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high res panormaic shots ?? Help!

Re: high res panormaic shots ?? Help! Posted: 13 May 2008 at 17:57 GMT	go to thread
Hi, Thanks to everyone for helping me out here. Unfortunately im starting to get quiet confused with all the different answers im getting. It seems that there are a few different approaches to this VR stuff. I was looking for a solution with a $1000 budget for majority of my work will be showcasing homes. However i do not want to limit myself to just still subjects or rooms. Would a system like the Nodal Ninja and a fisheye lens allow me to achieve these super high res panos? When shooting with a system like the Nodal Ninja or similar how many shots are necessary to complete the full 360? Its extremely impressive how some of these VR's you can look straight up to the sky and straight down and not see any of the equipment. Will a fisheye lens allow me to capture the floor and ceiling in 1 shot? Then all i would need would be rotate the panoramic tripod head until enough shots are captured to do the 360? Sorry again for so many questions, but alot of this equipment is pricey and I don't want to make another mistake like i did with the purchase of a $600 0-360 1shot lens.
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Re: high res panormaic shots ?? Help! Posted: 12 May 2008 at 16:18 GMT updated: 12 May 2008 at 16:27 GMT	go to thread
wow this is amazing! thanks for the info! You guys have been a huge help!! Thanks a bunch - I have another question regarding the picture i posted above. Was that taken with multiple shots? and then stitched together? That shot was taken in Downtown Toronto, there are dozens and dozens of people walking back in forth in that area how was he able to take the full 360 shot without any blurring or people being in the same shot twice. This is what leads me to believe it was a full 360 shot. Can anyone explain please? Thanks! -Andre
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high res panormaic shots ?? Help! Posted: 8 May 2008 at 16:09 GMT updated: 8 May 2008 at 16:10 GMT	go to thread
Hey everyone, Long time reader not so much a poster. Here is my dilemma, i purchased a 0-360 lens about 6 months and i'm just not satisfied with the quality of the 1 shot panoramic tours. I come across images such as this: they are soo large and high res everything is so crisp (Tour - www.viewat.org/?i=en&sec=pn&id_pn=1442&rc=1 ) i know its with a fisheye lens and a Nodal ninja 3 Unfortunately i haven't used either a fisheye nor the nn3, and not sure what needs to be purchased nor how it works. I have a DSLR Canon 30D What is the best way to get such high res panoramic pictures. My budget is about $1000 can this be achieved? Any help is always greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Re: canon 30d and 0-360 lens - bad pictures Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 18:04 GMT	go to thread
here are the tips that were given to me: Here are a few things that will improve the image quality: 1) Zoom in a little more. Ignore that white ring of light around the image donut. Zoom in until the image donut (reflection of the mirror) touches either the top or bottom of the frame. 2) Focus slightly closer if necessary. 3) Once you get the right focus and zoom positions, mark them on the side of the lens with a pencil. Every shot uses the same focus and zoom positions. 4) Your Exposure Compensation ( [+/-] ) is set to +0.7, which will slightly overexpose the image. Sometime you want to use that, but not often. 5) Your ISO is set to 1600. Set that to 200, per the instructions. 6) Turn the Aperture up to F16 or higher (F22 is better). 2 of these were shot at F5.0, which will not get the entire mirror into focus. 7) I cannot tell what your metering setting was. You'll want to experiment with that
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Re: canon 30d and 0-360 lens - bad pictures Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 17:19 GMT	go to thread
thanks for the tips. Ken from 0-360.com just emailed me and gave me detailed instructions and tips i have been able to get high res panoramic images now. Great customer service on their part.
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canon 30d and 0-360 lens - bad pictures Posted: 10 Oct 2007 at 15:24 GMT	go to thread
Hey everyone, Been reading and reading on this site the last few weeks and decided to join the forum. I purchase the canon 30d and the 0-360 lens about 1 month ago i love my new camera the canon 30d is awesome. But i cant seem to get clear pictures with the 0-360 lens. I did read reviews saying that you get medium quality pictures with this lens but i seen some people take some extremely large and clear ones. But yet i cant even get remotely close to it. Does anyone have any experience with this lens and have any tips or suggestions? All your help is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Andre
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