Monster stills in Vegas.

farss wrote on 9/25/2009, 4:24 PM
I came accross some images from the Seitz 6x17 panoramic camera. Took a while to download these as even the jpegs clock in at 75MByte.
Just to checkout V9's gigapixel capabilities I dropped one onto the time line and proceeded to do some zooming and panning. Nothing went wrong and it rendered out just fine although it sure took a while. Adjusting the event pan/crop did take a lot of patience, probably as I'm running under WinXP with only 2GB of RAM. If doing this for than just giggles you could need to wrangle some serious aliasing issues, even in progressive.
My only regret is I'll never be able to afford one of these cameras.

Bob.

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OdieInAz wrote on 9/25/2009, 8:40 PM
Wow! That is a Hubble size picture. Here is one that is 63 Mbyte JPEG and 455 MByte "full size" image... This one is a TIF.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/html/heic0602a.html
John_Cline wrote on 9/25/2009, 9:59 PM
You can make your own massive and stunning panoramas using a digital camera and this program:

http://www.autopano.net

The results are truly software magic.

A free program using a subset of the technology used in AutoPano Pro can be downloaded for free here:

http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
GLADDEN wrote on 9/25/2009, 10:31 PM
Did some for some of the international airports,,, 70 feet long,, 9 feet tall... Did it all by hand with Adobe... it was jjust about 1G in size... Super Beautiful.

GLADDEN.
farss wrote on 9/25/2009, 10:41 PM
Maybe someone can give me some advice. Are the panoramic heads worth getting or is the software so good now that a basic good tripod is adequate?

Bob.
JJKizak wrote on 9/26/2009, 5:31 AM
Can someone briefly walk us through how this is acomplished with a standard digital camera?
JJK
farss wrote on 9/26/2009, 6:08 AM





That should get you started. Later versions of photoshop include the tools for stitching, some cameras come with their own software or there's a couple of programs for doing it,

I've seen ones done from handheld shots too. What I'm curious about is how much value the panoramic heads which let you rotate the camera around it's optical axis add to the outcome. These heads look cool but are expensive.

Bob.
Chienworks wrote on 9/26/2009, 10:06 AM
I just tried the autostitch program that John mentioned above. It's amazing! It's terribly automatic; merely select a group of files and click "open", then wait for the result.

http://www.hobart-ny.com/panoramas/

http://www.kellychien.com/ashokan-pan-2-4000.jpg
http://www.kellychien.com/ashokan-pan-3-2500.jpg
http://www.kellychien.com/ashokan-pan-4-3000.jpg

All these were taken handheld with my cell phone. The "river street" and "maple street bridge" were from 12 individual shots each. I did do some trimming to get rid of the rough edges, but nothing more than that.
AlanC wrote on 9/26/2009, 12:24 PM
Great photo's Kelly, but where are all the people. Did you airbrush them out?
Chienworks wrote on 9/26/2009, 12:27 PM
People? There are people here? I thought one of the reasons i liked this place so much is because i'm the only one here! ;)
AlanC wrote on 9/26/2009, 12:35 PM
You lucky man!

I recently got into panorama photography but couldn't find anything suitable for viewing the finished product so I wrote a programme in VB, I know you do a bit of programming yourself, but if anybody wants a copy just say the word. It only plays horizontal pano's but has smooth, automatic scrolling with variable play speed.

Alan

Edit: And it only plays jpg's and bmp's
John_Cline wrote on 9/26/2009, 12:39 PM
Yes, the free Autostitch program is pretty amazing, but the commercial version, AutoPano Pro, is positively astonishing.

Those are very nice panoramas, Kelly.
navydoc wrote on 9/26/2009, 1:45 PM
After you create your panorama, you could use the free "Zoomify" program for viewing on the web.

http://www.zoomify.com/

You can view samples at the above website.

Doc