Ultimate pano mount?

Nikolai

http://www.gigapansystems.com/

ziggy53

That and PixOrb. Robotic heads are expensive but if you need speed and repeatability they are pretty handy.

BradfordBenn

I saw one at O'Hare Airport last month as they have a stand setup between Terminal 1 (Gates B&C) and Terminal 2 (Gates E&F). I might have to go take another look.

Although I will admit that the DevBobo Pano Method has been working pretty well for recently.... then again I am not quite at the same level as you guys ---- yet

Nikolai

ziggy53 wrote:

That and PixOrb. Robotic heads are expensive but if you need speed and repeatability they are pretty handy.

This one is only $300 or something. Beats the hell our of any decent-to-good panokit price-wise...

scottV

Definitely a cool set up. That is the same one used to make that famous bajillion megapixel inauguration pano.

Nikolai

They claim it comes with a special stitching software that can handle 11Gp

Shane422

These Yosemite Panos were done with a Gigapan head. They are truly amazing.

NeilL

Bookmarked! I was afraid of panos because I thought I would drop stitches and there'd be a lot of angst. Maybe this is the answer! Thanks, Nik, for the link.

aj986s

Nikolai wrote:

http://www.gigapansystems.com/

Very cool piece of equipment. Surprisingly affordable, too. I also saw it in latest issue of Pop Photo.

However, I was a little dissappointed to see that very few Canon SLR's are supported. I could use my G10. But 30/40/50/5/1D's aren't listed. Size or weight too much for it??

NeilL

in the news...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8004657.stm

SteveF

aj986s wrote:

Very cool piece of equipment. Surprisingly affordable, too. I also saw it in latest issue of Pop Photo.

However, I was a little dissappointed to see that very few Canon SLR's are supported. I could use my G10. But 30/40/50/5/1D's aren't listed. Size or weight too much for it??

I was a beta tester for these. Lots of fun.

They have pretty small motors, and so you are correct that the limitation on cameras is because of weight.

The best results are with more photos and a longer focal length (at least 300mm). But with this you need time for the rig to "settle" in between each shot to minimize movement. With a larger, heavier camera this would take even more time. A few seconds more per photo might not seem like a big deal, but with these 200-500 shot panos are pretty regular and so 3 seconds more per shot can easily mean another 15 min.

I used an S5 IS with mine. Fun results, but there's no doubt these are not DSLR images with L glass.

Here's one I took of a beach in Kauai. Click on the thumbnails to "explore" around the image. (The 8th one to me shows the real potential of this system.) Fun part is that I set it up, went swimming for 30 minutes and came back to a finished image.

http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3626

Nikolai

SteveF wrote:

I was a beta tester for these. Lots of fun.

They have pretty small motors, and so you are correct that the limitation on cameras is because of weight.

The best results are with more photos and a longer focal length (at least 300mm). But with this you need time for the rig to "settle" in between each shot to minimize movement. With a larger, heavier camera this would take even more time. A few seconds more per photo might not seem like a big deal, but with these 200-500 shot panos are pretty regular and so 3 seconds more per shot can easily mean another 15 min.

I used an S5 IS with mine. Fun results, but there's no doubt these are not DSLR images with L glass.

Here's one I took of a beach in Kauai. Click on the thumbnails to "explore" around the image. (The 8th one to me shows the real potential of this system.) Fun part is that I set it up, went swimming for 30 minutes and came back to a finished image.

http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3626

That's impressive!
Too bad I don't own a P&S:-)

dbd

SteveF wrote:

I was a beta tester for these. Lots of fun.

They have pretty small motors, and so you are correct that the limitation on cameras is because of weight.

The best results are with more photos and a longer focal length (at least 300mm). But with this you need time for the rig to "settle" in between each shot to minimize movement. With a larger, heavier camera this would take even more time. A few seconds more per photo might not seem like a big deal, but with these 200-500 shot panos are pretty regular and so 3 seconds more per shot can easily mean another 15 min.
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I was a beta tester, too. I mpodified the mount slightly and put on an Olympus E-520 with a 2X telextender on the light weight 50-140 kit lens. So, 140 x 2 x 2 => 560mm 35mm FF equivalent.



That's the rig in Bodie in February. The resulting 1.85 gigapixels of the Standard Mill at:
http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=17385&window_height=682&window_width=1050

Dale B. Dalrymple
http://dbdimages.com

Nikolai

dbd wrote:

I was a beta tester, too. I mpodified the mount slightly and put on an Olympus E-520 with a 2X telextender on the light weight 50-140 kit lens. So, 140 x 2 x 2 => 560mm 35mm FF equivalent.

That's the rig in Bodie in February. The resulting 1.85 gigapixels of the Standard Mill at:
http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=17385&window_height=682&window_width=1050

Dale B. Dalrymple
http://dbdimages.com

Cool! Thank you for sharing!

f-rider

Gigapan Epic ??
Any updates from you Gigapaners? I have been tossing around the idea of getting a Gigapan Epic, as they have dropped the price a bit but not sure if it will work with my Panny FZ35 super zoom. I'm sure my Nikon D80 is too big, especially with a zoom.

Is Gigapan the only robotic pano head that is priced reasonably enough?

Anybody ever try printing one of their gigapans?

TIA !!