I’ve been playing around with one of my sites, sorting out another
way to show panoramas at http://www.panoramapostcards.co.uk/
Just a bit of fun. Untested in browsers other than Safari at the
moment - but don’t worry, I’ll get around to that.
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on 03/30/08 5:16 PM Keith Martin said:
I’ve been playing around with one of my sites, sorting out another
way to show panoramas at http://www.panoramapostcards.co.uk/Just a bit of fun. Untested in browsers other than Safari at the
moment - but don’t worry, I’ll get around to that.k
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Seems to work OK in Firefox.
What would I need to be able to do that?
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Now that is truly awesome!
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Sometime around 30/3/08 (at 16:39 -0400) Matt Wills said:
What would I need to be able to do that?
Interesting, coming close on the heels of the thread about the
equipment not being important. Okay, I’m paraphrasing - but some
things do have a minimum threshold if you want to make things to a
certain level.
You can make panoramas with nothing more than a cheap digital
camera, some specialist software, and some care and patience. But to
make flaw-free panoramas with complete up and down viewing freedom
takes the following sort of kit:
Digital camera that allows full manual control over exposure, focus,
white-balance, ISO. A digital SLR is highly recommended but not
essential.
A wide-angle or fisheye lens. A fisheye adaptor would be a
reasonable choise if you have a ‘compact dSLR’ with a non-removable
lens.
Panoramic tripod head that rotates the camera around the lens’s ‘no
paralax point’ so that the essential overlaps match perfectly. These
range in cost from next to nothing (Google “homebrew pano head”)
through to many hundreds of pounds (over $1000) for the best pro rigs
The software to use is PTGui and Pano2VR or CubicConverter, or
RealViz Stitcher. Then all you need is practise, practise, practise.
You start to see a potential 360-degree scene in the same way that
you can learn to mentally ‘frame’ a scene for a regular photo.
The next issue of Computer Shopper (UK Windows-oriented computer mag)
will have a two-page article outlining first how to stitch together a
standard 360-degree panoramic image from a set of photos (using
PTGui) and then turn it into an interactive on-screen image (using
Pano2VR). Both apps are cross-platform, so the article will be as
useful to a Mac user as to a Windows user.
At some point I’ll rewrite that and put it online, but not until the
article has been and gone.
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Nice job Keith
but wow… Fairport are still alive and gigging! 
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On 31 Mar 2008, at 12:56, Marcel wrote:
but wow… Fairport are still alive and gigging!
Yes! That looked like Richard Thompson in the awful jeans … the
beret was the giveaway 
Mind you, anyone who plays guitar like
that can wear whatever damn jeans he likes as far as I’m concerned.
best wishes
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Sometime around 31/3/08 (at 07:56 -0400) Marcel said:
but wow… Fairport are still alive and gigging!
Yep. Last summer was the band’s 40th anniversary. Of course, not all
of them are still using all their original organs… and I mean that
in the medical sense.
Why not come along this summer? I think Jethro Tull will be
headlining the Friday night!
I help run the security there every year (the friendly festival fence
etc. crew, not the beefy pro security bods) so I was able to get
access not normally available to photographers. As you can see, that
shot was taken on stage in front of the drumkits during a song.
Anyway, I’m glad you like the site interface.
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Blinding.
And, hey, thanks for sharing your tools and tips.
I found the panoramic video demo on the Pano2VR site and it blew my socks off!
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Sometime around 31/3/08 (at 08:49 -0400) Marcel said:
I found the panoramic video demo on the Pano2VR site and it blew my socks off!
Heh. Yes, that stuff’s very good. It is all very new too. Over the
coming week or so I’m going to work with my youngest son, Max, to
make the world’s first 360-degree panoramic stop-motion animation.
That won’t be able to go on YouTube when it is finished as it will
take a bit more than the generic Flash video playback engine. But
I’ll get it onto his site at http://www.claynation.co.uk when it is
done.
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