Panoramic photography

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oROSSo said:
and a reasonably priced panoramic tripod head that will rotate round the lens?
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No such thing!

The plus side is that any decent panoramic head will come with the circular level as part of it.

I have never used a leveller (as ICBYD will vouch ;) ) I just adjust the tripod legs. A leveller would make it easier, but you get quicker with time. I have a 30+ pano tour to create tomorrow morning and have only booked a 1 hour slot for it.
 
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I will never vouch for anything from this dodgy scouser ^^^^ :)
 
Iain Hesford's Bait Box said:
That looks canny that, and not too bad a price. Have you ordered one? Think I might have a dabble if its any good
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Not yet mate but I'm debating it, already spent 200 quid this week on gear......but it is payday!

before using some stitching software, do you need to do much editing such as lens correction etc to each individual shot?
 
oROSSo said:
I'm hurt that you think i'd say such a thing.....

found this, should do the job

http://www.red-door.co.uk/pages/productpages/pano-MAXX-Panorama-Tripod-head.html#t-adapter
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What are you planning on shooting? That looks like it should do anything, but you may not need anything as fancy. Really depends how many rows you are shooting, and if you are shooting particularly small spaces or have lots of objects in the foreground.

If it is just stitching together a basic wide landscape you may not need a panoramic head at all.

oROSSo said:
before using some stitching software, do you need to do much editing such as lens correction etc to each individual shot?
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Lens correction is often built into the specialised stitching software.

PTGui is brilliant.
 
Roger said:
What are you planning on shooting? That looks like it should do anything, but you may not need anything as fancy. Really depends how many rows you are shooting, and if you are shooting particularly small spaces or have lots of objects in the foreground.

If it is just stitching together a basic wide landscape you may not need a panoramic head at all.



Lens correction is often built into the specialised stitching software.

PTGui is brilliant.
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just been playing with this. Fuck me, it's a bit of clever software.

found these on fleabay

what do you reckon lads?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fotomate-..._Tripods_Heads_Stablisers&hash=item4845bce3b0
 
oROSSo said:
PTGui isn't cheap is it!
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Not at all, bloody expensive. However, Hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/) is virtually the same and opensource too. Just as good.

I did one of them gigapixel images with it from the top of the hill at Dalton Park. (Shite subject but in walking distance of my house)

Whack it on the full screen zoom in, and the detail is canny. Mind, it should be, there's thirty odd pictures stitched here :)

http://zoom.it/lSai

Zoom.it is a canny service too. There's one blindingly obvious stitching error on here, see if you can spot it. ( roger isn't allowed to play, cos he found it and pointed it out me )

Icarebecauseyoudo said:
Given the price of those things there is surely a market for someone to knock them out from a shed, for about £30

Bloody easy to make a simplistic version
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http://www.peterloud.co.uk/nodalsamurai/nodalsamurai.html :cool:
 
is it the blue car appearing twice on the roundabout?

my 400d would never pick out that much detail!

ah and the triple van!
 
oROSSo said:
is it the blue car appearing twice on the roundabout?

my 400d would never pick out that much detail!

ah and the triple van!
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Two blindingly obvious stitching errors :)

Bet the 400 would work just fine Ross, it's the number of pictures that gives you the detail here
 
oROSSo said:
my 400d would never pick out that much detail!
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This was taken with a 400D as was this but they did use rather a lot of photos.

Iain Hesford's Bait Box said:
Two blindingly obvious stitching errors :)
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Not really stitching errors as such though are they. For me a stitching error is where the photo is disjointed.

To get rid of moving objects you need a large overlap between photos, some masking software and a lot of patience.
 
Iain Hesford's Bait Box said:
Not at all, bloody expensive. However, Hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/) is virtually the same and opensource too. Just as good.

I did one of them gigapixel images with it from the top of the hill at Dalton Park. (Shite subject but in walking distance of my house)

Whack it on the full screen zoom in, and the detail is canny. Mind, it should be, there's thirty odd pictures stitched here :)

http://zoom.it/lSai

Zoom.it is a canny service too. There's one blindingly obvious stitching error on here, see if you can spot it. ( roger isn't allowed to play, cos he found it and pointed it out me )



http://www.peterloud.co.uk/nodalsamurai/nodalsamurai.html :cool:
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A couple of corking photos on his website from the tyne :-

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Roger said:
I particularly like his "deluxe" version with the pop-rivet locating pin, wonder how much extra that one costs.

I'd love to turn up with something like that at a job and see the customers face - especially when I explained it was the deluxe model :lol:
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Clearly room for a middle ground version for £30 like . Tooling done in China, for 1000 untis you could make a tidy profit I suspect

Anyway who gives a shite what customers think ;)
 
Icarebecauseyoudo said:
Clearly room for a middle ground version for £30 like . Tooling done in China, for 1000 untis you could make a tidy profit I suspect

Anyway who gives a shite what customers think ;)
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Definitely, although anything for cameras is priced silly. These were small market niche tools but I am pretty sure the market is growing and a largish volume run could be done.

If I had my way the price would double to stop other people joining my game.

As you know customers only care about the end result not how its acheived but I'd still love to turn up with something like that just to see the response!
 
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