Using spherical pans in a motion picture project

2010-05-03T08:07:43Z

I'm working on a multimedia project and wonder if anyone out there has used spherical pans in a motion picture editing application like Final Cut Pro. I would like to move around within the sphere and possibly zoom in to a special feature of interest and save this as a high def video clip for use in a DVD production. Is this possible? If so, I would be grateful for advice on how to achieve professional results. Any pitfalls I should be aware of?

SSD and UDMA mode 6

2010-01-29T07:02:20Z

well, I went out and buy myself a SSD for my system drive. I wasn't even thinking about panoramas but wanted a faster computer. I can't get the damn thing to run UDMA mode 6 -- only mode 5. On the Windows 7 assessment it is the slowest bottleneck in my computer. I can get a regular SATA drive to run UDMA mode 6 on the same port. No problem. The manufacturer of the SSD has been no help. You have any ideas?

Displaying Multiple Languages in Title/descriptions

2010-06-13T00:41:19Z

Hi,

Just wondering if someone could help me with displaying multiple languages in my panoramas. I have titled my most recent pano in Japanese and English and have written and detailed description in both languages- i published the pano but only the english title / description appears for me. I took a look at my dashboard / account settings but couldn't find and settings to allow me to display both languages. Is this possible ? Have i missed a simple stage here ?

Thanks Glen

Samyang 8mm F3,5

2010-04-29T15:21:46Z

I would really like your advise i have a Samyang 8mm f3.5 not shaved with a Canon 450D and Nodal Ninja R1 mounted on a Manfrotto Mono Pod.

Could you tel me what would be the best work flow and setup to do for this setup.

I have adjusted the exposure ring on lens to F8 for sunny days and focus ring to infinity ~ NOT SURE WHAT THE BEST SETTING IS FOR FOCUS as i want to tape it down once correct. also then set camera on manual and set the ISO to 200 native to camera i believe.

I use pt gui pro to stitch images and set focal size to 8mm

Please advise.

OT: How to add an avatar ?

2009-11-17T17:21:19Z

Is it possible to upload an avatar to the panoverflow forum or add an URL for it ?
The procedure to ad a gravatar isn't user friendly....

Wim

--UPDATE--
After creating an account on gravatar.com, adding a small png image and adding my email adress in my panoverflow account the avatar was showing within a couple of minutes :-)

Basics of Kr Pano.

2010-04-16T11:19:58Z

Does any one perhaps have a guide they made on how the basics of Kr Pano works ?

Johann

Samyang 8mm f3.5 Lens

2010-04-16T11:09:34Z

What would be the best pano head / rotator device i can use for a Samyang 8mm f3.5 Lens as i would like to shoot the least amount of images when doing a panorama ?.

Johann,

My photographer wants to shoot 360 panos with nikon 16-35mm f/4 on nikon D3 FX. Is that ok?

2010-04-19T13:22:06Z

Would that make the job?

I have a Canon EOS 300D and I am looking to buy a wide angle, what brand should I get?

2010-07-27T15:40:17Z

I have a Canon EOS 300D and I am looking to buy a wide angle lens and start putting together virtual tours. I have a budget of around $1000 and I need a lens that will give professional results. I am leaning towards the Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, but I have also heard good things about Sigma lenses. Any suggestions, I need all the help I can get!

what's about these shaving lense tutorials?

2009-11-17T15:54:33Z

Does it really make sense, and if yes, in what case ? thanks

Multi-camera panorama rig

2010-05-25T05:53:19Z

A number of people answered my question on "action panorama". To everybody: Thank you. I am attempting a new approach: building a multi-camera rig. I have found some inspiration, f.ex. DIY Streetview.org, where Jan use 2 Canon with fish-eye add-ons. Do you have any links to sites, where you can find technical drawing and other stuff on how to combine something like 3 compact cameras in order to get 3 shots taken at the same time. Hope they can be stitched properly.

How to do action panoramas?

2009-11-29T04:52:57Z

People - actually all living beings - is a nuisance in panoramas! No doubt about it. They never stay where you want and you get all these ghosts to edit out. On a more serious note: I have been wondering if there is a way to do "action" photos - a faster way to get the shots. I am working with a Nikon D90 + Nikkor 10,5 mm., a total of 8 shots including zenith and nadir. So, I am almost garanteed a total time per panorama of 10 seconds. And I am nor talking of Jeffreys "photo helmet".

Stablising a Monopod for longer exposures ?

2010-06-14T16:26:02Z

Recently I have been trying some low light level pano's in darkened rooms without a great deal of success, due to stability and length of exposures (tripods nor lighting allowed!).

I have increased the aperture from f8 to f6.3-f5 (Depth of focus isn't such a problem with rooms),
increased the ISO but noise starts to be a problem if you go to far,
so I am left with trying to increase the stability of the Monopod.

