GigaPan EPIC Pro available in April

ziggy53

Official press release at Scribd:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28406466/EPIC-Pro-Press-Release

Basically, GigaPan will have three models:

• GigaPan EPIC: $349.00USD, for P&S and light digicams.
  
• EPIC 100: $449.00, for larger digicams and small dSLRs with lightweight lenses, extra features.
  
• EPIC Pro: $895.00, camera/lens combinations to 10lbs, advanced features, available April 2010.

Camera compatibility for EPIC Pro (also the other heads above):

http://gigapansystems.com/compatible-cameras.html#epicprolist

JohnBiggs

And what is this? I can't see the site because it requires flash.

ziggy53

The EPIC:

http://www.coated.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gigapan-epic-imager-digital-camera.jpg

The EPIC 100:

http://www.photographyblog.com/images/sized/images/uploads/gigapan_epic_100-311x400.jpg

EPIC Pro:

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/zdnet-gigapan-epic-pro.jpg

A video with an explanation and demonstration:

http://vimeo.com/4770019

Basically it's a robotic control platform with the primary goal of automated panoramic photography. The latest and more expensive versions have a very nice feature set and allows advanced control of the camera to allow things like multiple exposures at the same elevation and pan, and allow the camera to bracket, for instance.

BradfordBenn

Hmmmm wonder if I can find one that will do both my P&S and the XTi

ziggy53

BradfordBenn wrote:

Hmmmm wonder if I can find one that will do both my P&S and the XTi

Ask them:

http://gigapansystems.com/contact-us/gigapan-contact-pages/general-contact-page.html

BradfordBenn

Well that would make way too much sense

Malte

ziggy53 wrote:

Official press release at Scribd:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28406466/EPIC-Pro-Press-Release

Basically, GigaPan will have three models:

• GigaPan EPIC: $349.00USD, for P&S and light digicams.
• EPIC 100: $449.00, for larger digicams and small dSLRs with lightweight lenses, extra features.
• EPIC Pro: $895.00, camera/lens combinations to 10lbs, advanced features, available April 2010.

Camera compatibility for EPIC Pro (also the other heads above):

http://gigapansystems.com/compatible-cameras.html#epicprolist

WANT!

However, you'd hit SmugMug's 24 MB limit with a pretty small one...

Malte

ziggy53

Malte wrote:

WANT!

However, you'd hit SmugMug's 24 MB limit with a pretty small one...

Malte

Granted, SmugMug is not set up for panoramic display in general. I would probably use SmugMug to provide a "teaser" image and then use the GigaPanSM embedding to supply the full resolution image and display. (GigaPan embedding would be easiest on the GigaPan site or on a generic web page.)

http://gigapan.org/gigapans/most_popular/

bandgeekndb

For those who are interested, I will have access to one of these systems starting next week as part of a class project.

I'll post the links on here when I upload the panos to Gigapan.org, as I expect they'll be quite interesting. I'll be using my D90, and either my 70-200 f/2.8 or my 55-200 f4-f/5.6 depending on what the camera can handle. I don't know if I will really need the weight of the 70-200 though, since I wouldn't want to shoot a panorama at f/2.8!

~Nick

ziggy53

Hey Nick, absolutely keep us posted. Sounds like a great opportunity.

BradfordBenn

Apparently one can use the same mount for both of my cameras. However the DevBobo SpinoPanorama has been working pretty well....

ziggy53

BradfordBenn wrote:

Apparently one can use the same mount for both of my cameras. However the DevBobo SpinoPanorama has been working pretty well....

You mean this?:

http://www.schmootography.com/gallery/3575429/4#203783690_c3Jpc-A-LB

BradfordBenn

Yes that would be the Devbobo SpinoPanorama.

Not bad from 8 images if I remember correctly

Here is the gallery http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/Panoramas/TargetField/11662145_tDhEs#822532720_YX9xg-A-LB