Re: 9 New Fanotec Precision Camera Plates Dedicated for Panoramic Photographers

Overview of the new Fanotec Camera Plates:

homepage.mac.com/hindenhaag/filechute/New%20Fanot...

These are the NIKON Plates: D70, D70s: U2

D80, D90, D100, D200, D300/s, D700, D7000: U3

D1x: U3G

D3: there will be a new plate around Jan 2012, at the moment use U1G

I will try to test the new plates for D3100, D5100, at the moment with not too heavy lenses you can use U1

Heinz

Re: panorama

A few explanatory details would be welcome - e.g. where, using what equipment, how stitched. The exposure has been nicely judged but there are obvious stitching errors in the middle, and the panorama would benefit from being levelled to get the horizon straight and the verticals properly vertical. See: www.johnhpanos.com/levtut.htm

John

Re: Spherical Panoramas from a Backpackers Journey Through South America!

Wow, I must say that I really like your panos! Great colors, very great stitch, keep it up!

Another thing I really like is the ''intro'' to them, how it comes from the ''heart style', and brings you into the pano. Can you share more info on that, I'd love to try this out!

Thanks

Re: the math behind mapping a sphere to cube faces

Charles Fletcher said:
I do not see why there would be any difference mapping onto cubes inside or outside the image sphere as all the projecting rays are from the centre/origin. Just a different scale.

The mapping function from equirectangular to the central cube face I derived:

X-> (Scale Factor) x tan( X x 180 / N )[ |X|< N/4 ], same for Y

This is for equirectangular size N x 2N, centred on the origin.

Charles

You will have to find out for yourself. Implement a mapping both ways and inspect the results...

Re: Problems with people in panos

Hi,

may be you already know it:

hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/Blend-masks/en.sh...

groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/search?group=hu...

Heinz

BTW: Did you have the chance to place different people in different "Click Stops" while taking around the stops taking the panorama?

Re: Pano in The Guardian

Hi Judy,
"Maybe the photographer wants to mimic . . . "

I can only think that he was mimicking how a bad panoramic photographer would produce a pano, or mimicking how a drunk might see the cathedral interior.

John W.
"I'd like to hear what the more creative people in this forum think about it."

Are you implying that the people who are not impressed by this wobbly pano lack creativity?

Re: problems with smartblend in PTgui

Ramiro Posada said:
I need advice to avoid banding in flat cloudless blue skies, when I work with cube faces I tried to make the zenith heavier but everything has been unsuccessful

Banding is best avoided by working with 16bit tiff files generated from RAW camera image files. Even if you have only jpeg shots to play with, it will help if you process to 16bit files. As has already been recommended, you can make life easier by giving all the shots exactly the same shutter speed, aperture, focus and white balance settings - i.e. avoid all auto settings, including those available in RAW processing. That should minimize the adjustments needed to match the images.

If you don't get satisfactory results from PTGui Pro's automatic exposure and colour adjustment option, you can always make manual brightness adjustments by tweaking the values of the exposure offset parameters on the Image Parameters tab. Do this with the No Blend mode selected on the Panorama Editor window, so that the seams are sharp edged for clarity. Then switch into Blended mode to see the final effect.

John

Looking for Photographers in Miami & Thousand Oaks California

Hi,

Within the month or so I will be in need of Pano photographer in Miami.

If you are interested in a gig (could be 1 day could be multiple days) please email me at wk@lightscamerapixels.com - Please include: The city where you shoot, and an example of your work. All we are looking for is panos - no template work, stitching and or skin work needed. Just photography. I will reply with details about project and pay if there is interest.

Thank you everyone!

Re: image processing and hdr issues

basicly i want to do real esataes and business like hotels and restuarants. i am just trying to know what is the best way to make a virtual tour with reasonble loading time and high quality, hoping to get some advise on this issue
thanks a lot for your advise
uv

Re: 360Cities live in Nokia Maps in 81 countries

Gongrats Jeffrey!
Is indeed a big step forward.

Thanks,
Dorin

Re: ugly

Both, high power lines are believed to have started the initial fire, extremely high winds and lack of timely human response created a fire storm that burned for a couple of weeks. Texas became a fire box over the last two years of extreme drought. Many of the trees burned were already dead.

Climate change is turning most of Texas into a desert. If current long term forecast are right the 2 year extreme drought will become 10 years and Texas will become the 7th largest desert in the world.

Not a pretty picture at all. Do something today to cut your carbon emissions. I've cut my auto use in half over the last year by just combining trips and shopping online.

More to do, more trips to not do

Re: Gather 'Round Your Troops for the Holidays

Here are some more of my 360º holiday greetings for the troops with nearly 20,000 views (combined):

www.tourwrist.com/tours/24883 (4,782 views as of 12/14/11)
www.tourwrist.com/tours/24879 (4,305 views as of 12/14/11)
www.tourwrist.com/tours/23932 (10,741 views as of 12/14/11)

I hope my panos inspire you to create 360º greetings for your troops 'round the globe.

To get started, simply makes some signs for your group and set up a TourWrist (totally free) account:
tools.tourwrist.com/hosting_features

Happy Holidays,

Dan
tourwrist.com/photographers?id=66

Re: New to Panos, need equipment help

Jeramy said:
Hans Nyberg said:

Why do you believe that an automated head would give you better stitching quality.

Hans

Hans,

Based on what I've read, with the Panogear head using Papywizard and Autopano, it relies far more on the XML file used to set up the photos. The stitching software knows where each photo was taken from and can link much easier.

Am I wrong?

You still have to generate controlpoints for exact placement.

With PTgui this is just as simple. You just make a template for your setup once and for all and apply that for each pano.
You can than use that to batch large batches of panoramas.

Hans

Nodal Ninja 5 Lite for sale

Excellent condition
Includes panorama head,Nadir adapter,four detent rings, two rail stops,hard case, quick start manual
the detent rings are 45-60,90-120,10-20 and 20-24
$275.00 plus shipping

Reason for selling. I've upgraded to the Nodal Ninja Ultimate L head with the RD 16 rotator. I will be glad to email a photo to those interested buyers.
Thanks
John

Re: 5D MK2 & Canon 15mm Fisheye

Thanks John, now it makes sense!

Re: Jasper Dunes, Jasper National Park, Canada

Hi Dennis,

Yes, I agree that HDR is a bit overcooked on this series. I looked up my settings, and they’re similar to those I usually use for landscape images. However, the bright sand and sky have reacted a bit differently than my usual subject matter.

I don’t subscribe to the theory that every photograph has to look ‘natural’. Impressionistic treatments can be part of any creative photographer’s toolbox.

Judy

Re: Samyang 7.5mm Fisheye - New Nodal Ninja Lens Ring

How many panos can one expect to make in a vocation trip

While on vacation I might shoot between 10 to 20 panoramas a day or more. That is because I have my monopod pano gear and workflow dialed in. It takes moments to capture a scene.

I have no desire to use batch processing. I like to relive all the memories associated with each and every pano by processing each one, one at a time. I actually enjoy the stitching process. Getting a difficult capture to stitch properly, removing all traces of object movement at each seam and most importantly: patching the Nadir removing all seams and such are all aspects of creating a pano that I enjoy. Panos with people in them provide the most satisfaction when you cannot see any traces of where the seams are. The payoff is a panorama that looks like it was captured all at once. It also helps if the panorama takes the viewer to a place they would otherwise never visit or causes the viewer to have an emotional response.

I enjoy analyzing my workflow looking for ways to improve. It might mean making a bracket or complete pano head from scratch. Nothing like the sense of accomplishment when you can produce a pano with hardware that you have created yourself.

Re: Gather "Round your Troops for the Holidays" VR's

Visit tourwrist.com/ today to see all the featured Troops tour of the day. Search the keyword "Troops" to see more.

Photographer wanted SE England

I have been approached to cost up a panorama music-education project that will involve a well-taken shoot including video, and between 6 and 10 panoramas.

This will be in the UK. Obviously, it will cost far too much to import me from Norway, and am looking for someone, preferably East Anglia based, who will be interested in shooting in a "relatively" easy situation bracketed RAW images.

I will take care of processing and developing the site further. Since the funding is, possibly, coming from an official source, I cannot say more about the project until the funding is in place. What I would like to hear from photographers is their daily rate, and a link to some examples of their work.

As I have said, this is all tentative at the moment, but I will, hopefully, be able to say more in the coming weeks.

Please PM me if you are capable and interested.

Thanks,

Jon

Re: sigma 8mm canon Mount + NEX 5 + ????? ADAPTOR ???

Binny,

You still do not have it. The tile on the ground and posts close to the camera look ok, but the distant objects are still blurred.

When you are doing your focus test, make sure you have objects close up with lots of detail and objects far away with detail. I put a newspaper on the ground. It is amazing to see the point at which you can no longer read the print. Make sure there is a fence or something like that far off so you can test the distance focus. A Chain linked fences work great for this.

Keep at it. Make sure you evaluate objects both close up and far away. I have several panoramas where the grass under the pano head is tack sharp while an airplane at several thousand feet up is also in tack sharp focus.

Dennis

Re: Adapting Samyng 8mm for Minolta/Sony to Canon full frame camera?

Note that Minolta MD is old manual focus mount and is different from Minolta AF/ Sony Alpha mount.
In both cases, Minolta to Canon requires an adapter that needs optics to compensate for extra thickness.
if you shave the Samyang 8mm and use it on a full frame camera, Nodal Ninja R1/10 pano head is a great choice.

Nick

Carrying Cases for Nodal Ninja Ultimate M1L and M1S are Now Available

Fanotec is proud to announce the arrival of carrying cases for Nodal Ninja Ultimate M1L and M1S. These hard cases have flexible partitions to protect the individual components from bumping into each other.

The case for M1L can hold 2 MFR-210 long rails and extra accessories such as nadir adapter and QRC-40B. It is even big enough to hold the future M2 model.

The case for M1S is a bit smaller. It can hold M1S or M1L with basic components and a nadir adapter only.

Both cases have an introductory price of $29.95. Recommended retail prices for them are $39.95.
The case will be included in M1L and M1S packages free of charge.

At the same time the camera plate will be an optional item. Customers can buy from our new camera plates or 3rd party Arca Swiss Compatible camera plates or L-brackets.

Nick

Re: Sony NEX 5N + Samyang 8mm on Nodal Ninja R10: Uptilt for closed zenith, lens ring

Nick Fan said:
If they don't do so in a few months, I will try to make a Nex replacement mount for the 7.5mm MFT version.

That is a sensible solution Nick. All you need is a purposely designed/machined back mount straight to NEX E Mount (no biggy!) and have a new plastic sun hood made to replace the M43 version.

Offer it out as a kit or exchange basis. End plate, Sunhood, Lens Ring and simple instructions.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Samyang 7.5mm MFT Nomad Panohead

Re: I need help with Hugin.

It's not possible to say what has gone wrong without more information about the project. The stitching process consists of:

1. Input the images.
2. Set the lens parameters.
3. Assign control points on identical (and stationary) features in overlapping images (either manually or automatically).
4. Run the optimizer to align the images.
5. Position the panorama in the output area and adjust the field of view.
6. Generate the output file.

When things go awry, it is usually because of faulty control points placement. Check that points are accurately positioned only on fixed identical features (not clouds or water or other objects liable to move between shots). Have control points only between immediate neighbours - i.e. between images 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 etc, but not 1-3.

See this tutorial: www.lightspacewater.net/Tutorials/PhotoPano1/Phot...

If all else fails, parcel up copies of the image files (half size medium quality jpegs will do) and Hugin project file in a zip file and upload it somewhere so that it can be investigated.

John

Re: Problem with latest messages across all forums...

An upgrade of the forum software to www.vbulletin.com wouldn't be a bad idea....

Re: Holkham Nature Park, Uk

Thank you very much for comments!

I absolutely agree with you about color balance It was my first 360 panorama, so I just put them in one tour. I also do first steps develop interface, so I will re-adjust pixel size.

Once again thank you for so useful comments !

Re: Syborg Rooms and Architect

These edges can be reduced to great effect. There's a setting in the editor tool called segments. If you put this higher up the edges go away.

Re: Pano2Movie 2.2 beta

2.2 build 83 is now out, fixing some export bugs:

pano2movie.com/download

Re: Photography needed in Mexico City

Hi mr. Jason,
is there any special condition you needed from a photographer that you are looking for?
is it deferent what nationality photographer for you?
may i know more about that job...?
Thanks
Arash

a tour using VRSmarty

sorry, it is in polish
the tour shows the functionality of the new player

I hope you like it: vrsmarty.com/podkotelnica/

Darek

Re: Panoramic head

I would seriously get that spot on the back of your head checked!

Seriously..

Morten

Re: Old stuff regurgitated

Thanks for the comments, Judy and Morten (a good Scandinavian name if one ever existed). I am generally unhappy with the photos themselves, but they were difficult to take and even harder to process.

I thought Flashificator was, I have to say, the most dreadful program/GUI I have ever tried to learn. The reason for that was that I was thinking in terms of Pano2VR. Once I sat down with Trausti and he talked me through the basics, and explained how the logistics work, I found it a terribly easy program to come to terms with.

The beauty of it all is not just in the way that it publishes the finished panorama in whatever format you want, or even the way in which eveything can be scaled (how many times have we had to resize images in Pano2VR?), but it is that you can record a series of events, each one acting as the "Done Function" of the previous. In other words, the opening "help" animations were a series of about 30 different stages (functions), each taking over from the last. Hence the manner in which the animation works. It takes time, and a lot of planning on paper, but it is worth it. Those particular animations took about 5 hours to create and a day tinkering with to make sure it all worked nicely.

I have to hand it to Trausti. After a couple of years with him waiting for me to start using FFC, and after a few aborted attempts when I understood nothing and was scared by the learning curve, he patiently encouraged me to give it another, and then another try. I wish I had started using it sooner.

The documentation has got better as well, which is helpful; not only in learning the basics, but also in developing a few lateral-thinking techniques, which can be called into play with FFC.

I've told Trausti that, at sometime in the near future I am going to buy FFC again. I think it is worth thatt much.

Jon

A sample made by Tourweaver7 beta

hi

www.easypano.com/Virtual-tour-software-tw7.html
Open this page and click the video icon in the right of the tourweaver7 beta box , you can see a sample made by Tourweaver7 beta.
In this sample , there is a 3D object and some other new features in tourweaver7.
There is a cute moving dog in it .It is pretty lovely!
Even you have no idea about flash ,java code ,html5 ,you can makde it by tourweaver7 beta very easily.

Any suggestion is appreciated!

Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell

Ladad,

A really fantastic panorama and I'm sure very time consuming photoshopping once home but like others I found the bright window pretty jarring, spoiling an otherwise great experience. Well you understood this when you said:

I must admit that I do not like the window! I tried multple renderings but there is a time where enough time was spent and it was time to move on!

But another five or ten minutes simply with select tool and levels would have made all the difference

Of course you would have taken a bit more care than I did
especially when removing the label (probably best left alone in any case) but then I'm just jealous, understandably

Mark

Re: best lense for canon 5d mkII

rzwart2 said:
Yes Smooth, I know you gave some tips earlier. Thank you for your help. You also used my files but with a much better result. What did you do? Did you only add CP's and optimise?

Yes, I added extra control points manually along the full length of the seam on each overlapping image pair, deleted some automatically placed control points and repositioned some of automatically placed control points re-optimizing as a went through them until I had the desired result.

There is not a lot of reason to optimize this well unless you are setting up a template for repeated use. In this case I wouldn't bother as the panohead isn't set up very well and is unlikely to be the same next time.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: [HOW-TO] Panoramas 360x180 with iPhone fisheye

@DennisS : You make my day ! :--)

…with the Pixeet fisheye it's possible to make easily a 4+2 panorama. It's really not bad.
(read: "not bad" for a smartphone, "not bad" for a so small CMOS, "not bad" for a so small lens, etc, etc)

Their app is also a good way for a first step in the pano world without DSLR and without computer.

=> test pano, 4+2, Pixeet fisheye: fromparis.com/panoramas_quicktime_vr/iphone_fishe...

=> blabla & test files at the bottom of the page: fromparis.com/technical/iphone-fisheye-unexpensiv...

Re: Help with time and cost assessment

Hi Trausti,

Thanks for the reply. Although our clients are not expecting the highest quality panoramic images, we certainly don't want to waste money by supplying them with glorified door-stoppers. But given the variety of single-shot products out there, they must be good for something, so who IS using them?

At this point (and with little background knowledge) many of my colleagues would be content with images on par with Google Street View, even at it's low resolution. For our clients, this service would be complementary to our service, which is to promote their business via our web services, and they are not expecting photography so any image (regardless of quality) is a bonus for them.

After doing a bit more research it seems like equipment/software costs between methods are comparable, especially considering any photographer we hire is likely to have a camera, tripod, and Photoshop already. I guess the better question to pose to this forum is what it would cost us in time and labor to produce high quality panos? From capture to finished product with a seasoned pano photographer, how many hours does it take to produce a set of images to make 2-3 VR images? What can I expect a freelance photographer with this skill set to charge? Any freelance photographers out there that can give me their hourly rates?

