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Re: Are we paranoid?
Posted: 13 Oct 2009 at 3:00 GMT
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Mathrafal, why don't you just look at the relevant source images to see if the flaw is really there or not?
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Posted: 12 Jan 2009 at 11:35 GMT
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Aaron Spence said: D700 + Nikon 16mm Fullframe Fisheye = heaven  Same FOV as D200 + 10.5mm requires 6 + 1 etc.
Why heaven?
I am looking to get a D300 + 10.5mm. How do you think the results would compare with your D700 + 16mm? I imagine the high ISO performance would be markedly better, but apart from that, would it be much/any better?
Was just thinking you mean 6 + N, tilting the main row up slightly to cover Z, but looking at your site, it seems you do 6 + Z and don't worry about N - correct?
Nice work with the Indy set mate. Are you a webdesigner? Whoever was responsible for the integration with the Google Maps API has done a great job (dunno if it was in your organisation or not).
I have had a bit of a geeze at your site, and it interests me a lot. I have a project I'm currently working on that needs a solution like this, and another upcoming job too.
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Re: LCD Pano help.
Posted: 11 Jan 2009 at 14:25 GMT
updated: 11 Jan 2009 at 14:41 GMT
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It's hard for us to judge, not having seen the environment, but it looks perfectly acceptable to me. On inspection though, I'm noticing a bit of a pink tinge in the sky, particularly slightly above the horizon on the high end of the street.
I have a 24" Dell 2408WFP, which uses an S-PVA panel (lovely monitor I must say). Not calibrated thus far, but has been adjusted based on another user's calibration results, so should be quite accurate.
Snow does seem to be a touch on the pink side too, but I wouldn't say it's noticable. I have checked it with my tray eye-dropper, which EVERYBODY should get - www.instant-eyedropper.com .. it's free.
TN panels are getting better, but still rather poor as far as colour accuracy and colour shifting (viewing at different angles) goes.
As mentioned before, one of the first things I noticed was the CA. Have you looked at your options for reducing CA?
Oh and about the screen blinding you, "like a 100w light bulb", that seems to be inherent in LCDs these days. I've gradually turned mine down from 50/100 (factory) to 40, 30, 20, 12, and finally 0! The lowest setting and it's still plenty bright. I have three 20W halogen desk lamps around my desk - left corner of room, center (behind monitor, shining at the wall), and right corner, and they help a lot. Sometimes I use L & R, C, L & C, C & R or all three. Our eyes open our pupils appropriately for the scene, just as a camera exposes appropriately for a scene. If you compensate the brightness of a monitor by lighting the periphery, our pupils will close, making the monitor more bearable.
Hmm.. computer ergonomics 101.
Finally - Nice work mate.
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Re: 360 vr with people in them ??
Posted: 11 Jan 2009 at 13:51 GMT
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Mark Schuster said: ** PS Incase anyone notices I will admit at once that I not only brought the Scotsman to the front but moved him a bit to the right for the sake of composition. Och aye!
Hah, nice work!
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Re: What do I need "software"
Posted: 11 Jan 2009 at 12:50 GMT
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Mmm, I gave Hugin a go just the other day and was blown away by it's effectiveness in stitching. For a free (and open source) solution, it's amazing, and definitely right up there with the commercial solutions.
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Google statistics used to catagorize user Java versions...
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Re: Google statistics used to catagorize user Java versions...
Posted: 10 Jan 2009 at 1:44 GMT
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Hans Nyberg said: Still all detected to have Java,
End of this stupid discussion.
Welldone with the test, Hans.
I suspect that Javascript can't detect true Java support because it can't make the jump to the actual plugin, and it also can't query the browser for whether or not it's installed because that query doesn't exist; only the Java enabled query (in the browser) is available for Javascript to query, and the former wasn't built into the standard. This may be because back when these possible standards were established, Java was shipped with Windows and the only relevant query was if it was enabled or not, not installed (because everyone had it).
(I can't comment on OSX because I have no experience with it and don't know anything about it)
Doug Aurand said: raymo
I guess you must be confusing "confidence" with "attitude"
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Raymo, that's not "attitude" that's just "confidence"
You may or may not be confident, but I'm not concerned with that. Make no mistake, your earlier posts that I quoted were full of attitude.
