Like Panaramas get one of THESE

Slidinginfinity

cnocbui

I manage to take quite acceptable panoramas, hand-held, on 35mm, without even a tripod. :rolleyes:

I wonder how many lenses you could buy for the cost of that thing.

Tallon

Believe it or not, there only $200

stcstc

where any panoramic head comes into its own is where you have strong verticals ect in the shot

as doing it handheld, there is a problem of controlling parallax

that gigapan unit you put up is only suitable for compacts too really

they are working on a dslr version

Shiny

Tallon wrote: »

Believe it or not, there only $200

Where do you get this price?

The SLR version costs $450 on their site.

Tallon

Shiny wrote: »

Where do you get this price?

The SLR version costs $450 on their site.

I seen it on Digg at some stage.
Some guy did the whole inauguration with it

Ballyman

Why would anyone need this thing anyway?? You'll have to process the shot anyway and to straighten a horizon or vertical takes 10 seconds in photoshop so you might as well do it there as in camera.

stcstc

if your doing interior 360 degree stuff its great

if you want really high res landscape shots for example you could produce huge files, which mean huge prints

Ballyman

stcstc wrote: »

if you want really high res landscape shots for example you could produce huge files, which mean huge prints

Yea but you don't need this thing to do that. A standard swivel head tripod does the trick fine as Photoshop will join them up afterards for you.

stcstc

well it depends, as rotating on a normal tripod head means your not rotating around the nodal point of the lens, and therefore can create parallax errors

trooney

stcstc wrote: »

well it depends, as rotating on a normal tripod head means your not rotating around the nodal point of the lens, and therefore can create parallax errors

Think of the satisfaction of producing a stitched landscape 'by hand'...

gary82

stcstc wrote: »

if your doing interior 360 degree stuff its great

Much better....

Tallon

gary82 wrote: »

Much better....

hahah, I was trying to find that picture

GhostInTheRuins

gary82 wrote: »

Much better....

That pic leaves out the best part, how to view your 360 panoramas:

whyulittle

gary82 wrote: »

Much better....

The recession is even hitting Google Street View it seems......

Mr. Grieves

I met a guy taking pictures for Google Earth in Glendalough. He was using one of these with a Canon 400D I think.

He had a tripod head which attached to the front of the lens so that he was rotating around this point. The lens has a 185 degree field of view even on a crop sensor, so only 2 shots were needed to get the full 360 degree panorama.

As you can imagine, the dynamic of any shot taken with is potentially huge (the sun will be in half of all the shots you take!) so he took 3 exposures and combined them.

cnocbui

Why didn't he just put the camera on it's back on the ground, set the self timer and walk away. Only need one shot that way.

stcstc

i use

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?navigator=4


and


one of these

http://services.manfrotto.com/303SPH/

which i take 6 shots to give me 360 degree bubble

Mr. Grieves

cnocbui wrote: »

Why didn't he just put the camera on it's back on the ground, set the self timer and walk away. Only need one shot that way.

He was taking the shot from the top of a small hill, so this wouldn't have worked
Also, I'd imagine he didn't want to appear in every shot, which would have been unavoidable without some sort of hiding place!

Edit: Actually he took 3 shots to be sure they overlapped anyway.

Burnt

I seen people hack alt/az telescope heads for the same purpose