Thanks again,

Moni

Re: About phones and flash panos

True, but we can hope things will change on that front as hardware gets better in phone-land.

Re: A pano that goes from Day to Night....

Made with FPP. Changes automatically.
www.ormar.info/pano/tallinn/trepp/index.html

FS: Sigma 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye [Canon]

For Sale: Sigma 8mm f/3.5 EX Circular Fisheye Lens for Canon SLR

The lens is in excellent condition. $675 including shipping for USA residents.

Larger image www.flickr.com/photos/philwarner/4958431678/sizes...

Phil

Re: For Sale | self-standing ‘inverted’ Manfrotto Monopod bespoke set-up with NN3

now sold

Novoflex Panorama VR-System (original single axis) - parts for sale

Hello there,

Added today to my listings, Novoflex items:

Castel-Q focusing rack (can also be used for macro work)
QPL-Vertikal L-bracket
Panorama Plate

Originally part of the Novoflex Panorama VR-System.

Bought together, they form a complete rotating single-axis panorama system. Please note that this system is not suitable for full 360x180 degree virtual tour work which requires dual-axis equipment.

Link to Amazon UK storefront:
www.amazon.co.uk/shops/A25I8X7QC1

Kind regards,
Peter

FS: 303SPH + leveling base $500/obo

Hello,

I bought this with the intention of doing spherical panoramas for IBL for 3d work. However, I just recently got rid of my whole dslr system and have been shooting with medium format rangefinder and am now trying to fund getting a new lens for my mamiya 7.

So, I've got the manfrotto 303SPH + leveling base

I know I am new here, so if you need to look me up
my ebay SN is: redxtreem
Or for what it's worth my own personal website is
www.dondecastro.com

Re: For Sale Brand NEW, Sealed, Nodal Ninja Ultimate M1-L

The Nodal Ninja Ulitmate M1-L with RD16 is sold

Re: Rodeon VR HEAD CL

Hi Jon,

Norway is now in the list of places to ship.

Phil

Re: For Sales - Autopano Giga 2.5 and Pano2VR Licenses

hi
wonder if this is still available?
what's your Pano2VR version?

cheers!
Joy

Re: FS (EU): 360Precision Giga, Gitzo giant, Canon 90mm TS-E

Let's update the pricing a little bit:

For those outside EU, asking 520 euros
If you're a private buyer residing in the EU, 639,60 euros (inc. VAT 23 %)
If you're an EU business with a valid VAT number, 520 euros

Hope I got it right.

Would like to point out that the head is virtually unused.

Some clarification:

I first had in mind selling within the EU only (see topic). That's why I mentioned about the VAT (important if you're a VAT-registered company
I don't know about elsewhere, but where I live most photographers (me too) are VAT-registered and thus eligible for deduction. Sorry for any confusion.

Panosaurus Rex Panoramic Tripod Head - £59.99

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110748951401?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_1413

Re: Tour Wrist realty solution for $19 000

Does the code match the spec? YES. Pay me now. Wait, my intent was this..... but you delivered that. Why did you do what I told you to do and not what I wanted you to do?

Been there, done that. Been on both sides. Unless the programmer is an employee or a close friend, quality control is very difficult. That is why I write all my own software.

Re: automatic or manual?

Keeping exposure (Shutter-speed, Aperture, Iso) for all the photos the same is very important!

As I shoot in raw, my white-balance is always on auto and will be adjusted (same for all images) during processing in ACR.
When you shoot in jpg it is advisable to also set the white-balance to manual though.

Re: Carrying Cases for Fanotec Pole Series 1 and 2

Hi Jon,

Glad it works out for you finally.
We do make mistakes either in shipping or product recommendations. Talk to us and we will sort out the issues. If you are doubtful of a recommendation/ reply from a reseller, use our NN.com forum, where the NN Developer (I) and many resellers participate actively.

Enjoy our products.

Nick

Re: Hi From Margaret River, Western Australia

Devastating, especially if you are owner of one of those homes. Seems like the more we try to prevent brush fires, the drier the brush gets, so when they go, they go big.

Part of nature though, the fire will expose the seeds and it'll all be grown back in a few years.

Nice panos and nicely displayed Mike. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Links in Panos

Lorne,

So long as you got your result and you know I wasn't making you pee into the wind with my instructions.

All good mate!

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Down time?

I hate this time of year, I am one of those folks who are happiest when busy. While I do like some time off, I would like it in the summer! living in Vancouver we do not really get winter, just rain. Makes it hard to shoot for fun. Once January 2nd hits I am back to busy for the season.

Speaking of gaming I have been playing TF2 www.teamfortress.com and now its free for anyone, we should have a panoguide team

Have fun
Dylan

Re: r1 nadir adapter tutorial

Hello Heinz,

Thank you I have been testing for 2 days but have yet successfull..

I will keep trying until I get it

regards,

Binny

Re: Rail setting request: Canon 7D/NN3 MKII/ 8mm 3.5

Hi James,

try 87mm for URS = Upper Rail Setting like John suggested L1 + L2 from wikidatabase.

To get your LRS = Lower rail setting you have to add the "offset of the Panohead from bottom of camera body to reference point of the foot of the lower rail. This adds around 13mm. Try 55mm for LRS with Smooth's Circle saw method. When the tooth cuts to the right, move the camera to the right on the lower rail by 1mm, if it cuts to the left, move to the left.

Like Smooth I always state: test this with your own equipment with the links Smooth mentioned.

Regards,
Heinz

Re: new camera for pano rig advice

Hey gang,

So I pulled the trigger and opted for the Canon 7D on 'cyber monday'. I got the US warranty version for $1299 which is about $200 cheaper than I saw anywhere else. Free shipping and a bunch of freebies as well.

In the end I figured the $400-$500 more (as compared to the 60D) the 7D was worth the coin in the long run. If not for the better camera build it seems the 7D has a more user friendly button set up and seems to be the true upgrade from the 50D. Now hopefully it won't be selling for $1000 in 3 weeks!!

Thanks Heinz for your advice. One last question, do have a recommendation for a good battery supplier? I used to use Diamondback Battery but they don't seem to have the 7D/60D/5DII equivelent battery in stock. I try to stay away from the direct camera stores for batteries, cables, etc because they notorious for excessive mark ups.

Cheers,

James

Re: samyang 7,5 m.m. specifications

I eventually had to drill holes into the adapter and screw it directly onto the lens because the pin wore out and the lens kept falling out of the camera when I had the camera hung around my neck with the panohead and monopod attached.

I was only able to get two screws to attach because the 3rd screw overlapped the gap where the pin is.

I've finished the panohead design.

Re: Please help with calibration

Judy,

It's nice to get to know there's still the child in you using lego blocks. But may be because of this you are able to shoot such great panos to get the sensitivity for the moment, free for everything like a child.

Thx for the tip, I like your panos very much, thx for all your inputs.

Kind regards,
Heinz

Re: Rare reaction of the forum

Thx for answer Smooth.

Regards,
Heinz

Re: 360 x 180 degree panorama on Canon 5d Mark Ii

Hi,

Some links to check what you have to do with a certain lens: to check the number of shots around plus you see VFov and HVof:

www.frankvanderpol.nl/fov_pan_calc.htm

for the pano:

www.vrwave.com/panoramic-lens-database/canon/

This should help you around your question if you think of other lenses.

Once again, I would not buy a new manfrotto panohead right now. If you already have one or can get it for nothing, you could only try the uncomfortable way to loosen the camera mounting screw, set some marks on the L-Clamp for special degree settings for example +60º/+90º. After having done your shots around, loosen the camera mounting screw, set your camera to the new pitch, fasten and take for example your zenith shot. Other way round for the Nadir.

I think it should work that way to use the 303 for 360x180 pano. Just try it. If it works for you be sure you camera is brought back to 90º position of lens axis to the vertical Clamp Part for the next set of shots around.

Regards,
Heinz

BTW: It should help us a lot to answer questions when we know in which country users live. Helps a lot for advice if we know you can find a shop for "everything" around the corner. Or if there is only one dealer in the middle of now-where, with a restricted assortment of "Coca Cola, Red Bull and nothing else".

Re: Photographers needed for 360° shots of America for tourist guides (french publisher))

panoramiques360 said:
... we found our photographers on Flickr.

Lovely

Re: Naranjo de Bulnes west wall (Samyang 7,5 m.m.)

Pretty much anywhere there is a finger grip or a small hole shows CA. So very easily adjusted out during the RAW conversion.

I shall check out those areas in Yosemite. Thanks for the advice.

Re: Google bikes thru the Detroit Zoo, creates crappy panoramas

That must be the worst stitching errors ever achieved hehehe.
Feel sorry for the girl in red t-shirt, she got her legs completely cut!
Thats probably why Google blurs the people's faces, to prevent people complaining that they got mutilated

Re: not really

I've tried it since on iPad, pretty disappointing to be honest. It's very unnatural to move the ipad around to change the viewpoint!
Gus

Re: Which monopod?

Gary,

Unless the ground below you is absolutely level, having 3 smaller legs under you might not work out too well. I have never tried a self standing monopod before.

If you have not already, check out my latest round of monopod panoramas. All were shot 4 around tilted up 5 degrees with a hand held Nadir patch shot.

www.dlsphoto.net/FallColors2011/FallColors2011.htm

Maybe someone out there who has experience with one of these free standing monopods can provide an informed opinion?

Don't be afraid to start a new trend. If your results are good, others will follow (including myself).

Dennis

Re: Samyang 7.5mm = Rokinon 7.5mm

DennisS said:
DemonDuck

This may be an obvious statement, but the 7.5mm is a different lens than the 8mm.

Your email is the same email I recieved. They are working on an 8mm (not 7.5mm) lens. I pointed out to the tech I was communicating with that the lens needs to be a 180 vertical view, not 180 diagonal. Otherwise you are most likely not improving on what Sony already has available for the NEX-5 (Sony 2.8 16mm lens + Sony VCL-ECF1 fisheye adapter).

I completly agree with Smooth that if the view is 180 diagonal, it is of little use and does not improve on what I already have. My Sigma 8mm + adapter + NEX-5 camera is a great combination that easily fits in my pack for a walk or bike ride.

Dennis

Time will tell...

I bought one of the VCL-ECF1 and now I'm looking for a 16mm to put it on. Maybe that's all I need once I get the CA correction figured out.

Re: Is a Sigma 4.5mm circular fisheye worth the trouble.?

DemonDuck,

That is a very interesting idea. Purchase an expensive 20+mp and put a lens that uses only the middle section of the sensor in an attempt to shoot only 3 around instead of 4.

If you do not already have a fisheye, I cast my vote for the Sigma 8mm. I have yet to 100% embrace the Samyang 7.5mm lens. Too much testing yet to do.

Tokina is finally produces a lens without the hood. It would be very nice if Samyang would produce the 7.5 for the NEX without changing anything but the lens mount.

Dennis

Re: 1° International Photo Contest

Friends of the forum,

I want to be clear that my suggestion to GM Photoes that they use the Commercial Announce forum was not an endorsement of their campaign. I would also agree that their presentation leaves much to be desired. But most of all, I regret to see that the feedback in this thread has taken the form of ridicule. Sometimes people launch campaigns using the wrong model, they make typos in their materials, they lack the professionalism that others would expect, etc. Frankly, this happens all the time, but when it does, I ask that you consider whether your comments are constructive.

Respectfully,
Charles

Re: carbon fiber mast - 7 metres-Alternative 6.5m

B.I.G www.alles-foto.de has an Exel named Highpole
called XXXL-monopod. 6.5m Its a monopole and base if needed. 2,2+2.1 kg= 4.3kg
K97422-3 1850 chf(because i have it from their swiss representative.
monopod 425842-5 150-650cm carbon 1287 chf
tripod-base fiberbase 100cm 643 chf

Alternatively there is a 120-300cm monopod XXL by B.I.G 321 chf
Its Duopod Footpedal Major is excessively expensive at 305 CHF.
Maybe we can it cheaper from HK? I would need one for my 20 usd- 4m-pole.

Re: Girocam not so good-Alternatives

Isnt there a similarly looking alternative? And there must be a cigar-like cam with five? lenses? There is a youtube-video but i lost the link. Fiero of devalvr is also still?working on his 360 cam.
Btw: at the london olympics they want to install 360-cams!

Re: Samyang updates 8mm F3.5 fisheye with CPU for Nikon

DennisS said:
Will it be an improvement for pano photography since everything is usually set to manual anyway?

The limitations of a manual lens are by no means insurmountable.

A manual lens on cameras without a manual exposure scale, such as the the Nikon D5000, require trial and error shots or external light meter to determine exposure. Finding the correct exposure would be much quicker with an electronic lens. Speed can be crucial in scenes with wide dynamic range or quickly changing light.

With the manual lens, lens type and aperture are not recorded in EXIF.

Exposure value in EXIF is valuable when doing test shots. For example, with my manual lens, when testing night shots or trying to determine sharpness, star flare or motion blur, I have to tediously manually record aperture. When reviewing older images, I never know what aperture was used.

Some software features will not work if EXIF is incomplete. For example Autopano Giga’s HDR exposure fusion won’t work without exposure settings in EXIF, and it doesn’t allow manual entry of exposure values. I haven’t tried PTGui’s exposure fusion.

With my manual lens I always have to manually specify the fisheye lens type in stitching software.

The new electronic Samyang will not autofocus, which is not problem with this lens. A single focal length works for virtually all subject matter beyond about a meter.

Judy

Re: Panorama Distortion Correction?

Thanks mediavets, that info helped to explain a lot about how to shoot them.

Thanks jannefoo, I was able to get similar results with PTGui with a click of the mouse......I think my computer may have glitched because I had gone through the PTGui presets before, who knows

Re: How to play panos continuesly (5-6 panos in website)

vederepanoraica said:
stalwart , your's panoramas are beautiful . Can you tell me your setup ?(camrea, lens, software)
Cheers

Hi,

This tour was taken with my 'standard' work set up - nothing special: Canon 550D, Sigma 8mm, NN Ultimate R1 & EZ Leveller...

Stu

Re: Hi Guys! From South America!

Heinz thx forn yours answer, rally thx, ill read and study this info and ill contact again, let me see!

how to unlock "panorama mode" in iphone 4s / 4 without jailbreak

i made a video showing how to unlock the "panorama mode" in iOS 5.0.0 / 5.0.1 on iphone 4 / 4s (and ipod touch, and ipad 2)

no jailbreak necessary - it's really easy!

as this feature is not public, it's no surprise that it's not great, and probably not finished.

blog.360cities.net/iphone-panorama/

Re: photoshop help on pano please

There isn't a quick fix for this sort of problem, and it's more difficult than appears at first sight. In addition to brightness differences, there are also small differences in white balance in some shots, and there is uncorrected roll of the camera that has resulted in a sawtooth effect on the line of the clouds. It will take an hour or so to select and adjust selected parts of the image with the exposure tool and hue/saturation. It helps if you add a temporary curves adjustment layer that increases the contrast so that brightness differences are exaggerated. Using the spot healing brush on the remaining seam lines will tidy things up. I didn't attempt to correct the roll of the images, but got a reasonable result otherwise:

John

Re: Indoor 360 Feedback

Sparkybp said:
If I shoot a complete 360*180 including the zenith and nadir would I be able to select spherical projection instead, directly out of the stitching program?

You could/can select spherical/equirectangular 360x180 projection even without the zenith and nadir shots. Simply type in via Panorama Settings (Tab)>Equirectangular Projection>Fov: 360° (horizontal) 180° (vertical). Regardless of how much of the sphere is covered (as far as images) the canvas will be 360x180 directly from PTGui.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Panosaurus 2.0 available and probably an improvement over 1.0

I was considering purchase of a Nodal Ninja, and by chance came across that the Panosaurus 2.0 is now available.

Mmmmm, where to start.

If you are considering any pano head from Nodal Ninja, you will get a much better built and supported product than anything that will ever come from Panosaurus. NN products are in a completly different class that anything from Panosaurus will ever hope to be. Bill and Nick would never tell you to "mind your own business" when you make suggestions. Nodal Ninja's motto is "We listen. We try harder." When you purchase from Nodal Ninja, you really do get what you pay for. Do yourself a big favor and "step away from the Panosaurus."

Re: HDR panoramic photoshop transform tool issue.

Hi,

John's homepage is one of the favorites.

www.johnhpanos.com/tuts.htm

groups.google.com/group/ptgui

Heinz

For Sale - Pano Pro w/ Adapter DSLR VS

Gently used Pano Pro MKII One-Shot panorama Lens. Includes the Universal Adapter DSLR VS. Selling because I have upgraded to a fisheye and pano head and no longer use it.

Asking $500 USD.

Available on Ebay here:
www.ebay.com/itm/270857992998?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_1413

Re: How much do you charge?

"The skin is done with NO flash programming. It is entirely done with Flashificator"

Thanks for the info I will look into that app...

"Terry uses a variety of programs in his image processing, and the exact processes he uses are his business secrets."