Doug Aurand said: As usual Matt's completely out of tune with the rest of the world.
Doug Aurand said: Don't forget to take your meds today, Matt, your megalomania is flairing up again
Doug Aurand said: Is your memory slipping?
But hang on a minute; you implied that you "dish out 'attitude'" when I first called you on it.
Doug Aurand said: raymo
The only time I dish out "attitude" is when its being dished out, like Matt Rogers' attacks on VR photographers.
Why don't you just take it on the chin. You'll get more respect for it.
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Re: Google statistics used to catagorize user Java versions...
Posted: 8 Jan 2009 at 6:03 GMT
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Doug Aurand said: raymo
The only time I dish out "attitude" is when its being dished out, like Matt Rogers' attacks on VR photographers.
Matt Rogers said: Who really cares about Java, compared to the new Flash players Java is old hat. The only panoramic viewers I've ever had issues with or had customers report issues with have been Java.
It's about time to put a bullet in Java and let it rest in piece.
Matt
Doug Aurand said: As usual Matt's completely out of tune with the rest of the world.
He says "It's about time to put a bullet in Java and let it rest in piece" while he participates in a forum who's Gallery uses a Java Viewer that works perfectly every time as well as almost all commercial virtual tour users like Marriott.com, Realtor.com, Sheraton Hotels, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Don't forget to take your meds today, Matt, your megalomania is flairing up again
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
Hans Nyberg said: Doug
Did you not read the link above to the tests made with this new analytics stat,
Quote/ "only 43% of web visitors seem to have Java installed."
Hans
Doug Aurand said: Hans
That must be why Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Westin, Holiday Inns, Radisson, Travelocity, Orbitz, etc, etc, etc use Java Viewers for their virtual tours...because it has even an even lower installation rate than....QuickTime???????
Get real
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
Hans Nyberg said: The 92% is probably the standard Analytics stat which only says that Java is enabled in browser. Which as I earlier showed does not mean it is installed and works.
Among my Firefox visitors that one says 90% and on all visitors 94%.
The referred site was a blog which is a typical Firefox users site.
Doug Aurand said: So you're saying Google Analytics has been mis-reporting whether Java is installed on multi-millions of computers in thousands, maybe millions, of Google Analytics website reports for several years now? 
I'm glad we have [you] in the Panoguide forums, since you know more about how Google Analytics works than the multi-billion dollar company created it.
And I guess you couldn't possible believe the IT departments of billion dollar hotel companies keep using Java to view virtual tours because it works? Of course you can't Hans, all those hundreds, maybe thousands, of IT guys at Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Westin, etc etc etc are obviously incompetent.
Or maybe you think its a conspiracy that the thousands of dollars spent on Java viewed hotel virtual tours has been wasted and they're keeping the secret from the top company management for...what reason????? 
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But if you want to keep the "Java Conspiracy" a secret, you go right ahead. We won't tell. 
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
The only attitude I can see is coming from you.
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Re: Google statistics used to catagorize user Java versions...
Posted: 7 Jan 2009 at 5:57 GMT
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Doug Aurand said: .. Gallery uses a Java Viewer that works perfectly every time ..
I've experienced the PURE Player crash on several occasions, a few of which were just yesterday. I have a recent version of Sun's Java installed on XP SP3.
I was a Network Administrator (and the Website Coordinator) at my local Council, and the most enduring headache we experienced was getting a Java financial web application working consistently, despite it being used on only three of the 70 machines in the network. I don't submit this as proof that Java is unreliable, but as real-world evidence against it.
We never had a problem with Flash.
Doug Aurand said: As usual Matt's completely out of tune with the rest of the world.
Doug Aurand said: Don't forget to take your meds today, Matt, your megalomania is flairing up again
Doug Aurand said: Is your memory slipping?
Doug Aurand said: I'm glad we have [you] in the Panoguide forums, since you know more about how Google Analytics works than the multi-billion dollar company created it.
Doug, why the attitude? Nobody deserves that. I thought this was a respectable community.