I've looked at the Duopod solution, but I wonder just how much improvement is possible ?

Has anyone tried such a method, or found other solutions ?
What sort of exposure times can you achieve ?

Ideally I would like to get to the point where a bracketed set of shots are possible but I think that's going to demand use of the tripod!

How to add interactive panorama's on google maps?

2010-07-15T01:01:21Z

I would like to add my panorama's on google maps. Does anybody have any idea? I saw an example on this site: http://www.360gradenpanoramafoto.nl/maatwerk-google-maps.php

I hope somebody can help me..

Thanks, Esther

Some tutorial to make VR panorama

2010-06-23T18:57:13Z

I bought one semi-professional digital camera and i want to make some photos. Before an year maybe i made a panorama 360 degree but not VR... only on horizontal axis.

So can someone help me with tutorial how i should take the photos, what program to use. And some examples would be great.

With people walking, How did you avoid getting them in the next shot

2009-10-30T21:52:24Z

I love your panos in Cuba. With people walking, How did you avoid getting them in the next shot if they were walking in the direction you were rotating ? I know you can save images as transparencies and erase doubled people but that is a bit tedious. Did you wait for them to walk out of the next frame?

Gil

Thanks for your new forum and I am sure that it will get a lot of use.

Somebody tried Pano2VR before?, Is this software good enough!!!????

2010-03-17T04:36:34Z

I just got Pano2VR and I want to know if this software is capable enough for the VR panorama work, somebody told me that is really easy to work with and also you can get very nice results and high quality rendering as good as the expensive ones on the market(easypano,etc,etc...) Is that true??

How do you mask the black polygon (or the tripod) with a "badge" ?

2010-05-27T17:49:11Z

Hi,

First, I want to thank Jeffrey Martin for helping me get rid of the tripod in panoramas by using the viewpoint correction in PTGui Pro. It works fine when I make a new panoramas taken with one additionnal nadir photo (without the tripod).

But I have several good panos for which I did not take the additionnal nadir photo (without the tripod). So I am stuck with these panos showing a black polygon or the tripod. They were taken using 28 photos and some are impossible to be taken again.

I have seen many panos at 360cities.net showing a "circular badge" or a small spherical photo of the pano itself, masking away the darn polygon/tripod.

Can someone tell me the process to include this badge/spherical photo in my existing panoramas ?

Thank you in advance !

Vincent

How to mask the tripod when you take 28 photos for one panoramic photo

2010-05-21T01:48:50Z

Hi, I am wondering how to mask the tripod when I take 28 photos to make one panoramic photo. Most answers I read are for panoramic photos taken with fisheyes lenses and comprising around 7 photos. In this method, the photographer takes an hand-held photo of the nadir and hides the tripod using the "cut and paste method" in photographic software like Photoshop, before stitching it.

I don't use a fisheye lens so I have to take 3 sets of 9 photos, at 40 degrees intervals horizontally (9X40=360 degrees). The first serie is tilted towards the ground at around 40 degrees (so I dont photograph the tripod), the second at around 10 degrees (close to horizontal) and the third at around 50 degrees (pointing upwards). I then take a last photo perfectly aimed at Zenith (top of the bubble). When I stitch all those photos in PTGui Pro, the tripod doesn't show and there is a nonagonal (nine sides) figure masking it. When I generate a QuickTIme VR file (.MOV file) in PTGui Pro, I lock the "tilt" at around -65 degrees so the viewer doesn't have access to the "bottom" of the bubble. This is a quite elegant "work around" but it is useless when I generate a JPEG file, as requested in 360cities.net (the JPEG shows the black nonagonal figure).

My question is: How can I replace this nonagonal figure with an advertising or a small "planet-like" photo in the finished JPEG photo (resulting of 28 stiched photos) ?

SAMYANG 8mm f/3.5 + hugin - projection method

2010-05-15T14:40:42Z

Hello, i tried to shoot spherical panorama and stiched it in Hugin. I dont know, which type of projection method i should choose. Is it Equirectangular or Fish eye circular / Full fish eye? Samyang has a steregraphical projection, but if i choose it in hugin, it cause "little planet". I have got best result in Equirectangular projection... but still is not brilliant.

My hw: Nodal Ninja NN3 MKII Sony Alpha 200 Samyang 8mm Benro tripod

Thx Michal

Using flash lighting

2010-03-31T11:55:52Z

I like to use flash lighting to add an extra crispness and also to balance the exposure from outside.

Does anybody have some good tips on using flash lighting that is easy to stitch without shadows from opposite directions, evenly lit and without harsh areas that suggest flash hasnt been used.

many thanks!

