Comments on: Hands-On With The GigaPan EPIC http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/02/19/first-look-at-the-gigapan-epic/ Deliciously Geeky... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: andrew liszewski http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/02/19/first-look-at-the-gigapan-epic/comment-page-1/#comment-406005 andrew liszewski Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:57:46 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=20861#comment-406005 Yes, there's no reason it couldn't do that to get a rough grid of images gathered. The time difference between series of shots is more than long enough for the software to make an intelligent guess as to where a series begins and ends. However, you'd still have to go in and weed out duplicate shots anytime you had to do re-takes during a shoot, which was every time for us.<br><br>As it stands the GigaPan Stitcher software is definitely pretty basic right now, and there's plenty of room for improvement and polish. Yes, there's no reason it couldn't do that to get a rough grid of images gathered. The time difference between series of shots is more than long enough for the software to make an intelligent guess as to where a series begins and ends. However, you'd still have to go in and weed out duplicate shots anytime you had to do re-takes during a shoot, which was every time for us.

As it stands the GigaPan Stitcher software is definitely pretty basic right now, and there's plenty of room for improvement and polish.

]]> By: andrew liszewski http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/02/19/first-look-at-the-gigapan-epic/comment-page-1/#comment-394683 andrew liszewski Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:57:46 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=20861#comment-394683 Yes, there's no reason it couldn't do that to get a rough grid of images gathered. The time difference between series of shots is more than long enough for the software to make an intelligent guess as to where a series begins and ends. However, you'd still have to go in and weed out duplicate shots anytime you had to do re-takes during a shoot, which was every time for us.<br><br>As it stands the GigaPan Stitcher software is definitely pretty basic right now, and there's plenty of room for improvement and polish. Yes, there's no reason it couldn't do that to get a rough grid of images gathered. The time difference between series of shots is more than long enough for the software to make an intelligent guess as to where a series begins and ends. However, you'd still have to go in and weed out duplicate shots anytime you had to do re-takes during a shoot, which was every time for us.

As it stands the GigaPan Stitcher software is definitely pretty basic right now, and there's plenty of room for improvement and polish.

]]> By: Austinkir http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/02/19/first-look-at-the-gigapan-epic/comment-page-1/#comment-394679 Austinkir Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:28:09 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=20861#comment-394679 Why doesn't the GigaPan software just look at the date modified attribute on the picture files to automatically put them in the correct order? Or look for number sequences in the file names? Why doesn't the GigaPan software just look at the date modified attribute on the picture files to automatically put them in the correct order? Or look for number sequences in the file names?

]]> By: beejamin http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/02/19/first-look-at-the-gigapan-epic/comment-page-1/#comment-394663 beejamin Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:13:48 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=20861#comment-394663 Dorian - something like this is good because it rotates around the nodal point of the lens (I'm presuming that's what the 'line up through the little hole' step is for) - which is the only way to eliminate parallax errors when you stitch your panoramas together.<br><br>Also, gigapixel+ images are composed of hundreds of multi-megapixel shots, taken at high zoom. Doing it with a tripod and a manual panoramic head is slow and fiddly - as far as doing it hand-held goes, forget it - it'd drive you insane. Dorian – something like this is good because it rotates around the nodal point of the lens (I'm presuming that's what the 'line up through the little hole' step is for) – which is the only way to eliminate parallax errors when you stitch your panoramas together.

Also, gigapixel+ images are composed of hundreds of multi-megapixel shots, taken at high zoom. Doing it with a tripod and a manual panoramic head is slow and fiddly – as far as doing it hand-held goes, forget it – it'd drive you insane.

]]> By: Dorian http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/02/19/first-look-at-the-gigapan-epic/comment-page-1/#comment-394652 Dorian Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:05:25 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=20861#comment-394652 Or just take a ton of photos on your own without having to use such a contraption and use the free program Autostitch (<a href="http://www.cs.ubc.ca/%7Embrown/autostitch/autostitch.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autosti...</a>).<br><br>Seems waaaay easier and far cheaper....AND Autostitch sorts the photos for you! Or just take a ton of photos on your own without having to use such a contraption and use the free program Autostitch (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autosti…).

Seems waaaay easier and far cheaper….AND Autostitch sorts the photos for you!

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