Ok sure, but we can guess his secrets could be I think

"His photographer is very skilled and uses high end photographic equipment and normally uses bracketing to have enough for creating HDR projects."

Yeah that is what I thought HDR pano sure but it is very nice even for that... (there could be more secrets than just HDR)

Terry is an artist and a professional, and seems never to run out of ideas when it comes to designs and features and functions. Real professionals choose the best tools there are, and that is what Terry does... which again explains why his projects are so nice

Sure, but this is a very general statement. The question not the tools but the method how he uses those tools especially the computer work.

_______________________________
Trausti
www.goo.gl/nKqnr

Re: PTgui template vs project

Jack Kutis said:
You're right Hans. In that case, opening a project and opening(not applying) a template does exactly the same thing, right? (except when you open a template, it opens in a new PTgui window)

There's no exception, it does the same thing, apart from the output file setting, which may be different if you have the "use default" checked.

John

Re: HDR panorama with hugin

AFAIK the OpenEXR libraries are broken 64bit Windows resulting in these empty files. You can output exposure layers and use some other software HDR merging such as Luminance HDR. When using exposure layers remember to set --no-optimize in Enblend options in Hugin's stitcher tab, this way the seam lines are the same in all layers.

Re: PTgui reads EXIF incorrectly?

Thank you Hans.

Re: displaying panorama

Vai su www.panopress.org per il WP plugin.

Re: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5

Sorry. I need to clear up a bit on my previous post.

What i meant was using 10-20mm with best result. I dedcide to go with 2 row of 6 at 12 shot in total.

Binny

Re: Help for my new panorama web site

Check out www.panopress.org/ for including 360 tours in wordpress

Re: UK self-employed VR Photographer (need advice)

esub said:
Registering for VAT means you save 20% on the cost of new equipment related to your business (computers, stationery, cameras, lenses

It also means that if you do the above, ALL equipment is property of the company and not owned by you privately.

If you sell on the company and wish to keep the equipment, you privately then have to pay the VAT back to HMRC.

Been caught out on that one myself

Re: Samyang 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3 MkII, Canon 600D, not enough space on rail

Thanks Judy, much appreciated. I just got the nadir adaptor and it does in fact give me enough extra space to do a zenith.

Re: First Flash 11 panorama engine on display

Trausti your F11 and FFC are the best!

I love all things FFC, it has saved our lives on so many occasions

Highly recommend Flashificator personally and on our website.

Keep up the good work Mr T!

Re: The end of affordable Photoshop upgrades

Judy:
Adobe's current 20% off upgrade price brings CS5 close to the EBay and Amazon prices. Maybe best to go that route.

Re: Hidden Panoramic function in iOS 5

I've seen some examples as well, good that this function is hidden!! There are far better apps out there like AutoStitch and Photosynth.

Warning 360precision

Just want to warn everybody about 360precision.com.
I ordered and paid a Absolute MK2 in may this year. £605 and still havent got any product from them. I have sent LOTS of email and tried to get in contact with their support but no answers since july.

I do no hesitate that their products are great. I made the order after a recomendation from a famous photografher.

If you want to buy. please take the advice and DO NOT PAY IN ADVANCE!

//Fredrik

Re: Fanotec Tripod Adapter for Poles is Now Shipping-my soutions

Diameter of holes: 9mm
distance from base of hole to tube-base=5.5mm
5.5 + 4.5= 10mm

Total distance from top to bottom
9 + 5.5= 14.5mm

180 degr. apart-

s7.directupload.net/file/d/2635/nbndk9qg_jpg.htm

Maybe its better you send it to someone having these tripods/044/155 and others too and will buy your adapter then.

How can be diameter of our own poles if we get your adapter?
I will not buy at the moment. Have other priorities.
Will probably try my simple(only one dual-superclamp used) unit at a flower-garden-show on weekend shooting 3dstereo-photo/panorama/videos. My sdm-cam-unit is only 1 kgs. But i will add a simple electric rotor, 34 sec around fixed.

Re: Samyang 7.5mm Micro 4/3 Pano Samples

Robert Harshman said:
This looks fine for what it is, what's the size of max size of the EQ file from Ptgui with this combo?

About 10,000px wide. The "Art Filter" example rendered out at 9932px wide and the exposure fusion "Entrance" example rendered out at 9944px. I've had a couple go just over 10,000px.

Both the examples above are reduced to 9000px.

Andrew Baddeley
www.360tacticalvr.com
stores.ebay.co.uk/360tacticalvr

Re: Introducing DoughnutVideoPublisher: 360-degree video publisher

Where's the source code for the bundled FFmpeg and MediaInfo?

ffmpeg.org/legal.html

Besides, your FFmpeg binary is compiled almost a year ago, better get something newer.

Re: Panoramic Motorized Head Merlin/Orion

Sold!!!!

Re: Virtual Tour Architect - create virtual tours online

Syborg Studios said:
We trying to get into the growing market for panorama images. This is really interesting for real estate companies. They could easily shot their houses and create virtual tours for their customers.

It seems you are not aware that this forum is now owned and hosted by www.TourWrist.com

Take a look at Tour Wrist's services and see how similar they are to your own.

Judy

Re: NADIR

The nadir (from Arabic: naẓīr; meaning "opposite") is the direction pointing directly below a particular location. scientists define that the nadir at a given point is the local vertical direction pointing in the direction of the force of gravity at that location.

Source Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir

Re: A question to NN M1 users

Piotr,

As I already ready stated, you have this sliding clamp option with both RSS and NN. The Nodal Ninja version works by backing a QRC40A and QRC40B this is the system I currently use on the NNM1.
store.nodalninja.com/quick-release-clamp-40b/

The 40B mates with the 40A that is typically the fixed clamp on the M1 upper rail.

In the end, it matters little which version you use. The RSS clamp is probably a little more refined and seeing you already have RSS rails it's probably the better choice in this instance.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: contract for panoramas

Don't give it for free like Jon said, it will make you look a hobbyist and you will not be taken serious (and undermine future work).

20% upfront and full payment Before handing over the final work will make it easier for you and don't forget to put some terms e.g. that the place has to be ready when you arrive for the shoot, sometimes they still have to arrange and clean for an hour when you arrive..

iOSVR Virtual Tour Software for iPhone and iPad & VR iPhone Apps

Hello everyone,

As you might have already heard iOSVR was launched a few weeks ago to rave reviews.

Here is an example of how iOSVR works this link is best viewed on an iPhone or iPad otherwise if viewed by a computer only the Flash tour will play.

goo.gl/kEC8d

iOSVR is the most feature packed easy to use out of the box virtual tour software for iPhone & iPad, it looks, feels and works just like a native iPhone or iPad App. From it's functionality to the finger gestures and App like interface this little App will wow your clients and generate great interest and income for your VR Company.

We have developed iOSVR to be easy to use for Non Coders and it already has everything you could want built in.

The free download trial is already setup as a working iPhone & iPad template with 6 panos, audio per pano, scrolling thumbnail menu, Google maps, , image gallery with automatically generated thumbnails and the list goes on.

All thats left is for you to upload the folder to your server and start replacing our content with yours. Our online tutorials are very easy to follow and have enabled non coders to create their first iPhone & iPad virtual tours in 30min-2.5hrs from downloading the software and never having seen code in their life.

I hope you will give iOSVR a try and see how great it is.

You can download iOSVR from our website where you will also find the tutorials.

www.iosvr.com

Virtual Tour App Development Service !!!

To celebrate the recent successful launch of iOSVR and our VR App Developer service we are happy to offer each and every VR Company here at Panoguide their own VR iPhone App on the AppStore for only $600 (normally $1500)

This App deal is designed to promote your business and services to your clients, you can also offer your VR Clients their own VR iPhone App on the AppStore. Our prices are wholesale of course designed to give you the opportunity to on sell at a profit. The $1500 VR App we sell to you can easily be on sold for $3000 + to your clients without a problem and even that is cheap.

The $600 promo App is a showcase for your business, you can have the following inclusions:

10 Panos (of individual separate locations)
Description scrolling text per pano
Image Gallery up to 20 photos
Contact details, URL, Email Phone links
Info page about your company
Google Maps with locator pins and info
Custom colours,
Branded for your company
Released under our iOSVR bulk developer license

This offer of course won't last forever so register your interest now to secure your App.

Here is an example of iOSVR working inside an App, this is our very own Tourism portal which we also have available as a Franchise model for those of you who want to have their own Tourism iPhone App:

itunes.apple.com/us/app/iviewsa/id461686336?ls=1&...

Go to our website www.iosvr.com for more info, you can either email us or feel free to give us a call for a more personal chat, we would love to hear from you.

Remomber we are in Australia so there might be a 8-10 hr time difference if nobody answers it could be that its after hours so leave a message;

Office Hours: 9am - 6pm
Ph: +618 8121 0867
TimeZone: +9:30

Best

Damir Stojkovic
CEO
iOSVR.com

iOSVR Virtual Tour Software for iPhone and iPad & VR iPhone Apps

Re: PTgui 9

When you move the camera and tripod (which is necessary to get the tripod legs out of the nadir picture) you leave (offset) the NPP of the initial position on which you took the shots around. Otherwise you wouldn't have to use the "viewpoint (offset correction)" in PTgui..

When you are unable to exactly position the lens entrance pupil in the same position (x, y and z = 3 dimensions) as Hans described above (which is virtually impossible without extra measurement tools) you are changing the NPP.

The nadir adapter keeps the y coordinate (hight) the same, but initiating the nadir adapter (and moving the tripod), Will change x and z coordinates.

Re: Re:

New link:

homepage.mac.com/hindenhaag/filechute/M1-L%20Asse...

Heinz

Re: iOSVR

Hi Jon,

My sincere apologies for not getting back to you sooner, I feel terrible but things have been hectic here. I started writing a proposal for you but wit new developments that manifested it was put on hold until earlier today.

Thankfully I received an email from Morten who kindly reminded me about your post here.

I have emailed you some details and info,

We specialise in Virtual Tour iPhone App development, so there are quite a few options for you to consider.

We also offer a Franchise model of the iViewSA iPhone App and Website integrated model, you can see the website and App on the links below.

Web: www.iviewsouthaustralia.com

App: www.itunes.apple.com/us/app/iviewsa/id461686336?l...

This is a great Fully Automated Tourism Portal, ready to roll. Everything is built in and automated so in just a few seconds by using the control panel you are able to add new listings, content, images, virtual tours etc and it all just instantly appears on the front end on the website as a new page, and everything also is instantly viewable in the iPhone App.

You are able to also assign a username and password to each client so that they can maintain their own profile, upload pictures, change text etc.

We have a full breakdown system available of course, with the business plan, approach, fee structures, sales models and how best to build content on the website quickly so that your potential clients would want to be on there and pay a monthly membership fee.

We have spent a great deal of time and invested a substantial amount in the project so far but now here in South Australia it is a great earner for us and we are constantly upgrading and adding new features.

Needless to say the entire platform is developed ground up on our iOSVR technology and works extremely well.

By the way at the moment we are offering all VR Companies their own Showcase VR iPhone App on the AppStore for a special promo price of only $600 (normally $1500)

This App deal is designed to promote your business to your clients, and to offer you the ability to be a reseller of our VR Apps by offering your clients the added service of their own VR iPhone App on the AppStore. Our prices are wholesale of course designed to give you the opportunity to on sell at a huge profit. The $1500 VR App we sell to you can easily be on sold for $3000 to your clients without a problem and even that is cheap.

The promo App is a showcase for your business, you can have the following inclusions:

10 Panos (of individual separate locations)
Description scrolling text per pano
Image Gallery up to 20 photos
Contact details, URL, Email Phone links
Info page about your company
Google Maps with locator pins and info
Custom colours,
Branded for your company
Released under our iOSVR bulk developer license

The special won't last for ever of course.

Any VR iPhone Apps that are just a conversion of a virtual tour delivered to AppStore start at $1500

Individual VR Business App costs will depend on requirements and could go anywhere from $3000 up to $20,000 + depending on intricacy.

Anyway, I hope the info I sent you in the email will be helpful, I hope to hear back from you soon.

ps/ Please drop by our site www.iosvr.com

And download the free trial of iOSVR for iPhone and iPad. You will love it. The tutorials are very helpful and the system comes setup as a working template with 6 panos, google maps, gallery, audio per pano and the list goes on.

All you need to do is start replacing our content with yours.

In the case that you would rather outsource we can also help by taking that burden from you and delivering stunning iOSVR tours (and Flash tours if needed)

Once again, please forgive me for the late reply, it's been a crazy week.

Damir
CEO
iOSVR.com

AutoStitch Automatic Cropping

I am trying to make several different panorama photos using AutoStitch with a batch file. However, when it outputs the image on the default settings, it leaves the black parts around the photo. Is there any way to automatically crop out the black around the photo with either the options or a batch file? It would be unreasonable to go through and manually crop the photos since I have so many.

Thanks for the help

Re: Car interiors - how?

While through the window is one option, it is not the only option. You can use a tripod in the car. A mini tripod on a seat or centre console or if you have a opening sunroof you can come through that. What will be tested is your nadir stitching along with patching and cloning skills.

You have options from where you want to position the view. Central between seats, Drivers eye view or back floor.

Here is an older one of mine at a car show.
tinyurl.com/1957-Holden

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: workflow for creating HDR panoramas

A Google search yielded the following:

wiki.panotools.org/HDR_workflow_with_hugin
tinyurl.com/co9tnfg

John

Re: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash?

I knew it would happen eventually...

Just had an enquiry where the individual only wanted HTML5 tours as, according to him, Adobe are now not supporting flash.

I hope that is a one off...

samyang 7,5 m.m. vs samyang 8m.m. resolution chart samples

at f:3.5,4,5.6 and 8 , nex5 , selftimer and tripod , photos taken with 8m.m. a little far to get the same chart dimensions:www.megaupload.com/?d=F738WFO6

Modifying the Gitzo Athena motorized head?

Does Hans or Morten or Smooth or anyone know wheather it is doable to program/modify the Gitzo ATHENA motorized head to act in the same way or similar to the LizardQ system for shooting spherical panos?

www.gitzo.com/news+%26+events/news/Gitzo+Launches...

www.lizardq.com/

Thanks everyone!
/Reza

Re: the new player VRSmarty leaks

I just got info that on one of the forums someone said that vrsmarty would not support html5

I would like to correct it

VRsmarty is a new player, the development of other players started years ago and the vrsmarty player needed to cach up with other players first. The main development went into flash as it is still the main and the best technology to display panoramas and for virtual tours purposes.

The player is now ready, the last thing that has been left to do is the webpage - this is my priority now.

I personally don't think that html5 is the right tool to create virtual tours, in my opinion if flash dies we (pano photographers) would go back to 2003 when we displayed panos with java, if we wanted to code all in html5 it would be like trying to display movies in a gif format

Even though my personal taste, as a developer I understand the need of supporting html5 and vrsmarty will soon have this feature

don't ask me when - as soon as possible
if there is someone with html5 knowledge who would like to join me - let me know

Darek

Re: stiching problems, samyang 8mm-nikon D7000-Fancier FT-900H

"John, you are the best, thank you very much ! "

We know he is

Heinz

Re: Helicopter rig, anyone done it?

G'day Tourdesign (I wish we could use a name),

I have only had a few chances to do this but it is an awesome experience.

trueview.com.au/guildford/

The first issue you will have is whether or not you can use an open door with harness. This is how I have shot the sample above. I would make every effort to brief the pilot as to exactly what you need/want to happen. Show him/her what the end result is expected to be. I did a dry run on the ground showing the pilot exactly what I planned to do. As I understand it, to hover in one spot at altitude is difficult (wind, rotation etc.). Also, a smaller helicopter (as I understand it) cannot maintain altitude (and hover) with even a light load.

The pilot I used was very helpful and actually went out of his way to practice controlled fast rotations. For us, this was the most productive method. Apparently, it is a fairly risky manoeuvre. There is a point where the all-important tail rotors pass through the chopper’s own slipstream and can put you momentarily out of control. Having fun yet? OK, I think the fast rotation is only required if you are pretty low to the ground. Higher up will have far less impact.

My camera setup included a Nikon D700 with shaved Nikon 10.5 Fisheye (used in Full frame mode). This is the widest option I have in my kit. On the ground I can get a full sphere with four shots around. I attached a Pano head in the zenith (up) position to a monopod and used a hard wired shutter trigger. Leaning out of the chopper with the monopod held out horizontally I asked the pilot to make a full rotation in around 5 seconds. I set the camera at continuous low speed shooting. This gave me around 15-20 shots (plenty). As soon as I knew the rotation was complete I shot the nadir by hanging the monopod directly below the chopper.

A necessary safety step was to use heavy duty tape around all joins and wiring. I used a boogie board wrist strap to secure the monopod and all equipment to my arm. Of course I was harnessed in and attached via a metal lanyard with emergency safety release.

I know that you were looking at one shot options. However, if that becomes difficult, I hope some of this information is helpful.

