Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, Thanks. It is fun to get a bit of access for a change. The funny thing is walking back to the car I saw a cool little garden next to an office building and took a shot and got yelled at by the security guard. Thanks to our work with the state police I knew my rights and told the man that I wouldn't stop shooting from a public sidewalk. It mystified him and he didn't have a response. How to do the Quicktime panos. Well there's a lot of detail but here's the outline. 1. I used a Nikon D300 with a 10.5mm fisheye lens and shot 6 shots around on a level tripod (you rotate about the nodal point of the lens). It is important to keep aperture, white balance constant so I shoot in A mode. Before I shoot I test for the right settings by doing some test shots. If you want to be really intense about it you can take 3 shots at a -2, 0, +2 exposure and integrate them. 2. You turn the camera up at the same point and take a ceiling (zenith) shot. Similarly turn it down and take the nadir shot 3. You put all these shots into a program that will put them together. Photoshop CS4 does it now but I use PTGUI. Both programs will find the points that connect the various photographs and also do a bit of blending. 4. Of course there's tweaking. Sometimes a person moves through the shot and you have to do some masking, etc. There are some beautiful panoramas at www.panoramas.dk More help at panoguide.com Sanjay Nasta www.gadgetguys.com Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:47:57 +0800 From: H&ECummer <cummer@netvigator.com> Subject: [Leica] Texas Capitol Pictures To: lug@leica-users.org Message-ID: <05689C3F-E51E-4758-AFDB-C863D71D32D6@netvigator.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Sanjay Those are really good - thanks for showing them. The Quicktime panos are most impressive and make me wonder "how did he do that!!" Cheers Howard MicroAssist, Inc. 3420 Executive Center Drive, Suite G100 Austin, TX 78731 http://www.microassist.net Phone: (512) 794-8440 Fax: (512) 794-8742