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A new type of virtual tour
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Re: A new type of virtual tour
Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 11:17 GMT
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Panowalker has been around for a while now, so think most will have seen it before. www.easypano.com/panowalker.html I think for some projects it could be useful, but personally I am not a fan of the system.
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Christmas is coming, what should I buy for my wife?
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Re: Christmas is coming, what should I buy for my wife?
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 at 9:15 GMT
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A written promise to help carry her gear.
 Thats a bit extreme isnt it. 
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Help with 360 panoramic pictures for house flash virtual tour?
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Re: Help with 360 panoramic pictures for house flash virtual tour?
Posted: 9 Nov 2010 at 9:13 GMT
updated: 9 Nov 2010 at 9:26 GMT
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Chris Aidel said: Hi Peter, what about the Samyang 8 mm f/3.5 fisheye?
How is that one compare to the Sigma 8mm?
Is there a difference?
The Samyang is half of the Sigma price, is it because of the name?
Regards!
I have never used a samyang and when I bought my sigma, I didnt know anything about that alternative. There a few here who do use it and use it successfully, I really do not think the sigma is any better than the samyang it just wasnt an option I had at the time. But that is just my non-expert opinion from the results I have seen from others. In saying that, I have seen people produce better results with their sigma's than I have with mine, I have also seen better produced with a bog standard 18-55 lens than I have managed to turn out. So, for a large part I think that the differences are not all down to what equipment is used, it is how the equipment is used that separates. For considerations on what lens to use, the main thing would be how many photos you want to take to cover the sphere and how much you want to pay. A samyang would I think be a good choice especially given priceing, but then the tokina 10-17 has a good reputation for sharpness but any lens needs to be used well to get the best out of it.
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Re: Help with 360 panoramic pictures for house flash virtual tour?
Posted: 8 Nov 2010 at 7:59 GMT
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When I started to make panos as a hobby, it was with my canon 400d with standard 18-55mm kit lens & nodal ninja 3 pano head. Now a couple of years later, the only change to my equipment is a sigma 8mm lens has been added. As I like to do the full 360°x180° views, I have never considered one of those mirror systems as they are just too limiting.
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Interior of small wooden church - high resolution panos
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Re: Interior of small wooden church - high resolution panos
Posted: 7 Nov 2010 at 23:14 GMT
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Now you say it, it make perfect sense.  Much better quality than I have ever managed to get.
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Interior of small wooden church - high resolution panos
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Posted: 7 Nov 2010 at 21:46 GMT
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Really good detail in both, am surprised at the number of images though. Why so many?
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Re: Help with 360 panoramic pictures for house flash virtual tour?
Posted: 7 Nov 2010 at 21:29 GMT
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It strikes me that it could be a lot of time/money investment for a one of project? As for cost of having someone do a tour for you, you could run into problems there too, best to look at what people actually do before you go hiring someone. (I recently made a two scene tour for a local Indian restaurant & was paid in curry, so cost isnt always a big issue, maybe you could approach an amateur if there is one close to you.) Also, you could use something like www.dermandar.com/ which is an online upload your photos and the panos are automatically generated thing (dont think it does the up and down thing though), but could well suffice.
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Photoshopping a Museum - when things can not be moved
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Re: Photoshopping a Museum - when things can not be moved
Posted: 5 Nov 2010 at 13:23 GMT
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Really quite remarkable work there. I cant even begin to imagine just how much work has gone into it. I dont know if it is just me, but does anyone think that alter looks totally out of place anyway
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Case Study of Virtual Tour for Hotel's ROI
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Re: Case Study of Virtual Tour for Hotel's ROI
Posted: 29 Oct 2010 at 8:55 GMT
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1. Is it because the marketing managers of these luxurious hotels have never heard of Virtual Tour?
2. Is it because there hasn't been any Virtual Tour provider that offered his service to these hotels?
3. Are these hotels comfortable enough with their ROI and sales that they don't want to bother with extra expense on Virtual Tour?
4. Why many 5-star International Hotel Chain choose to have very low quality VR? Such as
Hyatt Hotel International: osaka.regency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/gallery/virt...
5. Did they choose to have low quality VR because of the cheaper price or because they happen to know only one VR provider that happens to offer them low quality VR?
6. Since there are many high quality VR providers that offers 360x180, why they still choose the low quality ones with only 180 without nadir and zenith in a very small window?
In my opinion, hotel managers who may have bought virtual tour services in the past may just now be noticing that what they bought was sub-standard & poor quality, after they had been convinced by Virtual Tour providers that what they were buying cutting edge top notch vr tours, which later proved not to be the case. Once that manager has found out his vr tour is crap & possibly harming his buisness, he would then be reluctant to pay another vr tour provider for better quality because he now thinks that all vr tours must be as crap as the one he bought. So he pulls the vr tour and has no plans to replace it. (I know that happened at a local hotel).
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Does anyone use this lenspen?
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Re: Does anyone use this lenspen?
Posted: 23 Oct 2010 at 9:01 GMT
updated: 23 Oct 2010 at 9:06 GMT
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I have one of those, bought mainly for the brush. I have used the other end on my canon 18-55 lens & it seem to clean it, though I admit to being a bit too nervous to use it on my sigma 8 lens, so far. Incidentally, I wasnt happy about there being no cap for the brush end, the brush only retracts and isnt covered, so I used the cap from an old permanent marker pen that fitted well.
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Would love feedback on this one.
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Re: Would love feedback on this one.
Posted: 22 Oct 2010 at 20:36 GMT
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View360 said: Appreciate your thoughts. Take your point on the nadir cap issue but I do think people (and it tends not to be clients) can get a bit snobby about them. The tour does what it's supposed to do, with or without the cap. Cheers.
Yes it does indeed. As would a smaller cap
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Posted: 22 Oct 2010 at 13:57 GMT
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The nadir cap is a let down, is just too big and to be honest I see no real reason for it being there apart from a quick way to cover up hole.
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360 Panoramic lens - 199 EUR
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Extreme HDR...what do you think ?
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Sunrise at mile marker 100 on US HWY 15 in Utah
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Re: Sunrise at mile marker 100 on US HWY 15 in Utah
Posted: 16 Oct 2010 at 21:43 GMT
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You have caught that sunset really well. Give the stalker a stern talking to, just make sure no one is watching when you do 
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