Doug Aurand said: And I guess you couldn't possible believe the IT departments of billion dollar hotel companies keep using Java to view virtual tours because it works? Of course you can't Hans, all those hundreds, maybe thousands, of IT guys at Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Westin, etc etc etc are obviously incompetent.
Or maybe you think its a conspiracy that the thousands of dollars spent on Java viewed hotel virtual tours has been wasted and they're keeping the secret from the top company management for...what reason?????
Doug Aurand said: I guess I just have faith that the IT guys at these multi-billion dollar corporations actually know what they're doing.
I'd be highly surprised if these Hotel virtual tours were developed by their IT departments. They're most always outsourced, as the expertise can't be found within the organisation. That in turn can affect the developers' decision making in what to use - perhaps they didn't worry about considering accessibility or reliability.
Irrespective of that however; say for a moment that Java is in fact inferior - it doesn't surprise me that these "multi-billion dollar corporations" are still using it when there is now a better alternative. I have observed that the agility of a business is often inversely proportionate to their budget. Big business usually has a hierarchy such that the decision makers are so far separated from the employees that know what's best, especially when it comes to technology. On top of that, upper management is usually very reluctant to change.
But I think Vilmer's comment might be more on the mark.
Vilmer said: As for those big hotel chains; they have those tours up and running for many years, way before flash was an alternative. A lot of them never even bothered to update them, so those tours are perfect examples of how it was done in the good old days.
I think Hans raises a good point too.
Hans Nyberg said: Why the Hotels sites use it?
Its just because they believe the visitors can see them , not because they know they can.
As for statistics on Java installations - a few days ago, while considering the effectiveness of Java panoramas, I had a look at the analytics stats on several of my sites (I am a webdesigner), and to my surprise, they said about 95%. I found it hard to believe. I think that today's average user doesn't do anything that requires or even uses Java.
Before you bite my head off Doug, maybe take a deep breath and realise I'm only sharing my unbiased opinions and experience.
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Posted: 5 Jan 2009 at 23:29 GMT
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John Houghton said: PTGui has had its own stitcher for quite somne time
Ah right, thanks for the correction.
John Houghton said: What a coincidence!
What do you mean by that?
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Posted: 5 Jan 2009 at 10:33 GMT
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As for software, I suggest you give Hugin a look before PTGui, as Hugin is free (AND open source). It's still quite young, but already very powerful and effective.
hugin.sourceforge.net/
Like PTGui, Hugin uses the Panorama Tools stitcher. And one could be forgiven for mistaking it for PTGui, as they look very similar to one another.
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Posted: 8 Sep 2008 at 18:30 GMT
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Oh ofcourse, what was I thinking, the D3 was the first and only full frame body until the other day when the D700 was announced. Heh.
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Posted: 8 Sep 2008 at 17:31 GMT
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It's widely agreed that the NN3 is for medium cameras. Only the NN5 has the size to accommodate vertical grips.
Get the NN5. As for a lens, I don't know what is suitable for full frame cameras, although some people still use the 10.5mm DX (but I think the attached hood needs to be shaved off - I would definitely not do that, but find an alternative lens).
Nodal Ninja are a fantastic company that offer excellent products backed up by outstanding support. No, I'm not affiliated with them. I'm impressed and can't wait to get mine.
My wishlist has D300 + 10.5mm + NN5.
Edit: I didn't noticed your subject, stating your lenses. Well, the 70-200mm wouldn't be much good, but the 17-55mm might be workable at 17mm. Is that a full frame lens though?
Keep in mind that using unusual hardware for such a specialist purpose will probably make researching the process more difficult, as there would be much less people with the same or even similar hardware.
One of the reasons I'm going for Nikon cropped body + 10.5mm + NN + PTGui is that it's one of the most common configs; that tells me that 1) it works (well), and 2) others have already perfected the process & technique for me!
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Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 1:44 GMT
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Doug Aurand said: Your habit of "previewing" the smaller version of the virtual images is just another reason to offer 2 versions like the Panoguide Galleries do
But ofcourse.
I currently offer three versions - low (<500kB), medium (<2mB), and full (typically 4mB).
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Posted: 25 Aug 2008 at 6:03 GMT
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Hi Pedro
Those market panos don't seem to be working. I've looked into it and the MOVs seem to not be on the server (in the path specified, at least).
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