Morten

Re: is this a correct optimal point of stiching?

hi there,

if you're using the Canon 550D & 8mm Sigma, you only need to shoot 4-round, not 6. Perhaps the massive overlaps are also contributing to the stitching errors? (but I'm no expert).

Stu

Re: Fullscreen pano locks up when external link is selected

Ok this seems to be a tab problem.

If you in the preferences change the Firefox default behavior to open new _blank pages in a tab, to open as a new page there is no freezing.

Chrome does not even have an option to change this. They should not try to change what you have specified in your html.

Hans

Re: Quick question about Picture style editor and DPP

One idea, maybe a better approach just hit me

I should have ben used bracketing after all, but not in the same direction for a set of 3, instead I should have managed to have the normal/over/under according with the light

That could have required to not do a simply pan (left-right), but to have camera oriented according with the bracketing step.. but I guess you got the picture.

That is something I should try next time.

cheers,
Dorin

Re: nikon D700 + Tokina 10 17 best focus

Hi Mario,

I use this one:

www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

On Apple Apps you can get Lens Lab. Nice to visualize what happens changing aperture or distance.

www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-fiel...

A very good information page. Plus this one:

www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understandin...

There was a long discussion about hyperfocal distance on this forum: just search the forum.

www.panoguide.com/search/?s=hyperfocal+distance&f...§ion=forums

Regards,
Heinz

Palmela 2011 Videos now available

Hi,

If you're interested in watch the Palmela 2011 Conference talks in video, they are now available, head on to: www.palmela2011.com/info/conference/video-archive

Roughly half of the talks are published already with the rest coming over the next weeks.
Follow Palmela 2011 on Facebook or Twitter to get timely updates.

Carlos Chegado

Palmela 2011 organizer
On behalf of the IVRPA.

Re: quick and easy way to create virtual tour for a location

Answers:

1) Move aside just enough to get the shot of where the tripod legs were before (20cm extra is nice to have some space for masking in PTgui). Shoot everything (including the nadir) with the camera in portrait orientation.

2) Didn't try myself to stitch the nadirs in different panoramas from a template, but probably it is possible when the nadirs are in every image at the same angle/position. For taking the nadir, I point the camera 60degree down on the NN and lean the tripod forward.

3) As mentioned by Hans in another threat, shoot the first image of the panorama with the tripod leg in the middle of the frame, this way you'll get some shots with no legs and end up with the camera positioned between the legs for the nadir shot (less masking and no repositioning the camera for the nadir shot)..

Re: Canon 5D MII panoimages

It would be interesting to see if the new lens will be as small and compact while providing the same cropped circular image that the 7.5 lens does. Even if it does, I am just about done tweaking the 7.5. I am not in the market to purchase yet another lens when my Sigma 8mm lens works perfectly and the Samyang 7.5 is about 98% there. Smooth is out making money with his.

Let's get this thread back to the Canon 5D images. Sorry to stray from the original question.

Re: Best combination overall?

what camera could help a really bad photographer do good pictures?

The camera you are currently using. It's not the cameras fault you are getting bad pictures.

You need to learn how to take pictures. It is that simple.

When you shoot a panorama, you want to set the camera to full manual mode and make the decisions yourself. A very expensive camera will still need to be set on full manual mode. After you make all your adjustments, you take your picture. If you make bad decisions, your pictures will turn out bad. Once you learn how to make good decisions, your panoramas will get better.

If you have specific examples you can post, please post them so we can get you taking better pictures.

Re: Comprehensive tutorial: Creating Panoramas, The Open Source Way

good effort chillman!

NEX 5 for sale -- price reduction.

NEX 5 in box with all accessories on eBay.

International shipping may not be possible to all countries. I'll have to check into the specifics for each country and may not give free shipping.

www.ebay.com/itm/170716072947?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Re: how to specify that I want only the nadir to align with the other photos

John Houghton said:
DemonDuck said:
Addendum: On the Control Points menu item...
There is no Control Points menu in Hugin, which is what Ryan is using.

John

Oh... sorry.

Re: Any FULLY online tools to build a 360 interactive panorama and virtual tours?

Hi

Easypano has a online tool to build your virtual tour and host your virtual tour .

You can try it by this link:www.tour-hosting.com/

Re: Bird Eye - Warsaw, including stadion for Euro 2012

Very cool stuff Darek. The multi-res feature is impressive, I appreciate the amount of effort it takes to stitch and patch these aerial panos.

Couple of things:
1) The intro video image freezes during the playback though the sound continues. I had to click "skip intro" to proceed.

2) Not sure you need to start with the little planet projection, very confusing and disorienting. Perhaps you're doing it to demo capabilities.

3) "Land heli" button is very misleading. I was expecting the camera to descend to ground level. Perhaps "hide hotspot" may be more appropriate.

Pat L

Re: stiching nadir back into the equirectangular panorama

Hello again,

once again I am very happy to use PTGuiPro. Seems to make life so much easier. Workflow in Hugin seems to be different, that's why you mentioned the -90º pitch of the nadir John.

Regards,
Heinz

Re: NEX-5 and Samyang 7.5 update

Yes, the rear Samyang mounting flange has two faces that must be machined.

1. The locating edge
2. The shim mounting face

The shim mounting face that the factory installed shims sit on is the area that is critical. Because if you only shave the locating edge you aren't achieving anything (or very, very little). As this face should already be sitting hard against the lens body (or shims if in place). By relieving this face you are allowing the optics to move closer to the camera sensor. But you also must relieve the locating edge also or it will bottom out before the shim mounting face.

Possibly it is not critical for both these faces to be shaved/relieved the exact same amount. But the locating edge must be shaved at least equal to or more than the shim mounting face. The one thing you want to be sure of is that the shim mounting face can mount absolutely flush to it's adjoining face. Shims then can be added or removed to gain exacting infinity focus.

The amount to be machined off either or both faces obviously varies between individual lenses (as we know that they can have varying thickness spacer shims from factory). Mine had 3x 0.004" shims. So I removed 0.012" from both faces and got the results I required. I.E: True infinity focus on the NEX 5/NEX 5N.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: how to fit nadir in this pano

hindenhaag said:
This way your first shot has the bed on top of the picture as well as Nadir1/2. Your Nadir shots are turned by 90° to the first shot. PTGuiPro can heal this by choosing viewpoint correction.

The nadirs can be taken at any angle of yaw you like, so viewpoint correction is not needed to "heal" this. OTOH, viewpoint correction can be employed to deal with the lower rail mis-setting, which causes the parallax error shown in this animation:

The straight line control points (t3,t4,...tn) are better described in this guide to the optimizer:

www.johnhpanos.com/optitute.htm

In this project, they can only be used on a temporary basis when the output is selected to display the nadir in rectilinear projection. After optimization, the output needs to be restored to the usual 360x180 equirectqangular format, and the line points deleted. The lens parameters should not then be further optimized. PTGui's normal optimizer does not support the line points, so the alternative Panotools optimizer must be used for this.

John

Re: hugin changes focal length

For me 8.05, 8.08 and 7.95 is 8mm and adjusting it will not make diference, clearly Hugin recognizes the Sigma right. How does the final stitch turn out?

HFOV should be adjusted when making the pano viewable in the player and not during stitching.

Re: Looking for Pano Photographers located in certain cities..

Just a quick note: Please include the equipment you are using.

Also, please be located in the city you are shooting - we are reaching out because we want to avoid paying travel fees. Thank you!

Re: navigation bar

make sense. i am going to give it a try. thanks alot for the info.
uv

Re: Feedback needed

DemonDuck said:
...
Dorin, it's too slow on my connection to be useful.

Thanks, this is also an useful feedback.

The last mirror is now removed, no need for further feedback.

cheers,
Dorin

Re: Finally, a Google streetview business example...

and I just spotted the turd!

sorry please delete this thread

sorry

How to add 3D object in Tourweaver7 beta

3D object is supported in Tourweaver7 beta.
You can add 3ds file in main window and popupwindow.
In this sample tour you can see a "car "and the car is a 3D sample :www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software-tw7.html
Here is the step to add 3D obejct in your tour by tourweaver7:
1. First ,you need prapare a 3ds file.Tourweaver7 supports all knids 3D object only if 3ds format.You can made the 3D object by autoCAD,3DMAX and so on.
2.Open tourweaver7 beta and you will see a '3D" tool in the tool box.
3.Drag it to the main window or popupwindow.
4. Set properity of 3D object , you can set the size and position of it .
5.Add a 3ds file and then add a texture image.
6. Preview it and publish it.

For more information you can download tourweaver7 and test it .
www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software-tw7.html

ieasypano is a free hosting when use "Share on Facebook' feature in Tourweaver7

In Tourweaver7 ,a new features is added ---'Share your tour on Facebook" .When you publish your tour just choose 'share on facebook" then after you publish ,your tour will be uploaded to ieasypano automaticly .Then you just click "facebook" icon in ieasypano .Your tour will be shared in facebook. So it is very easy to use .

Many users wonder if they need pay when use ieasypano.
The answer is "No, it is free to use for all tourweaver user"
You can first register a ieasypano account ,it is free and easy to register.
www.ieasypano.com
More information about Tourweaver7:
www.easypano.com/Virtual-tour-software-tw7.html

support@easypano.com

Re: advice please

Well, we all have our own preferences, but I suppose something like a NIKON D3000 body would suffice. On Amazon, that is under 600 USD; I am certain there are better deals to be had.

Jon

Shooting to the sun

Smooth, would you be kind and whenever possible (no hurry) also do a test outdoor on a sunny day shooting towards and at an angle to the sun, with both optics (Sigma 8 + Canon 8-15 @ 8 mm) on just the 7D, f/11 would be fine. Like to see how they compare on flare ...

Once again, thank you for your time.
Cheers
Reza

Re: Series of 180's at a Jamaica Resort

Numbers are fine for links. Much better than just thumbnails as you can remember numbers and can easy refer to them.
With HTML links you can also see what you seen if you do it correct like Hayden has done.

Hans

Re: Tourweaver7 Beta version is released !

Dear Tactus 360,
First of all, thank for your sincerely suggestion about our website and examples .We appreciated it very much!
We are trying to improve our gallery and website .
Welcome more people to give us more suggestion about our gallery: www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-gallery.html
If any of tourweaver users who have great vritual tour and want to share with all people in our wesite,please contact us and we can put it in our gallery to share with more people .Any great virtual tours made by tourweaver is welcomed!

Our Tourweaver7 beta is released .Welcome you to test it .
Any suggestion and feedback is appreciated .If you can help us review it , we will appreciate it very much!
www.easypano.com/Virtual-tour-software-tw7.html
Thank for your suggestion and feedback!

www.easypano.com
support@easypano.com

Re: Avoiding Over & Under Exposure

Take a close look at SNS-HDR software too. There are 3 versions and you can download a demo. IMHO it gives very realistic results and offers the best of Exposure Fusion + HDR. Like anything a bit of a learning curve but well worth it. I'm very happy with results shooting indoor 360s which have multiple over bright highlights in window areas. I'm using the Pro version. Website here -
www.sns-hdr.com/

Cheers, Grant

Re: Sunrise over Mono Lake

All the panos that are going into this series have been posted.

www.dlsphoto.net/Panoramas.htm

Click on the second thumbnail from the top.

I will probably come back to them later for fine tuning and such. Time to take a break and get back to work.

Re: embed fpp in wordpress

I would check out the Panopress Forum
www.panopress.org/
Sam Rohn has all sorts of information about the plugin there.

Re: Panther Falls in Banff National Park, Canada

Hi guys, thanks for your comments.

Between my aging monitor and aging eyes, my ability to find a good dynamic range may have passed its best-before date.

Tactus 360 said:
I can only imagine that the old colonial spirit is quite strong in you, Judy, otherwise I have no idea how you manage to get to such spots and how much energy it takes lugging all that equipment with you.

My long suffering husband helps carry my gear. I don’t carry a camera bag on the trail. My fashion statement is my mud-colored, 16-pocketed fishing vest which holds extra batteries, flash cards, remote, lens pen, sunglasses, water, etc. I may look lumpy and frumpy, but panorama photography is no pastime for the vain.

DennisS said:
On my last trip it was very cold in the morning. I made the mistake of putting the lens cap of my Sigma 8mm in my pocket with the lens side towards my leg. (I know, I am not supposed to ever put a lens cap in my pocket. No choice when a monopod is taking up one of my hands.) Well, my leg warmed up the air inside the lens cap and moisture collected.

Lens cap sullied with pocket lint or condensation. I’ve been there. Now my lens cap always goes into a pocket of my ‘photog vest’ used only for the lens cap and nothing else.

In retrospect, it’s obvious that I should have cleaned the lens. However, in the scene with the boulders, the sun was sinking fast. I took another series five minutes later with slow shutter speeds to try for a milky look in the waterfall, but by then the sun had sunk behind the trees and the shadows were too deep. My point being that if I had taken five minutes to clean the lens, I might have missed this pano altogether.

Ken, I experimented with Enfuse GUI and even Nik HDR Efex Pro on these images. Neither preserved the snow caps and water detail to my satisfaction.

We need Juan Hernández and his team from Aragon360grados.com to shoot Panther Falls properly.

Here's another panorama of these falls, taken by Scott Rowed. He was far more daring than me.

worldwidepanorama.org/worldwidepanorama/wwp604/ht...

I’d like to go back to this location in the early part of the day when there’s sunlight on the rock wall of the canyon. Maybe next year.

Judy

Re: Newbie - Why does my 360 panorama flicker at speed/full screen??

Hello Savski,

Well done panorama when you just starting out, nice detail outside the window as well!

The pano doesn't look oversharpened so that cannot be the problem and I would not worry to much about it.

Few little points of advice to make your pano even better;

- Your lower rail of the panohead seems to be a little offset to the right and a better positioning could reduce some of the stitching errors.
Have a look at Smooth's tutorial how to do this; www.easypano.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?...

- The front room with the window seems to have a bit of a Cyan cast over it and you could correct the image with a color balance layer in Photoshop to push the Cyan a bit to the red side, give that a try and it will make the colors better overall.

- Some of the walls in the room don't look vertical and lean to the left a bit, to correct this, try John's tutorial; www.johnhpanos.com/levtut.htm

Re: Proper shooting technique

You could also try Magic Lantern as you have a 5dmk2, works fine on mine or OCC from hdrlabs but you will need to have a cable made and it assumes you have a nintendo ds.

The latter does not touch your camera in anyway whereas the former requires a certain amount of faith in the developers as you are playing with your cameras firmware albeit by piggyback!

It is currently not under development much for the 5D but as long as your firmware is not higher than 2.8 you can use it otherwise you have backstep it. Details are on the magic lanterrn wiki at magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Lantern_Firmwar...

Also join the vimeo user forum for more info...

Re: Sigma 8mm v Canon EF17-40mm for spherical 360's

Mark Iveson said:
I tried shooting 2 Nadirs so I could combine them, as the head is visible right to the edge of the frame so by turning the camera 180 degrees I can get rid of the pano head but it all seems to take quite a long time to retouch.

Mark, There should be no need of retouching. You add the two nadir images into PTGui with all the other imagea and optimize them into position with control points added to link them to the other images and to each other. Add masks to remove the panohead from both nadirs. You should end up with a clean nadir area in the stitched panorama, with a hole where the tripod was. This can be patched over with a nadir taken with the tripod shifted sideways using PTGui's viewpoint correction feature. (Tutorials on the PTGui web site and at www.johnhpanos.com/ptgvpt.htm ).

Note that you may be able to dispense with the two nadir shots by tilting the camera down a little for the horizontal row so that the tripod feet are just out of view. The zenith hole will be bigger, but a zenith shot should still cover it.

John

Romanian Cup, Poli - Steaua

Hi all, gear used:
twin combo Canon 350D + Sigma 8mm 3.5 on top of a Fanotec Pole Series 2 (1.5 to 6 m panos)

here are the first 32 panos (mirrored for two days or so)
tinyurl.com/poli-steaua-1

or if you have red-cyan anaglyph glasses
tinyurl.com/poli-steaua-1a

cheers,
Dorin

Re: Nodal Ninja and 360 Precision

Nick Fan said:
Tactus 360 said:
In six emails sent to Fanotec, in the course of 5 years, whilst I was building an equipment list, four were unanswered, one a single-line reply, and one reacting to the fact that I eventually got shitty with them.

In both cases, the emails sent were courteous (apart from a final last week to Pants-o-tec). In only one exchange with these two suppliers have I been treated with equal courtesy.

Hi Jon,

I was just informed that you bought our Pole 1 and tripod adapter based on our reseller recommendation and was not able to use it without our rotators. I apologize for not making it clear that a Fanotec rotator is needed. You are the first customer to use a motor head on our pole with tripod adapter. Obviously, it is pointless to get another rotator when you use a motor head. We can make a simple 3/8" male to M6 female adapter for using our pole on tripod adapter DIRECTLY. Or we can make a new tightening knob with a 3/8" thread instead. This part will be offered to you FREE of charge. We will make them as optional parts for swap or purchase in the future so that other customers with motor head can use the tripod adapter. Of course, you can also return our products for full refund, including the shipping (since we made wrong recommendation).
I sincerely apologize for wrong recommendation and delay in reply to your inquiry. you can always use our forum and forum PM to reach me if somehow your inquiry is not answered.