Rich

Build your panorama head (DIY)

2010-05-25T05:48:00Z

I got into panorama photo a year ago. Since then I have invested a lot of money. I bought a Nodal Ninja III Mk.II for my Nikon D90, but soon discovered problems with size and weight. So I got the brilliant idea: why not modify the head with spare parts from the Nodal Ninja 5? Not a brilliant idea Nodal replied, but we'll upgrade for 230 Euros. That inspired a new idea: why not build your own? I have found a lot of DIY pano heads on the net. The only thing I need is the talent and gift to do decent metal work. So I am looking for advice, inspiration etc. from people, who have been in the same type of situation (no money, no talent).

Aerial Panoramic

2010-04-14T22:04:07Z

What equipment do I need to do aerial panoramic ... 3 meters or more. Right now I have a camera, a head nodal ninja Mk3 R8, and a common giotto tripe. Can someone tell me how to assemble the equipment I need.

Is a fisheye lens better than just a wide lens to make a spherical panorama?

2010-03-22T11:11:29Z

I mean, with fisheye (i.e. Samyang 8mm fish-eye) you get distortion in the image and I don't know if this difficults the images stitch or if the panorama looks weird.

Basic Instructions for shooting 360

2010-05-18T18:07:00Z

Hi, I am a complete newbie and my questions are epically basic, but I am at a loss. Please link if this is answered somewhere else, but I have an hour to figure this out and simply don't have time to look.

Ninja Nodal 3II
Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
Canon 15mm fisheye lens.
Autopano Giga2
Autopano Tour
Windows XP

(Our photographer quit last week and I've been put in charge of taking 360 tour photos for a hotel. I know very little about photography, much less this camera or the equipment the company has purchased in order to take 360 tours.)

I've got the 180 down, but our clients need 360 and I can't figure out the the process of stitching the nadir/zenith images in with the main 180 shots. I found instructions like this...

Then shoot 6-around at about -15 degrees pitch and one up at about +65 degrees. Shooting the 'zenith' shot at +65 rather than +90 degrees pitch makes it far more likely that you will get a good link between the 'zenith' shot and the main row.

...which is great, except that doesn't tell me how to insert these nadir/zenith photos into the main row panorama. I'm on a time crunch and I'm feeling pretty silly at this point, but if anyone would care to explain this process step by step, that'd be great.

Thanks.

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Somebody tested an 8mm Rokinon's fisheye lens?

2010-05-12T17:58:17Z

Rokinon's newest lens 8mm Fisheye lens f 3.5-22, I would like to know if somebody tested this lens and how good it is in quality sharpness, optic and specially chromatic aberration???

Automatic (gyro?) leveler

2009-12-17T03:24:54Z

I am having problems with leveling, even though I am working with a Nodal Nija 3 Mk II pano head and a Manfrotto RC2 ball head. The problem is probably my eyesight, but before trying surgery I would find another solution. Just an idea. Have anyone heard of an automatic leveler, that would ensure a 100% level panorama? All suggestions are welcome. It's a pain to be forced to do a lot of post-processing.

How to make 360 panorama without shadows from the tripod or the cameraman

2010-05-09T13:24:28Z

Possible Duplicate:
How to shoot a spherical panorama without having the tripod in the image?

How to make a 360 panorama on sunny day without the shadow from the tripod, the camera or the cameraman. I don't know how to do it. For example: http://www.360cities.net/image/090429-0929w6000cl#250.27,61.51,70.0

All other objects have shadow but there isn't shadow from the tripod or the camera.

Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8 dx - panorama in 3 shots?

2009-11-05T12:21:14Z

I see on 360cities.net that you can create panoramas in only 3 shots! How? I have Nikon D3X (fullframe) and Nikkor 10.5mm and have same results like i shot with Nikon D200,D2X and Sigma 8mm. Shot vertical and in this case have cuted left and right side of picture. Yes, i was cuted plastic lens hood. I get's good results with NIKON D3X and Sigma 8mm. In this case you can shot with 3 photos from monopod or hands.

how to perfectly stitch the ground image of a pano

2010-04-30T09:20:54Z

I started to take pano just a month ago. but the main problem is how to perfectly stitch the ground.

Usually, I upwards the lens 10 degrees to guarantee the sky that can be stithed automaticly by PTGui, and take 4 images in 4 directions per 90 dgrees. At the end, I handhold the camera to take the ground image, the camera is almost parallel to the ground(lens is pointing to the ground vertically).

Then, when I put all the images (include the ground image) to the PTGui, the output equirectangular image is almost not perfect, either the ground is not well or the other part appear the ground image elements...really, really agonizing!

The second method is I put 4 images( not includ the ground image) and output equirectangular image, then crop out the ground image by Pano2vr, then I use photoshop to handle this ground image's tripod area. however, the ground area is still not very perfect or nature.

I have see many panos in 360cities, they all are are great photographed and precisely stithed the ground image.

Therefore, my question are, how to pertectly stitch the ground image, where is my problem, dose there have other better methods, how much time do you use to stitch a pano ?

thank...

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