Nick
PS As a courtesy, I can offer you a free Level for our Pole 1 in case you don't have.

Hi Jon,

Just to let you know that an adapter for using your pole on tripod adapter is ready and should reach your reseller by the end of next week. Just kindly let your reseller know whether you accept our offer or want a full refund. Let's close the case and focus on something more enjoyable.

Nick

Re: Does anybody have a reliable channel to communicate with Matt Rogers (360precision)?

hindenhaag said:
Hi Clay,

I believe the best thing for you would be to contact Andrew:

Heinz

Thanks, its my sense that 360precision should concentrate on what they do best... make a fine line of pano heads.
I'll be deciding soon on the head to buy, I'm leaning toward NN right now.

Clay

Re: Occupy LSX (London)

yeah sorry, forgot to tick that particular box

Re: Partial Panos - advice required

We all had to start somewhere, and he's quite keen on the idea of partial pano's to advertise his properties.
And why not? It's different to still images in that it will be interactive and show more of the rooms than still images would. For now, he's not interested in going down the full pano route.
Perhaps not the best forum to ask this question, as we're all passionate (obsessed!) with creating pixel perfect 360° tours.
But the truth is, for the application he has in mind which is photographic properties on the low end of the spectrum, partial panos are perfect. Rooms are generally small to medium, and a partial pano taken from near the door or corner, will present the room far better than still images.
Gus

Re: recommendations for wide-angle lens for interiors

I would suggest that distortion characteristics are at the bottom of the list when choosing a lens nowadays. As long as you're using lens profiles in your RAW convertor you'll pretty much never see any distortion anyway.
Sharpness, CA, flare characteristics and of course focal range are far more important factors.

I'd suggest that the 8-16 is too wide and too short at the long end too. A lot of canon crop sensor shooters rate the 10-22 very highly

Re: how to unwrap bloggie dome video after hacked?

Hi,
I think there is a link error on your first link; I didn't find a file to download.
I have the same issue. Did you resolve the problem?

Re: FS: 360Precision Adjuste MK2

SOLD to Morten (Thanks!)

Autopano 2.6 beta 4 & Panotour 1.7 beta 1

Hello everyone,

Our team released a few days ago the 4th beta of Autopano 2.6, our image-stitching software, including a new lens model that greatly improves the stitching quality.

More info here: www.kolor.com/blog-en/2011/10/13/autopano-pro-aut...

We also released a first beta of virtual tour software Panotour and Panotour Pro 1.7: www.kolor.com/blog-en/2011/10/21/panotour-panotou...

Try them and tell us what you think!

Best,
Rami

Re: Virtual Tours and Android

Autopano Tour works if you embed all files, I use an app called "SmartFlash" and have a HTC Desire 1000mhz. It lags on some files, but plays most fine. I'm using the Demo version of Autopano Tour, so I'm limited to about 1mb files.

Re: Tutorial

And then you could go here, which is a feast of information:

www.johnhpanos.com/tuts.htm

Jon

FS: Pentax DA10-17 fisheye lens with micro multirow panohead

Pentax DA10-17 with panohead machined of aluminium, anodized black. The panohead can be taken off the lens, but in my opinion that´s unneccessary. It has built-in bulls eye levels on two arms for easy alignment. I used it with K10, K20, K-x and K7. Shooting technique is 6+Z+N on 1,5 crop cameras. It also has a slot for a single row arm mounting, just in case Pentax will enter the FF camera market. Of course the lens hood would need a shave then.

Comes with a nice Loewepro lens bag that keeps lens and head parts together in one place.
Lens is in good condition, comes with the original box and all papers. Lens must be from 2008 or 2009, I purchased it shortly after it entered the market. Rarely used, that´s why it´s for sale.

Price 550Euro (480GBP/770USD) OBO. Shipping at cost, ask for rate.

Sample pano produced with the lens:
www.360und180.de/panorama-dortmund-von-oben.html

Regards Martin

Re: Making a pano/movie

I think exist tool doesn't provide what you need.
You need code some scripts. Try use flash, silverlight, svg, wml or anything like that. Or maybe you can code your own script for stellarium.

Or you can just make movie from photos. Like slideshow or 360 panorama movie but without VR.

p.s. if you decide make simple movie from photos try my makemovie777.com

Sony NEX in body HDR jpg vs. RAW?

I'm comparing the quality of 3 frame 6ev HDR jpgs that come out of the Sony NEX cameras and RAW. I haven't used RAW much, but it seems to me that I'm getting a better tone range with less noise in the HDR jpg, although the RAW is just a bit sharper.

I'm applying just sharpness and curves to the HDR jpg. With the RAW I'm adding fill and recover, noise reduction, sharpness, and curves. Is there anything else I could do to bring up the post process quality of the RAW?

The only benefit I can see from RAW over HDR jpgs is the lack of ghosting with moving objects. Using HDR jpgs in static scenes though seems to work well and reduces the post process workload.

Samples in zip are the post process with both indoor and outdoor scenes.
www.thomashuang.net/test/hdr-vs-raw.zip

Re: New Sony Nex 7 24 mp

First Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera Review by Steve Huff

www.stevehuffphoto.com/2011/10/23/the-sony-nex-7-...

Re: Its possible to create 360 panorama with animated gifs?

Can someone recommend a good GIF to SWF converter?

Re: Need some urgent advise on Panorama kit

hey heinz !
thanks for the reply.
the system from RSS which i mentioned in the message is basically the same as the one u recommending from NN i GUESS !!!

this is the RRS set up i was suggesting.

reallyrightstuff.com/mmRRSNET/Images/gallery/192F...

reallyrightstuff.com/mmRRSNET/Images/gallery/192F...

so my question is with this set up on top of the kit i mentioned will it be able to counter the Parallax issue?

i wil be able to slide the camera in portrait orientation on this rail to get the NPP and then move the camera ard the NPP using the Arca swiss pan base.
what say?

Re: 360P Atome for Nikon 10.5 urgently wanted.

Hi Juergen,

Andrew Badders is always a trustable address for things like this:
www.360tacticalvr.com/rotators/360precision/atome...

For the best because of time your friend might give andrew a call.

Pleasure,
Heinz

Re: Slide show software

You can find a wide range of gallery players in www.flashxml.net

Re: Best ratio for flash file size/quality while uploading to the web?

I have used this skin on a couple of occasions. With the right editor, its component svg files can be adapted well; with a little thinking, it can be inproved to suit your own needs. Arturo is also veey helpful if asked... Worth the little investment, if you want to use Pano2vr. I am a stalwart fan, even if I am now using (I am a slut for gimmicks - but so are potential clients) FPP with FCC.

Jon

Re: some rotational play with Sony nex lenses

not at mine.

Re: WANTED : 400 ft aerial 360 service

All I'm saying is don't discount technologies or options just because your client base can't see the value in them. You need to sell them on value if you want to do that.

And of course it would be commercial folly for a photographer to buy extra equipment that you can't make a return on from 1-3 shoots.

Aerial RC work is probably a crazy idea for 99.99% of all photographers. It's extremely expensive to build great platforms, maintain them, keep your flying skills current and the liability insurance for commercial work is insanely expensive.

It should be. Flying things tend to fall from the sky at some point. No one wants to be on the news hour and dealing with insurance claims or lawsuits. At best you lose a craft, camera, lens. At worst...don't even want to go there.

But much safer and closer to ground is giga pixel, 360 video, extremely extended interfaces or value added interactions. 360 work can be so much more than just a simple 360 view. At this point if that's all you do, even if done very well, you should probably be looking for a new gig.

Simple 360's are yesterday's technology, still nice, but hardly a commercial viable living.

Cheers,

Robert

Re: Throwable panoramic ball

www.panoguide.com/forums/qna/9779/

Jon

Re: Beginner needs help please

Thanks John, I'm starting to get the hang of it now.

Re: Sony Nex-5 vs 550D Dilemma

Thanks for the replies Robert n Nick
I will try to tweak my workflow based on your tips. I process my raw in DxO and get good results till 400 but ISO 800-1600 gives softer images most times(I never touch 1600 as a result). The reason I was looking at a model with higher ISO is only to lower my capture times for indoor places with people.
Reg the original theme of this thread, some reviews point Nex-5N perform better than 5D MkII & D7000 in certain areas, surely Sony has a tuff one up its sleeve.

New virtual tours

Hello.
Here are my new virtual tours:

Rock Reggae Festival in Brzeszcze
www.wirtualne.eu/brzeszcze/index.html

First time I used fullframe camera with shaved fisheye (canon 5dmk2 + samyang 8mm). It was training for me to make 360 panoramas with only 3 pictures. Unfortunately, I had only standard tripod and the height is not so good - Next time I must find some pole or other tripod.

Pszczyna Castle (and park)
www.wirtualne.eu/panoramy/pszczyna/pano_pszczyna....

Standard tour - 10 panos.

Mount Klimczok
www.wirtualne.eu/panoramy/klimczok/pano_klimczok....

Tour with only 3 panoramas.

Enjoy.

----
My whole galleries:
www.wirtualne.eu/galeria.html
www.wirtualne.eu/realizacje.html

Re: Why switch from photomerge to Ptgui/hugin/autopano

Hi

When it comes to lenses I use quite a few different ones, depending on the subject. But typically between 35mm and 135. A pano is usually consisting of 10-30 full size tifs from raw.

I´ve been looking a bit more into autopano, and it seems to have some useful features that would be nice to have, and also seems to be capable of better quality stitches than photomerge. Any experience with this? I´m talking about the kolor autopano giga btw.

Re: Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM Fisheye Ultra-Wide Zoom

hi,

found the LPP at 13,5mm for 8mm with 7,5° tilt angle.

Regards

Re: error stitching in a single image! is it possible?

Luigi Pirandello said:
ok, is the first time that i see this error in a pano preview. So you say that it is normal?

Could be a tile cube face related problem, see this
www.panoguide.com/forums/qna/8342/?page=2

cheers,
Dorin

Re: 5D2 with 8mm sigma potrait and lanscape

Jaime said:
There would be no diference in the final output, just the camera is reducing the image it shows o fit in the screen, if you turn off the autorotate image you will see them at the same size in the screen.

thanks Jamie. Will try it!

Re: model apartment

Stopped loading at 75% for me.

Re: Parallel panorama help

So basically I have a parallax issue.

Re: Level is still overrated :)

Robert Harshman said:
@Smooth, If you're using a stitching program that does not allow quick and easy level, you might as well use a film camera. Upgrade to a modern stitching program now, speed of stitch alone will make that worthwhile. Anyone that is serious about 360's will use a stitcher that supports quick and easy level.

Oh, I was wondering why my film wouldn't stitch level. I use all the holes and they seem to line up! Is there something better than Live Picture Photo Vista? Maybe I missed it? Please enlighten me...

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Topaz Bundle or DxO Optics Pro Elite

Thanks guys for your thoughts...
It's now time for me to play a little bit more with a trial version and decide.

Re: FS: Nodal Ninja 5 with R-D16 and extras

Sold. Thank you.

Ladybug 2 spherical motion camera incl. laptop, pele cases, backpack harness and more

Ladybug 2 spherical camera for sale, in perfect state, as well as pele cases, laptop with ssd disk, backpack harness, batteries for laptop, batteries for camera - fully portable - perfect for mobile production.

Purchased january 2011 at TTX.co.uk in the UK for 33.400 GBP.

Quality is very good for a bandwith limited to 800Mbits/s.
Frame rate is adjustable up to 30fps.

Used for various purposes - has to be sold, because of terminal illness.
Price : 20.000,00 EUR + VAT if sold in Denmark (invoice provided)or make an offer ..

Description:

The highly affordable Ladybug®2 spherical digital video camera system has six 0.8 MP cameras that enable the system to collect video from more than 75% of the full sphere, and an IEEE-1394b interface that allows streaming to disk at 30fps. The Ladybug2 is an excellent choice where smaller size, lower cost, or the ability to have the camera run over long distances via optical cable is required.

Short specs:
Sensor: Six Sony 1/3" progressive scan CCD, Color
Resolution: 1024x768
Frame Rates: 1024x768 at 30FPS
Compression: JPEG image compression via Compressor
Calibration: Provides high quality spherical image stitching
Lenses: Six (6) 2.5mm focal length high quality micro lenses

Full product information :

www.ptgrey.com/products/ladybug2/index.asp

Re: IAA 64 - A Motor Show in Frankfurt

Oops, didn't expect that someone will be ready to watch all 31 pano

Here is a link to the proper section of the portal: auto.mail.ru/panoramas.html?gallery_id=3

It is in Russian only, but the navigation is pretty straightforward.

Some panos were used as an additional illustrations for the articles devoted to particular participant's booths, like this article about AUDI: auto.mail.ru/article.html?id=35228

A client likes the reaction of it's audience, we talk about similar coverage for the nearest car show in Genève.

Re: Best Lens for an Olympus E-410?

Courtney,

glad you got things right now.

Just in case you might look for another lens in the future:

www.voigtlaender.de/cms/voigtlaender/voigtlaender...

Voigtlaender lenses are very good in quality , close to leica lenses but for a much better price. This is the only MFT lens at the moment. F/0.95!

www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/voigtla...

Heinz

Re: MagicPlan iPhone app draws floorplan

Judy,

thanks for posting this, very interesting. Just downloaded it to take a look see.

Robert

Re: The next breakthrough in panoramic photography

Tactus 360 said:
there are already too many competitors who think they can take panoramas with no equipment or skill around already

Jon

Its only a matter of time before they will be right.

Re: Phottix Remote

HI,

@ Martin:I had this problem with the first version of Hahnel Giga T on Nikon D3. It did not stop at the end of the bracketing set. Other versions of Hahnel remote controls did not have this problem with the same camera. Was a problem of this special remote control others reported as well. With the newest version this seems to be solved.

I did not expect this problem and I was not told about this by the reseller in the shop. I think he even did not know.

I placed the hint to prevent others by testing/asking about the remote control functions to prevent you to buy wrong equipment.

@Clay: Same experience with D7000. Metal cover came loose of cable and got stuck in the camera. Specially this sort of plug often is very sticky to all Nikon cameras using the same sort of plug. With Hahnel equipment.

Cause this Hahnel remote control model is no longer available I could not get a new cable! "Right now we have these models" the answer in the shop.

But, I took out the metal part of the plug out the camera with a forceps, the cable works without it. And I can use my old remote.

Regards,
Heinz

360Precision Atome, Nikon 10.5, Nodal Ninja 3 For Sale

I am selling an unused 360Precision Atome for the Nikon 10.5mm. I am also selling a gently used Nikon 10.5mm fisheye and my Nodal Ninja 3.

This is house cleaning day. I hate to sell these, but I really only use the Sigma 8mm now and just don't need these items. They have all been professionally maintained. The Atome has actually never been used. Any questions, let me know.

www.ebay.com/itm/360Precision-Atome-Rotator-Nikon...

www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Fisheye-Nikkor-10-5mm-f-2-...

www.ebay.com/itm/Nodal-Ninja-3-Panoramic-Pano-Hea...

LadyBUG2 compressor wanted

Hi, my Ladybug compressor went bad. I need a new one

Re: Autopano Giga 2.5 License for sale £49.99

surely the licence is not transferrable??

Nikon D5000 for Sale

Hello Everyone, I am selling my Nikon D5000 with 18-55mm lens. I also have an extra lens, which is the 55-300 mm lens, they are both in good condition and I have had them less than two months, I also got the receipt from best buy I have all the boxes and manual that it came with. It has only been used no more than 5 times, to test it out. Inside the box, I still have the 5-year warranty that you can submit with the copy of my best buy receipt.

also included an 8 GB memory card, carrying case and wireless remote. (My asking price is $750, paypal account only, if you are local and live in the Rockville, MD area I will take cash or paypal payment as well. I will post up pictures shortly, if not tomorrow.

Re: Detroit's Eastern Market

Thanks Smooth..I'll fix when I get a chance. You are right, it does cry for some sort of ambient sound. I'll have to look into the xml coding for that.

Re: Can Characteristics of Image Taken in One Focal Length Be Changed To Another?

Well done Marcus, "Sorry 'doesn't' seem to be the hardest word" sometimes.

Nice to have found the solution to your problem Fergal.

We know why most of us like this forum. It's like "Fair Trade".

Cheers,
Heinz

Re: can you have a door opening animation in pano2vr

Pano2VR is at version 3.1 and "pinning" an element is a feature with a target release of version 3.2 according to the Pano2VR road map.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Panoramas of night sky with Milky Way

I know what you say because that's exactly what I do, travel to a dark location and freeze to death trying to get a photo. No hero stories just the only way to do the job.

An option to the Astrotrac is to build a barn-door tracker, they can work quite nicely if they are well built.

Re: do you like the krpano distorsion

It has been told to me that normal human eye field of view is about 50° field of view. Using 50° would zoom in abit.. avoiding the apparant projection 'stretching' on left and right viewer side.

Re: panoramas over tables

There were few rooms unnocuppied by guests on upper floor (obviously) I was in those rooms and I took the photos with camera on monopod, I opened the window in the room an keep my monopod horisontaly having camera a bit ouside of the building.
Then the photos were sticthed into a fake pano with the purpose of showing the hotel placement into the city and the buldings which sourrounds it.

As I said was no way to open a window toward the Bank, without a screwdriver or such, unless I call one of their technicians, but that was postponed for next time, however that was intended only as a pilot pano, a gigapixel one is schedueled for other time, then it will be complete (no gray/black area)

cheers,
Dorin

Re: Chrome and lack of 'hand' icon?

No hand with FPP just a pointer -- no hand in Pano2VR but the default cursor set is used.

How to pan vrpano without mouse click (only on mouse movement)

I have seen a pano, its movement is controled by without mouse click . only by mouse movement. when we move mouse, the pano will ratate or tilt as per mouse movement..
How to do that..is any spl software for that ????

andnlnbn

Re: Just a bit of fun

Tactus 360 said:
Still, I got up extra early this morning (all sorts of things unphotographic to do today, such as change to the winter wheels - yes, the snow has come - and clean my floors), and made something much more elegant and, I hope more to your liking.

Ahh, much better!

You might be interested to know that the thatched cottage we exchanged on last year is the one I posted in my virtual tour of Røros museum:

www.panoguide.com/forums/galleries/8050/

Yes, I thought I recognized the buildings from your other panoramas.

Looking back at the detail of the sod roof construction, I see that the builders used sheets of birch bark as an underlay. Birch bark is very water resistant. (First Nations peoples in Canada used it to make canoes.) The birch bark by itself would curl and blow away, so the weight of sod held it in place and provided insulation. Very resourceful.

My grandparents on both sides were pioneer farmers who built log cabins as their first houses on their homesteads. They used wooden shakes on the roofs, but some homesteaders, on the bald prairies where there were few trees, used sod roofs. Some homesteaders even made cabin walls of stacked sod blocks.

I lived in a log house in the Peace River valley for a few years when I was a preschooler. Seeing these houses in your panoramas fills me with nostalgia. Sigh!

Judy

Re: Pole pano - market square in Wroclaw.

I use a light hand-held pole:
www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Info_SLX.h...
Jan

Re: How to embed a video in Pano2VR

Ryan,

As I mentioned in my initial post it's not what I'm looking for.
Will ask developer on when it's expected to arrive...

Re: 3D Anaglyth Crowd Scene Panorama

Congrats Smooth, it looks indeed good.

About the red-cyan anaglyph glasses, if you have the chance to buy one, take with you a laser pointer, the best glasses are those who don't allow the the red ray going through the cyan (say blue) filter, mean with laser on you cannot see the red dot, and so for any blue led you might have on at your phone cell or so, the blue light suppose to not be seen through the red filter, the better the above the better results (less ghosts)

cheers,
Dorin

Monopod calibration

Just when you thought you were done calibrating your rig, along comes another yahoo telling you that you are not done yet. (Insert Spamalot song "I'm not dead yet".)

I have found that a monopod is not perfectly straight, unless it is made out of a single piece. Even then, there is a slight bow.

When you mount your R1, it is slightly tilted. Any bubble level you clamp onto the monopod will tell you that the rig sitting plumb and square when in fact it is not. The bow of the monopod throws the bubble level off.

Today I tried an experiment. I used a plumb bob mounted over my head. I marked an X on the floor. I then raised the bob up to the level of the top of my monopod. I put the foot of the monopod on the X and proceeded to square up my monopod while looking at the bubble level.

When I thought I was in position I looked at the 3/8 mounting stud at the top of the monopod. I was shocked to see that it was over 1/2" off! I rotated the monopod every 90 degrees to see how far off I was. The top of the mounting stud described a 1/2" radius circle even though the bubble level showed level!

"How can I over engineer a jig in order to fix this?” I thought.

Believe it or not, the answer was simple. I took a piece of aluminum bar stock, drilled a 3/8 hole perpendicular at one end then drilled and tapped a 1/4-20 in the other end. I drilled a 1/4 hole in the side of my machinist tool box and bolted the bar to my tool box. This gave me a 3/8 hole fixed in space at the level where my monopod would be. Using the same plumb bob, I marked an X on the floor directly below this hole.

Once I placed the monopod mounting stud into this hole and the base of the monopod on the X, I knew that my monopod was now sitting plumb and square. I began adjusting the bubble level until was accurate. Here comes the over engineering part: I made a bubble level mount for my monopod that allows for adjustment.

Remember the "smearing" I was experiencing while I was testing the Samyang 7.5 lens? That has all but disappeared. I have run out of light for today so I cannot dial this in further.

I cannot believe I shot all my Europe vacation (twice), Yosemite (twice) and all the hundreds of other panoramas with a non calibrated monopod. That is like eye balling a Nodal Ninja 5 and wondering why you have issues. I guess it is better to be lucky than good.

Re: How To Create Panoramic Portfolio Website

Hi ,

Thanks I will try it out, I let you know the further development.
Delia

Re: ptgui/hugin tutorials

Masks was introduced in version 9. We now have 9.1

Check Johns tutorials
www.johnhpanos.com/tuts.htm

And of course PTguis own.
www.ptgui.com/examples/
Hans

Re: Batting Cages

Smooth,

One thing I discovered today is that unless you are dead on with the sun in the exact center of the picture, you will get unsightly flare. It does not matter how many shots around you take, you will get an ugly sun picture.

This shot has the sun just slightly (and I mean slightly) off center. It gets worse the more off center you get.

If you take the camera off the mount and aim it directly at the sun (focus assistant helps out a great deal here) and take a picture, you have a very nice looking sun that can easily be patched in.

So much for my 45 degree theory.

I went back and took a look at other panoramas shot with the Sigma 8mm. The Sigma is much more forgiving and does not produce flare the moment you are just a little bit off center. The Samyang seems to be very bad with lens flare. It is just a matter of figuring out how to deal with it. The Sigma gives a small flare at the bottom of the picture. I usually hold my hand out to block the sun, then take a second picture. I use the second one to cover up the flare in the final pano. Looks like taking a hand held picture of the sun is the way to deal with the flare of the Samyang.

Dennis

Re: hugin stich for the images

wow, am a newby thank you Smooth

Re: HDR workflow

Yes, I was doing a bastardised version of that ever since I first read your page on it some years ago.

The big drawback with the 360P Adjuste is that the click stops for the elbow are in 15-degree intervals; not a big problem, it just means I see more of my footprint.

The swing adjuster actually was a godsend, since it was a clever bit of thinking that only someone like Dennis could come up with - I give him full credit for this "out-of-the-box" innovation, since I remember well his designs from a few years ago, which led on (I think) to NN coming up with their little addition. Well done all.

I have tried your technique Hans, with tilting, etc., and although this works terribly well when you have time to set things up (I have always had visions of 20,000 kr's worth of equipment ending up a tangled and useless mess on the floor), it is not something I warm to when trying to get a shot in the heat of the moment, or at least, before that black cloud on the horizon manages to behave like a tourist - that is, gets in the way and won't bugger off, well not until you have packed up your kit and gone home.

I have to say that, given there is not a lot to patch (as a rule), a shot down at 60 degrees does work, even if it is a little unruly when first stitching in PTGui. This has been made all the easier with the PTG masking capability, since it one can add control points and increase the area of the mask as one progresses. As I said, it is only a small area, so if you are careful not to move the camera too far back, the distortion is next to nothing.

I am interested to know why one needs to shoot the nadir at -60 degrees right. Surely the position is not that important, since all positions are relative to each other? Or is this a case of me being a little stupid (again)?

Jon

Mini NN3 (no Nadir adapter this time)

I hope you all have been following Smooth's and my experiences with the Sony NEX camera and different lens adapters. There is so much potential with this very small camera and the Samyang lens.

I continue to spend a lot of time solving several issues associated with getting the Samyang lens to work.

One major problem is a type of lens flare that I have never seen before.

Usually I can use intelligent fill to remove lens flare. This type of flare had got me stumped. I cannot use a different f stop since image quality will suffer.

I tried tilting the camera up 45 degrees to take another shot at the same view. The resulting image stitches in quite nicely and, with proper masking, deals with the flare.

Tilting up 45 degrees when using the R1 is a real pain and rather time consuming. Remember most of my stuff is outdoors in the bright sun shine. The sun sits still for nobody and will not wait for you to finish shooting your panorama. You gotta get your pano shot quickly so the shadows line up easier.

This very small pano head allows you to very quickly take the shot into the sun, tilt up 45 degrees, take a "patch" shot, and then continue on.

Tilted up 45 degrees:

I designed this so I can keep my right hand on the camera while photographing the entire sequence. My left hand takes care of steading the monopod as well as releasing the pin for upward rotation.

When deciding what and how much equipment to take along, one must look at the entire process, from picking the spot to publishing on the web. Is it better to use the D300/Sigma 8mm or the NEX/Samyang 7.5? At this point I am satisfied with the images out of the NEX. Is it worth taking this small pano head over the R1? For the NEX a resounding YES. This rig is still very much smaller and lighter than the D300 rig. The finished panoramas are very similar in appearance. I am almost ready to commit to taking this camera on my trip next week. I have not published any panoramas yet because I do not want to throw something together just for the sake of publishing.

Canon 8-15mm NPP settings with Nodal Ninja R1

Hi there,

Settings for calibrating this lens doesn't exists yet on Nodal Ninja website.

Any of you have some values to compare settings?

Thanks!

Re: The Great Debate: Which stitching Software is the best?

Hi Judy,

In Autopano Giga, the use of a stitching template does not shut down the control point system, but is supplementary to it. The template will add constraints to the detection, enabling a more accurate positioning of the control points. The detection of control points in the template mode uses the position of the images to search for control points in the good areas only. This avoids the bad links between images that can sometimes happen when not using a stitching template.

Our choice was to have a custom detection based on the stitching template, because when we tested some of the highest quality panoramic heads, we found that none was really precise to the pixel. The mix of the stitching templates and the control points gives a precision even superior to the pixel, as we have 2 decimal places.

Rami

Re: Samyang 8mm wide aperture tests

I have to moo in at this point , yet again, sorry.

Judy,

Work what you have, no excuses. I like rocks, clear night sky's, even the small spider watching me from the room corner I'm sitting next to has potential with a macro lens and proper lighting.

Make history on those rocks. Add yourself or others as appropriate. You are part of history, tomorrow.

And it does not really matter if you use a NEX or Nikon or ... whatever.

Make the shot with what you have, in general better equipment will only make a very small improvement on what you can already do if you know what you're doing.

Work on skills until you've exceeded your equipment and vision.

Robert

Show pano online?¿

Hi,

Im using a wordpress template which has a post type which allows you to show stuff in a gallery in a pop up window.

The means of doing this are:
Image:

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKS08be7s

Flash: www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/design.swf?...

Vimeo: vimeo.com/8245346

iFrame: www.apple.com?iframe=true&width=850&height=500

Currently Im using the Flash link type.....but Ive just flashificated a panorama which has 2 panos inside the project and I cant find the .swf files.

Could I link the panos using the iframe type and enter the html file? would I have to upload the whole folder, with all images, hotspots and plugins etc for every different pano?

What would be the best way to do it...some insight and advice please!

thanks!

Re: Back from the dead

Very nice panorama John, I really like the "feel" of the image.

Portuguese Republic Presidency Museum

My latest 360º work

museu.presidencia.pt/vv/

Re: Self levelling base for poles

Have you built one of these yet?
or have a company to help you?

I work with a group of engineers that are amazing at designing 3D models and scale reps very quickly! I actually just finished shooting a few virtual tours of their location in Lakeland, FL. the links are below.

www.tourwrist.com/tours/22233
www.tourwrist.com/tours/22234

If you have any interest in building one or ever trying to move towards production I would be happy to talk further and introduce you. I would love to use a self leveling pole!! I think those high shot VR's are so cool.

On a final note, not sure how far along you are in this project or if there is anything out there like this?. but, if you need we can assist you in marketing, patent searches, design arounds, patent filing and more. Just in case.

Best of luck! Cool idea!

cheers!

Re: Alentejo Night Sky, Portugal

Thnks janne. It´s possible make with tokina @ 11mm make 6 around , 1 zenit and 2 nadir? like the fishe eye tokina @ 10.

Point Betsie Lighthouse, Frankfort, Michigan

One of the many lighthouses that stand on the shores of the Great Lakes
www.360michigan.net/?p=540

Re: Definite versions of PTGui 9.1 are out

just did a giga w NN5 & 105mm about 6 rows x 30 images, align to grid worked great w that too

Re: TJLake -- North and South ends...

Bob Stone said:
Nice, loaded a little slower, maybe 10sec. Had never heard of TJ Lake but Google found this photo that looks like it was taken from almost the same vantage point. You were closer I think. Must be a "Kodak" spot...

www.davessierrafishing.com/destinations/tj_lake.h...

Can Crystal Crag be seen from a spot further left or is it behind you?

That's funny. Looks like a popular view point. You can see why

You can see Crystal Crag from the South end. Can't see it from where the North end pano was shot.

Re: Reasonable size for cube faces

Ok... a little more info from the mouth of Proggy since he returned:

It will be possible to use whatever size image, even when there are limits and rules to what can be done.

The max size for an image will be 2048x2048. That is a limit imposed by the GPU APIs (OpenGL ES 2.0 / DirectX 9.0c), The latest GPU APIs are respectively 4.0 and 11, but still not widely supported by GPU providers, and those do have higher limits... but the F11 support is not going for those as of now.

Using UV Mapping will enable users to use images of whatever size they want (only the programmer needs to worry about how it is set up... as pointed out by Ken), and going beyond the limit of 2048x2048 is also possible by linking processed images together (think multi tiled loading such as the giga pano projects make use of).

If the default power of two sizes are used, there will of course be less computing processing needed, but for most projects on modern computers the difference would not be felt at all by the end users.

Yes, F11 will have "unlimited" image size as one of the improvements over current limit of 8192 pixels... but that again is not telling the whole story.

Unlimited image size means on the stage -> BitmapData
When the image needs to be displayed into stage3D environment, the maximum sizes will be those mentioned above.

Probably it is more complicated than that... but this is the gist of it.

Re: stiching images for spherical panorama using Microsoft ICE

ICE will not handle circular fisheye lenses correctly. Hugin will be much better.

John

Re: "Little Prince in Quinta da Regaleira" Sintra, Portugal

haha thanks bob!

Re: R1 or R10?

thanks a lot,

i don't care about the nadir as there will be a logo over it.

See you soon!

Re: What pano head for Nex5+Samyang 7,5?

Another handheld test at 3200 iso

www.360cities.net/image/nex5-samyang-75-test-torr...

reasons to buy PtGui vs Hugin

I've used Ptgui for nearly a year and it's really a pro software and very good, but I'm using autopano giga and if you ask me it wins against ptgui and it's cheaper. you can give it a try and see how good and perfect it stitches panos.

Re: Nikkor 10.5mm Nikon D90 small room shooting

These are the little secrets of taking panos

Heinz

Re: Mac hardware recommendations for 10+ gigapixel projects

joergen geerds recently published some tips on optimizing a mac system for PTGui here -

www.facebook.com/groups/panoramicphotographers/do...

not sure if all this applies the same to autopano re: increasing efficiency, but have a look

sam

Re: EF 8-15 mm f4 L: review of the new Canon Fisheye Zoom

Michel, Thanks for assembling this comprehensive review. It's good to see included some comparison shots from other lenses as well as the Canon lens. Your conclusions suggest that the one year wait has been worth it.

John

Re: Nodal Ninja advice

badders said:
Try shooting:

4 around (90 deg apart) @ -15 deg tilt DOWN
2 up (180 deg apart) @ +60 deg tilt UP

I get great and consistent results with this configuration for an APS-C sensor camera like the D7000 and the Samyang 8mm.

Andrew Baddeley
www.360tacticalvr.com
stores.ebay.co.uk/360tacticalvr

Thanks, I'll try that. Up to now, I've been shooting 6 around at -15 (only because my Manfrotto doesn't do 5) plus Nadir and 1 Zenith at +70.
Your method sounds much faster.

Clay

Re: Sigma 8mm - Glare

I also use a lens pen- it does seam to push the oil around more than anything. But its good on the go.

I just noticed mico-spots on my sigma 8mm. I can't seam to remove the spots with either the lens pen or cloth and alcohol wipes. It hasn't really affected the photography, except for some minor glares every once and a while that I feel are results of the spots.

Here are a few. just to the right of the skateboarder? what do you think?
www.tourwrist.com/tours/19905

Has anyone else had this problem with their sigma 8mm?

Re: Help - Suggestion about interior pano 360x180

There are numerous tripods available that will work ok. A heavy, rigid one will perform best, but portability considerations often mean that a lighter and less rigid one is preferred. You wouldn't want to lug a heavy tripod around on a walking holiday, for instance. The other important factor is cost of course. Finding an acceptable balance between these factors is very much a personal choice. Just avoid tripods having non-detachable pan & tilt heads with sticky out arms and knobs.

There are also many panorama headsd available. See list at wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_head . Nodal Ninja happen to be popular because they are well designed and offer good value for money, with excellent support. But certainly there are alternatives that can be considered.

You might check out the lists of what equipment people are using for the quarterly World Wide Panorama events to see what are the popular brands: timhatch.com/projects/wwp-equipment .

John

Re: can I flip orientation of a single frame in PTGui?

As a matter of interest, because John questioned my statement I have just done some testing of my own.

I note that in Bridge if you rotate the image you are in effect changing the <tiff: Orientation> tags in the Raw Data which is part of the image Meta Data. Funnily it (the numeral value) changes form 1 to 6 to 3 to 8 in a clockwise direction.

Saving the .tif or .jpg from the RAW image drops the <tiff: Orientation> tag from the Meta Data completely. It just takes as the orientation being correct as shown.

Again, it simply doesn't matter as far as I can see.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Advice for a newbie?

FPP+FFC is another option. goo.gl/4G0SA That combo gives you the most complete panorama GUI environment there exists.

Here a few video tutorials that can give you an idea of how things are done: goo.gl/XxVeS

Trausti

Re: Getting the most out of my Sigma 8mm F3.5

You could take an extra shot of the area where the glare appear, with camera/lens at different angle and use that shot to eliminate the glare in the final render.

I shoot 5-10 deg up with the Sigma 8mm as Dennis suggested here before (I shoot 6 around to have extra overlap and use the sharpest part of the lens as pointed out by Smooth) typically just as Bob example before the 1mtr focus marking on the lens.

Sometimes it can be helpful however to shoot extra shots more up as I experienced with a pano I shot in Kuala Lumpur close to the huge Petronas towers, the top of the towers was less quality because close to the top of the lens (strong distortion). Coming home I wished I had shot extra of the towers tilted more up..

Re: Christian VI's mine

Looks great! Thanks for sharing!

Re: finding clients?

I try...but its true.
They have just made it so accessible for photographers to create a meaningful business for them and their clients. It's hard not to praise them. Bringing 360's/VR's back to life in a way no one else has been able to do.. as of yet? Are there other companies are out there that are providing products like this? I am excited to see whats to come and how we all will interact with the world and the virtual content that is being produced by photographers, amateurs and hobbyist. Even though we all know some of the world's best VR photographers are right here at panoguide..
You are only as good as the tools we use to complete our jobs. And that's what any virtual platform is, a tool, to market, sell and enhance your services as a photographer.
That being said, I hope that the videos we start to release can help photographers and entrepreneurs see the virtual photography business in a whole new light. I will also be looking towards those seasoned VR photographers for expert advice and input. As always, best of luck and good shooting.

Re: Base jumping: Pared de Aragón

Hi Kanga thanks, nice your panos and nadir work , the most I like is the first one. Sometimes I put some panos at panodigg.com:www.panodigg.com/user.php?login=juanito&view=hist... , at my blog are more:www.aragon360grados.com Not used Tourwrist by the moment.Now I´ll be at mountains for about a week.
Cheers!

Re: Virtual tour of Car - Need help with the NADIR shot - Please!

Thomas, I will look into the boom, looks like i can make this work. My only worry is that my D90 on the NN3 will not rotate property when its at that angle... but I will give it a try.

Help in creating radar in pano2vr

Hi folks,

I saw all the tutorials of pano2vr
before purchasing it and i think it has many technical
things in comparison to easypano tour-viewer.

In easypano creating radar is a single click job.

can you please guide me how i can create a radar in pano2vr for a real estate project ?

Re: nodal ninja 3 mk2 with sigma 8mm

I don't see the settings for the 550D listed on the NN site. www.nodalninja.com/support/camerasettings.html

It is always better to find the NPP on your own however, as the NN settings are not always 100% accurate. They are a good starting point though.

The best way imo to find the NPP, is to follow this thread by Smooth: tinyurl.com/lx86lz
Smooth calls it the "Optimal Stitching Position". This method takes some time but is well woth it as you will not need to do it again and you know it is correct. You will also learn as you go.

The Sigma 8mm does have notorious soft focus to begin with so you will need to investigate sharpening methods in post. See the settings in this thread, they have given me, and others pretty good results.

www.panoguide.com/forums/qna/9657/

Seems this focus question has been answered for you before??

Geneva Fountain at dusk, one rainy day !

Hi all ! It's been a long time since I shot VR panoramas, but yesterday I took the opportunity to make one, while I was walking on Geneva lakeside, near the Fountain ! It was raining, and the sun was just setting over the Jura Mountains...

Here's the "equirectangular" view:

...and the URL where I uploaded the 360x180 degrees panorama: www.360cities.net/image/dsc3130-33-ptgui-p2vr-con....20,-1.00,96.8 !

TIP: if you click on the OPEN MAP sign (on the center left), you will have a Google Map of the location !

Have fun !

J-P.

Re: Detailed tutorial of self made panoheads, including CAD drawings

You are right, it is possible to shoot a spherical pano with a fisheye lens and a more simple panohead, e.g. one like yours. By the way, I also found your panohead while doing my first researches and I have to admit that it's a pretty good result for the price.

But I think, there are still reasons to build it more sturdy and precise. First, if you make a panorama without a fisheye, maybe you want to have it in really high resolution and so shooting with 30mm, I guess you want your panohead as precise as possible.

Second, and that is the real reason for me: If you are doing more that one pano in a project you want to keep the post-processing as easy and as reproducible as possible. Last weekend I shot 26 panoramas at 13 places, in each case one at daytime and one at night. Post-processing of the images was done quite fast and I guess this is because I can rely on the alignment of the horizon and so on and I had to do little to no manual work while stitching.

And of course, for fellas like me it's just the fun of making it. It's why this won't be my last panohead, that's for sure

Re: What time does it take to stitch 3 fisheye pictures?

The answer is nothing to do with the software or hardware you use, it is to do with the artistic standards that you set yourself.

Some panos have taken me two or three days to cobble together.

Re: R1 or Atome?

What a day today.....

The R1 can be set to different angles while R10 has a fixed tilt.

I agree very much with all what is said above.

Another add-on: Mounted with Quick Mount Mini System to top of the pole you can very easy take off the whole system from the pole. Camera stays on top of R1/R10.

Plus the R1/R10 Zenith Adapter not to forget to mention.

Seems to be a good day today.

Heinz

BTW: NN and Sony NEX-5 : www.nodalninja.com/forum/showthread.php?4573-The-...

Re: New Nikon Interchangeable lens camera revealed...

Yeah, but the press release is a spectacular tome of every marketing cliche that has ever been used to sell a camera.

I think they are trying for a Pulitzer.

Any test panos with the Canon 8-15mm?

I'm seriously tempted by this lens, early reports indicate it's a great piece of glass. The way it handles in sun is supposed to be fantastic.

Does anyone know if there are any test panos or examples out there with this lens as the glass used? I would love to see some direct comparisons of say a Sigma 8mm and the canon!

Re: Panorama Viewer with Zoom option

You want Deep Zoom Composer.

www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displa...

Import your image(s) compose them then export, it even puts them in a web page for you.

It is also faster/slicker than the flash based options.

Re: Multiangle Panoramic Gimbal Bracket- Good?

So here is the first consumer review:

Sounds promising for $140. (if it is still that much seems to me that the price went up )

www.flickr.com/groups/panoramas/discuss/721576276...

Re: NEX-5 and 10.5mm lens

sigma8mm 、アダプターは必要

Re: HD one shot solution

fact is i can't find any sample of pano made with this head.

the one Agnos shows is made outside on a pole at 3,5m

Re: Ordesa climb (Nex 5 + Samyang 7,5)

Thanks for oponions , you are reason, but always I try at first field of view get the most interesting angle of panonorama , may be photos should be taken a little far away.I try to remake.
Thanks.
Juan

Re: National Trout Memorial, Kalksaka Michigan

You are right John, I did kinda slide on the sky in this pan.

0-360 Panoramic Optic with Canon G9 combo for sale

Hi

I'm selling my 0-360 Panoramic Optic with its Canon G9.
Camera and optic are like new, both in their original box.

Price reduced to 500€ + shipping costs to Europe only, products located in France.

Some pics available at www.leboncoin.fr/image_son/232948542.htm?ca=22_s

Please feel free to ask details by email: thomas(dot)demolliens(at)immersium(dot)fr

Regards,
Thomas

Re: pano pro lens 360 virtual tour one shoot for sale

I'm interested in purchasing this. my name is Richard Mapp.my email is rrmapp@gmail.com
Do you have the compact adapter for the lens? My Skype I'd is mapprr.

Re: Samyang Alpha mount + NEX adapter for sale

It's a good lens. But it's not the right lens for a NEX. It works fine with the adapter. But it really is for an Alpha mount camera. That's the best match. No complaint about the optics.

And it's just a little too big and heavy to stuff in my daypack for a walk in the woods.

Re: Need Feedback for this....

I emailed Support at 3dvista.com to alert them to the inappropriate sample images. I received a prompt response which acknowledged their mistake and said that the page would be corrected when their web designer returned from vacation at the end of September.

John

Re: camera focus

Ryan,

Assuming you use the Sigma 8mm f/3.5 seeing your uploaded image, don't let the camera/lens focus automatically. Set the camera to manual focus and put lens focus ring (manually) between the 0.5m/1ft and 1m/3ft point as shown here by Bob;

Infinity focus setting on the Sigma 8mm doesn't give the best sharpness.
Read this thread also; www.panoguide.com/forums/qna/9657/

Re: taking nadir photo

Ryan,

There are a couple of techniques for shooting the Nadir. The "best" is the one that works best for you.

If you have a Nodal Ninja with the Nadir adapter, you take your Nadir shot, swing the camera out, slide the tripod over, take your patch shot, swing the camera back. Total piece of cake with no adjustments to anything other than swinging the camera out then back.

Another option (which I use when using a monopod) is to take a hand held patch shot or an offset patch shot (if you are dealing with shadows). You would then follow John's tutorial on PTGui's viewpoint correction.

Dennis

Re: For Sale: Panosaurus Rex Panoramic Tripod Head

To be honest, I couldn't remember how much it cost new. But the fact is, it has been discontinued and if you're living in the UK the cheapest alternative is the Panosaurus 2.0, which costs more than £140.

In any case, there's a Best Offer option on the eBay listing...

Re: One more lens/pano-head question

Jesse

The Canon 50mm is one of the sharpest lenses Canon have. I know it sounds weird as the prize is so low, I think I paid around $100
Still it is sharper than most zoom lenses which costs 10 times more.
www.photozone.de/Reviews/160-canon-ef-50mm-f18-ii...

The only bad in it is that it may have some flare but that would not at all be a problem with the type of panos you do.
It is only a problem if you shoot directly in the sun.

Hans

Re: Lense Quries & About Camera

Hey All guys Thanks for reply!

DenisS..
I normally will have to shoot interiors of Hotels and Clubs and vehicles. I haven't planned any thing for remote but mostly I will go for a wireless remote. Weight is not my primary concern. I need Panorama of medium short to medium ranges not much long.

Mostly I will go for NEX-5 with a E16mm F/2.8 'pancake' lens ....I think it would work for my purposes....

Re: Adobe Flash vs Apple.... where to now?

Personally, Win 7 phones and tablets for me. Flash for everyone I say

Re: Question about phone pano

Who cares about the interface!! Guys your being WAY too picky. Remember this was done with a PHONE!! NOT a camera, but a PHONE!! Yeah it has serious problems if it was a commercial pano and shot with a CAMERA. But it's NOT!! There are people who couldn't produce this with hundreds of $$ worth of gear. Mate I'm with you, for a PHONE this is an awesome effort and I would love to be able to produce something like this with my iPhone. Hell, just for the fun of it.

Re: How many images with Zenitar 16mm on full frame camera?

Peter Berger said:
I asked about this service in biggest photo/video shop in my country, but they dont provide such service and I cant do it by myself, so I will have to send to Germany...

Yes, well it hardly a job for a camera shop. This is a job for a machine shop engineer. Send it to Tobias he can sort it all out for you.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: krpano: Do you upload pano.SWF or pano.JPG?

David, krpano and pano2VR are both good products, but very different.

krpano is a tool best used today by those comfortable with programming, Pano2VR is a tool best used when you need a relatively simple 360 that's quick and easy to produce.

with krpano, to answer your question, you have a few different batch or droplet files that you would drag the output from PTGUI (jpeg) onto. Depending on the droplet used, it would produce a single file, or series of files that you would need to upload.

I would suggest going to the krpano site and reviewing the tutorials if you want to learn about krpano.

cheers,

Robert

Loading sequence FPP and Flashificator¿?

Hi, Im trying to get my load sequence right, but comparing to others I can see theres a problem with mine, the loading graphic pops up on 2 ocassions.....One at the begging and then another when its loading the prepano greyscale pano?¿.......What I would like is my loading screen to come up with a black background....and only start loading the pano once its reached 100 % then load the greyscale...and finally the pano, sorry maybe with my example you can appreciate my problem and what Im doing wrong:

elchevirtual.com/pano/rio_madrid/

Introducing PanoEdit

Hello!

I'd like to introduce PanoEdit, an all-new panorama stitching app for Mac. It is designed with simplicity, one click stitching workflow in mind. PanoEdit is currently available for beta testing, for download please visit www.panoedit.com. We would love to get any feedback on PanoEdit.

Alexander.

The im360 app has just been released and plays 3d 360Video

A couple of my latest videos are now showcased in the coolest possible way. Hasbro has made a case that holds your Iphone called my3D and when powered by the im360 app, creates a 3d 360 video environment. In the case of my videos, i know its a pseudo 3D but it still looks really good. To watch in 3d 360 without the my3D toy you will need the king kong 3D glasses with the red and the blue lenses.
If you wanted a my3D you can pick one up at toysrus, target, walmart.

itunes.apple.com/ca/app/im360/id437314677?mt=8

on.fb.me/oJgk8G

Re: Vancouver Photographers

Not sure if im to late here but i am in Vancouver and ready to go. My site is northstudio360.com and my name is ryan whitehead. I would be happy to chat with you about what your needs are. ryan@northstudio360.com

Tour Wrist API Released

Panoramic photography software developers:
Tour Wrist is pleased to provide you with access to our new publishing API. With this API, you have the potential to greatly extend the use and value of the images your users are already producing. Go from simple delivery to a robust marketing and distribution platform that's playing an important role in defining the future of panoramic photography.

Best of all, do it for free. Thanks to Tour Wrist's new pricing model, it's free to post content. And as a developer, it's free to use the API too. In short, you gain a powerful addition to your value proposition. We'll even promote your software on our app and website, boosting your market exposure.

To review our easy documentation, register, add your software or app and test-drive our console, visit tools.tourwrist.com/developer

And if you have any questions, please fee free to contact us: api [at] tourwrist.com

Re: Newbie asking for help

Hi,

when you stitch, all the distortion will be solved by software. A 50mm lens asks a lot more shots.

www.frankvanderpol.nl/fov_pan_calc.htm to check out the number of shots needed per row.

Most of use use PTGuiPro. But there are a lot of other programs as well.

You can download a trial: www.PTGui.com

Heinz

Re: Facebook tagging on panorama

Hi there

Hope it's ok to bring this thread back from the dead. I've released a krpano plugin to do just this: krpano.com/plugins/userplugins/panotag/#top

Manuel

Re: dxn-karting

Hi all, just want to let you know that the high-speed mirror has been removed.

Thank you for the visits,
Dorin

Re: Ptgui lens settings for Samyang8/D7000

HFOV is the number that is actually used in optimization, any focal length/crop factor combination that gives the same field of view works the same.

Seeking 360 Photographers + Stitchers in Chicagoland Area

Please e-mail vito (AT) 360revo.com to discuss further.

Thank you.

Re: how are CGI interior panos done...?

Certainly it can be done, I've produced many using 3D Studio Viz. I'm surprised that an architect today would say it can't.

You need:
CAD drawings in 2D, Plans and Elevations
3D modeling and rendering software such as 3D Studio MAX
Someone competent in 3D modeling and rendering.

3D Studio Viz can create VR panoramas directly but its been replaced by 3D Studio MAX. I presume the same functions are available. If not, you could produce the images and stitch them conventionally.

A quick Google gives you this...
www.cadresolution.com/3d-panoramic-view.php

Hope this helps,

Clay

Re: Compact setup for hiking/cycling/travel revisited

I'm thinking about a bracket which rotates freely on a tripod base using a pass through stud like this

Re: Samsung Galaxy S II I9100 - $600USD

no longer available

Re: My Portfolio 360 Virtual Tours ( Portuguese)

Hi thank you for the feedback, it´s important if we are going in the right way.

Blocky Jp

The equipment used to make the showroom

DSLR: Canon 60D
Lense :Tokina 10-17mm Fisheye ( focal lenght @10mm)
Tripod: BRAUN Professional Tripod 5000 W/ NN3

Photo ( Jpg )
ISO: 100
Exposure Time: 0.6sec
F-stop: f/10

Software
- Ptgui 9.1 beta
- Pano2vr 3.1 64bits

Photoshop
- vibrance tool
- smart sharpen
- level´s
- offset
- warp tool
- clone stamp tool

For interior´s photo with exterior light it´s important take a pictures for the hdr, but sometimes i forget

I made lately 2 virtual tours of an hotel and a museum,more 2 week´s and are online and i will share my new works.

John you´ve a great tutorial´s site it´s awesome. The "FINDING THE NO-PARALLAX POINT" help me a lot! I think we will need always the warp and clone stamp tool.

Demon thank´s for your feedback, i´m a webdesigner(architect) and help a lot in developing virtual tours. I use always the full browser presentation and in the front of the swf,i put div´s to put information and menu´s. I´m testing html5 now to see the pano´s in the ipad/iphone.

Anyone is on the html5 era?

Re: Phone V Sensor Cameras

tallmanirl said:
I've read that the sharpness technology for phone cameras is proceeding much faster currently than that for sensor cameras. No mention in the article was specifically made of DSLRs. What are your opinions on this?

When you have a small sensor (so this apply to compacts too not only to phones) the result is a greater DOF, that can result in a sharpen image. Sure the glass matter.

cheers,
Dorin

For Sale: Complete Tour Wrist Photo Professional Kit - Reduced Price!

I am selling a Tour Wrist Photo Professional Kit. Listed at $2700. I'm willing to let it go for $2300 (or best offer). I'll also cover the shipping.

Nikon® D5000 Body
Sigma® 8mm Fisheye
Nodal Ninja® R1
Manfrotto® 190XB
Nikon® Wired Remote
Spare Nikon® Battery
Nikon® Lens Pen
Memory Card+Reader
Custom Cruzer® Case
PTGui™ Pro Software
Pano2VR™ Software

Re: Recommendation for Monitor for 300 $US?

accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=...

Once you go Dell Ultrasharp, it is hard to go back. I do not know how the shipping would work out in Germany.

Re: Nikon P6000 + FC-E8 for HDR?

thomash2 said:
Just read a little about real estate photography franchising. I think I'm going to stay away from this, and just take a few photo jobs for small change until I find some architectural work.

Very wise to stay away from cut-throat low cost real estate photography franchises I feel.

The Conservation Dept. idea sounds interesting, will you follow that up?

Are there no opportunities around the current Rugby World Cup?

Andrew

Subscriptions?

Progress on thread subscriptions?

Thanks

Employment possibly wanted

Hello,
I am looking for employment with work relating to photography, graphic design, and architecture, or perhaps something different and exciting.

I am currently in New Zealand, but would consider in a few months time to relocate anywhere in the world, as long as there is a low risk of political and natural disasters, where there is fairly adequate infrastructure and healthcare.

I am American, although I do speak some Mandarin and Hokkien, and would be able to pick up Spanish with a bit of a refresher.

Countries where I can possibly apply for non-sponsored work visas are Germany, Australia, Singapore, and Canada.

I have a website with samples of work.
Spherical photography:
www.thomashuang.net/pano/pano.htm

Other projects:
www.thomashuang.net/projects.html

CV:
www.thomashuang.net/thomashuangresume.pdf

Thomas

Re: Samyang fisheye for 4/3 news release, out in september

We've got stocks of the lens arriving next week and will be testing and posting images and panoramas using an Olympus E-P3.

Andrew Baddeley
www.360tacticalvr.com
stores.ebay.co.uk/360tacticalvr

Lens Ring for Canon EF 8-15mm F4 L shipping soon

Fanotec is proud to release the long anticipated lens ring for Canon EF 8-15mm F4 L.

Zoom and manual focusing rings are accessible. AF/ MF and focal length limit switches are covered.
Luckily, Canon 8-15mm is in similar size to Sigma fisheyes. The lens ring for Sigma 8mm / 15mm (Canon Mount) can used on Canon 8-15mm lens by replacing the plastic insert. Existing owners of this lens ring can simply buy the insert to use it on the new Canon 8-15mm.
The lens ring will be available for shipping next week.

Nick

Re: Under a fractal tree at HorseShoe Lake...

yes , at chemical fim , longer exposures has another consecuences too , like reciprocity failure effect , but like long exposure noise doesn´t affect at normal photos.

Re: reverse pano/ object movie

yeah i downloaded it to my desktop and was able to view it in quicktime it just would not open in quicktime when clicked from the link automatically.

looks like we ended up with near the same result.

Re: Alright this is bothering the heck out of me

That's the older version of the Samyang 14mm. It's OK but not as good as the new version. It's hard to find because it's not made any more, and the cheap price is probably because the seller wants to get rid of old stock of a discontinued lens.

New PC needed: AMD Phenom II X6 OK?

Hi all,

I am on a budget and need a new PC.
What do you think of this one for stitching?

I am going to to install Ubuntu 10.4 and then run nona and enblend by scripts mostly.

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6x3,2GHz, 16GB RAM, GTX550Ti, 1 GB HDD, USB 3.0

Details:
www.ebay.de/itm/AMD-Phenom-II-X6-1090T-6x3-2GHz-1...

Thanks.

Re: Problem with sun

Or shoot your pictures early in the morning or later in the evening when the sun is not quite so bright. Shooting RAW will also give you more control.

Spheron SpheroCam Panoramic Camera For Sale

PRICE: AUD$20,000 neg

CONDITION:
The camera is in mint condition and was only used for a period of two years. The camera was recently shipped over to Spheron in Germany to have the firmware upgraded and also had the motor, gears and clutch upgraded as well. Since the refurbishment I haven’t used the camera. It is in perfect working order. Included in the kit is all the original software CD's, manuals and all original equipment that came with the camera. There are no scratches or dents on the camera casing, its perfect, and the glass element inside the camera is clear and in perfect condition. There are a few scuff marks on the battery casing but nothing major. There are a few scratches on the manfrotto tripod but they are from normal wear and tear. The hard Pelican case is in good condition. Looking to send this camera to a good home. These cameras are built to order and don't come up for sale very often!

The Spheron SpheroCam camera is the perfect tool for photographers who want to capture full spherical images with ultra-high resolution and the highest quality. The SpheroCam is fully operated via the intuitive interface of Spheron's specially developed operating software. While rotating around its vertical axis, the unique colour sensor captures the surrounding scenery in vertical scan lines. Pixel by pixel. From floor to ceiling, or from the ground to the blue sky.

The results can be inspected in real-time on the driving laptop's display during the scan. The built-in post-processing engine comes with optimized algorithms for ultimate image quality. Capture a fully spherical 360º x 180º panoramic image in one scan. No stitching required!

KEY FEATURES:
• Full spherical digital images (360°x180°) in a single rotational pass
• Dynamic range of 12-f stops
• Highest-quality images with a resolution of up to 50 megapixels! (5,300x 10,600 pixels)
• 48-bit (3 x 16 bits RGB) colour depth per pixel
• Fast operation and scanning time
• Auto post-processing
• Also perfectly suited for cylindrical panoramas with longer focal lengh lenses

BENEFITS AT A GLANCE:
• Intuitive user software interface on attached laptop display designed for reliable, easy and fast image capturing, preview and storage.
• Significant time and cost savings compared to conventional techniques - one scan and it is all done. No stitching required therefore no stitching errors or mismatching seams. No problems with geometric or colorimetric inaccuracy.
• Certainty of results: quick preview check on the laptop display.
• Create a virtual tour of a location or scene which allows the viewer to look around, zoom in, to examine details in compete 360º x 180º.

CAMERA KIT COMPONENTS:
• Spheron SpheroCam camera
• 2 USB camera cables
• Rechargeable studio power supply
• AC/DC battery charger
• 2 tripod mounting clamps
• Nikon Nikkor AF D 16mm 2.8 diagonal fisheye lens
• White balance cap
• Pelican Camera Case – Black
• Manfrotto 055CLB Tripod – Black
• Manfrotto 029 tripod head
• Manfrotto Mbag 100 padded tripod bag
• 2x CD-Rom with Spheron software + lens data
• LAPTOP IS NOT INCLUDED!

Will ship anywhere in Australia or overseas for additional fee.
Any questions or to see photos of the kit, please email me at nick@vrtours.com.au.

Re: Taking Measurements

Autodesk Image Modeler can give you measurements if you have enough images and a measured reference. It works with equirectangular images and standard shots. Image Modeler used to be a Realviz product, now you can only get it thrown in with another Autodesk product.
usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123...

Also, there are Photogrammetry freeware products out there, here's one.
www.efoto.eng.uerj.br/

Don't try to re-invent the wheel, I think its more complicated math than we think.

Regards,
Clay

Re: Time to Stitch

Just to give you an example of what it takes to stitch your size and number of images.

I used 25 images from a gigapixel pano which was taken with an 180mm lens on a D7000 which is a 16 mp camera.

Loading generating controlpoints and optimizing in PTGui took 60 sec.
The actual stitch warping, blending and saving took 45 sec.

The Computer is just a standard iMac i7 2.8gHz with 4 cores and 8 gB ram.
Just standard built in disc used for images and tempfiles.

So if you use a template for stitching and shoot all you images with a proper head you can load them in batch stitcher and stitch 100 panoramas in less than 4 hours.

But of course it all depends on what your subject is. If it does not have proper details for controlpoints it may need to be setup and optimized manually.

Hans

Re: [Canon] Shaved Tokina 10-17 Mint condition

felipe
I'm afraid not

Just a regular cell phone.

But you can e-mail me directly at

djaurand at aol dot com

Re: nadir editing

thanks all. I didn't realise PTP was capable of this, its just what i was looking for

Re: Samyang 7mm Micro Four Thirds FE

Yeah it is
See www.panoguide.com/forums/tipsntricks/9644/

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Pano-pro

No-one?
What about for fun?
Gus

Re: Inserting Foreground Flowers

Another solution is to find a place that offers a good composition.....

Re: panorama (90° or less) vs wide angle

Yes Bert,

there would be no perspective difference but you would have a lot more pixels to play with.

This is a test image taken at 17mm and 100mm: www.wirestam.com/panos/Sigma/flcompare.html

Tommy

Re: mirrors!

You have to shoot the scene multiple times with the tripod in different non overlapping positions (within the mirror reflection). Layer the multiple panoramas and brush away the tripod from each layer revealing the clean area from another panoramas until you have the desired result and then flatten and save.

Single mirror requires two panoramas. More mirrors = more movement of tripod and thus more panoramas.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: newbie question

londoner said:
By the way, love so many of the panos you guys are creating. Just viewed the Canada ones, Judy. So beautiful.

Thanks so much.

I cleared my browser cache, and your pano now loads to 100% for me. I think you have it solved.

Judy

NN M1-S / 550D / Sigma 8mm f3.5 EX DG rail settings...

hi all,

Anyone out there with this combo wish to share the rail settings? With or without NN QRS plate on upper rail...

thanks

Stu

NN5 / 7D / Sigma 8mm f3.5 EX DG rail settings...

hi all,

Anyone out there with this combo wish to share the rail settings? With or without NN QRS plate on upper rail...

thanks

Stu

Re: IR remote control for NEX?

Smooth said:
www.gentles.ltd.uk/gentled/

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

That's it -- thanks.

Re: Fish-eye lens for full frame (Canon 5D Mark II)

Never, never remove one of the glasses of a lens system. !
It's not one glass, it's a system and tested before sale as a set !

The SY is a fine lens with a nice projection and is sharp towards edges.
Flare can be an issue but that is with all lenses (more or less)

Shaving the hood of FE lenses doesn't matter that much.

Re: Sacre bleu

Henri Smeets said:
"It's had a workover!"

Surely, still a unique shot!

I wasn't and didn't pass any comment on whether it was good or bad or if I liked it one way or another. I posted the link to show it's history. Sparked by Hans' post.

My comment "It's had a workover!" was my observation based on the link provided.

Regards, Smooth
www.omnipix.com.au

Re: Question about detent rings & the NN3

hindenhaag said:
Jesse,

with 18mm you should take 3 rows with 12 stops with 30º in each row in portrait mode.

Pitch would be +45º, 0º, -45º.

Heinz

Heinz, Jesse is not looking for 360°x180°. He wants to do partial panos to print. 180°x whatever.

Re: what is missing from NN3mkII standard package with basic rotator?

Ryan,

I was searching for the video from Andrew:

www.youtube.com/user/360tacticalvr

Demonstrates how you change from NN3 Standard rotator to RD8/RD16.

Cheers.
Heinz

Re: Pano head question

Jano,

just checked the settings for you:

Max LRS on NN3 MKII is 70mm with NN Nadir Adapter and 76mm without.

Max URS with CP-2 is 116.5mm. This would be in the range for Sigma 10-20 @zoom 20.

I tested D300s with Nikkor 16-85 VR, this adds 15 g more compared to your Sigma 10-20. You have to fix the rotator knob very tight to keep this weight in place. This is at the end of the line for NN3.

Samyang 8mm/f3.5 has an URS of 97 with D300/s Test with your own equipment.

www.easypano.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?...

www.johnhpanos.com/epcalib.htm

So once again, check NN4 as well.

Regards,
Heinz

BTW: I have expected the battery grip answer... . That's why I said "some do".

Re: Who are your clients?

BTW, is there somebody who makes a living only by VR photography or its just a side job for most of you?

Re: HDR Pano

You will probably need more exposures for such high contrast situations as shooting in interiors with windows. Could you show us your result?

Re: Beginner need some basic help!

I appreciate the advise guys.

Chase

Re: Need your help in developing custom camera plates

S5 Pro body is identical to D200 body.

Re: Silverhorn Creek, Banff Park

Judy-A said:
Robert Harshman said:
Judy,

Why not try a 360 close to the camp fire, with a night sky of stars.

Just a thought.
Ha! Now there’s a challenging assignment. It would be easier to paint than photograph
Judy

Any progress here?

If you don't do it soon I've have to do it. Paint, photo stitched, processed via PS, not really much difference ?

I have a vision of this scene, it's a grand view in 360, stars and all. Sun is setting much earlier now in your woods.

Great photo's take so much more than just lucky to be there. Vision and experience make it work.

Even trying?

Cheers,

Robert

Re: Affordable fish eye lens for Sony alpha 350 for full 360 with up and down pans

chanua johnson said:
Hi;

I am wondering what the besh fish eye lens for use with a Sony alpha 350 to create a for full 360 with up and down pans.

Both are the Samyang 8mm lens rebranded. Its a manual lens with great optics, and good value for the money. I have it on my Nikon D7000 and am very happy with the results.

Many of the photographers here also use it.

Regards,
Clay

Re: advantages of NN3 with RD8 rotator over NN3MkII complete package?

Ryan,

NN3 RD8 rotator comes without "complete package" which contains for example detend rings. If you order NN3 RD8 Rotator, the RD8 is mounted to the lower rail instead of the standard rotator. You do not need the"complete package" for RD8.

Reasons to go for RD8 are all mentioned above. I'd go for it too. Cost you a lot more money if you decide later on to change it against standard rotator.

store.nodalninja.com/products/NN3-MKII-Starter-Pa...

store.nodalninja.com/products/NN3-MKII-RD8.html

store.nodalninja.com/categories/Rotators/

Upgrade from standard to RD8 is $90, new RD8 later on $149.95. Plus extra transport. Plus may be extra detend rings for standard rotator right now for your equipment.

Regards,
Heinz

Re: Rapid Bucuresti - Slask Wroclaw

mediavets said:
DorinDXN said:
Hi all
www.livepanoramas.com/event/rapid-slask/

The gear used:
Canon 350D, Sigma 8mm 3.5 with R1 lensring on top of a Fanotec Pole Series 2 complete (up to 6 m. high)

Dorin
At what height was the pole for this shoot?

How do you control the camera when it is mounted on a high pole and out of reach?

Do you need two people for a pole shoot like this?

Andrew

Hi Andrew, there are 65 panos in that event, the heights are from around 1.5 m up to 6 m.
Only one man needed (me), I'm using a remote control to fire the trigger of the camera, other time I'm using a extention active USB cable to fully control the camera, I'm having a running notebook in my backpack, it communicate with me with sinthesed voice (self wrote software) I controll the notebook via a numeric keypad on USB and recently via Bluetooth from my phone Nokia 2330 that's way better as I have some visual feedback on pnone's display and not only the voice.

But I stopped in using the cable for now until I'll made a new pole base with a cylindric rotator (two cylinders with the dettent plunger on the external cylinder) and so the USB cable (spring type) will be inside of the pole) trough the rotator

When I'm not using the cable I only fire the camera via a RF remote like here, where I used 2 cameras for 3D

www.livepanoramas.com/NN/Pole-Series-2-Complete.h...

If you cannot see the movie, let me know and I'll mirror it for a while. You may see also the white vodafone stick I'm using to have the panos online.

BTW with a single camera things are going much faster, but I'm working on a solution to have that speed with two cameras as well, I will show some speedy panos with 2 cameras in a week or two.

cheers,
Dorin