Nodal Point, 24 Elmarit?

[ChrisC]

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Howard - Thank you, but I honestly think my subject's input was greater than my talent's with this example, although I believe the location will be a fertile place for my work and I'm glad you enjoyed the picture. Yes the figure in the background is a person, at the time he really irritated me standing there but I've changed my mind about him being cloned into the clouds - after all, the presence of a figure to give scale in landscape photographs was good enough for early pioneers like Timothy O'Sullivan! The camera was about about 4.5 feet [around 140 cm] off the ground, I used a Manfrotto 302PLUS panorama rig which is heavy and solidly made, but stupidly designed in the sense that it does not break down for easy transporting, it's circular bubble spirit level is so positioned that it's dead-level position can be very hard to read the higher off the ground the rig is placed.

 

Khun - Thank you for posting your panoramas, it looks like Tibet was very productive for you. I was hoping someone with CS5 stitching would contribute, but I would need CS3 [if that's the stitching software I opt for] to be able to comfortably cope with the horizontal lines of urban environments such as pavement lines and telephone and power lines; do you think CS3 is capable enough to do that?

 

Sander - Thank you, there is a lot of information to be gleaned from your post, and I enjoyed seeing your panoramas. The Corrour Groupblog makes me regret no being bi-lingual so I could access all of it's writing, and the link to the Novoflex designs will be useful for anyone looking at Panorama Heads. With more funds available I could be tempted to try the Novoflex 'cross arm plates' on my Manfrotto levelling base to give improved portability and more accurate levelling.

 

Pt Gui is E79 VAT, and PT Gui Pro is E149 + VAT, the latter is required for HDR stitching,Do you use the Pro version, and if so would you recommend it?

 

What an amazing resource this forum is. Thank you all once again.

 

....................Chris

[vanhulsenbeek]

Pt Gui is E79 VAT, and PT Gui Pro is E149 + VAT, the latter is required for HDR stitching,Do you use the Pro version, and if so would you recommend it?

 

Hi Chris!

 

HDR is a bridge too far for me at the moment, so I am content with the E79 - oeps, a little more than I thought - version. But it rocks!

[Photoskeptic]

Sander, your contraption looks a bit "Rube Goldberg" but I bet it works great. I, too, am using the Novoflex base and have found it a terrific addition to my tripod.

[khun_k]

Well, these are my set up, apart from sometimes I just handheld the camera for a series of quick capture for stitching. Before CS3, I was using and still using Realviz, for its ability to merge good panoramic as well as the ability to stitch fisheye images. I sometimes need to do QTVR movies for smaller room/interior/gallery, something CS3 still not able to. Besides, the Realviz support HDR, almost all major file formats - Maya's iff, ppm, sgi, tga, w3d, spi-V to name a few, and can convert the rendering between different setups. But I have to say the CS3 is a major leap forward from CS2.

The 2 primary set up I use, one is the Seitz VR drive, quite compact as you can tell from the picture, and it is done automatically (especially if the camera come with electronic shutter then it just does everything - even bracketing for HDR stitch - I use that with my Canon DSLRs using the cable supplied from Seitz, with M8, I need to use cable release and do it manually), the Seitz VR can actually srive my medium format with digital back, small, but powerful. Although in panoramic stitching it is not necessary to have to be levelved, if you do, there is a Manfrotto 438 camera leveller - on the bottom of the VR drive, that will come handy and keep the overall set up lower to reduce wind drag.

If I need to use DSLR and bigger tele lenses, then I will use the Manfrotto setup, also pictured, becuase that will be really too heavy for the VR drive to run. But the bracket system is quite similar to Seitz or RRS (perhaps the best but quite expensive).

These set up will allow multiple roll of capture that can result tens of capture and stitched to became Hope this will help.

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[vanhulsenbeek]

Hi Khun-k!

 

Your setup looks great! It is just made for 'three row panorama's: one row horizontal over the horizon, one row above with the camera tilted 30 percent up, and one row with the camera tilted down 30 degrees.

 

The result of three rows of pictures PtGui ( see my previous and quite verbose post in the thread) is able to handle (CS3 I do not know if t can) and the result looks like what you find here:

 

Corrour Groupblog 2007: PTGUI HDR

 

Embelished here with HDR. Just click on a picture and please tell me if your good taste was shocked or not. I am not sure, but it is interesting enough :-)

 

From the 'amateur' of Rube Goldberg set ups:-)

[ho_co]

Chris--

The texture of the ground is so vivid that I thought the camera must have been only a few inches from the terrain!

 

I know the feeling of wishing that person would get on about his business and get out of my picture, but I think his presence worked in this case.

 

 

 

Off topic, but possibly of interest to panoramists:

 

Check out the posting for July 20, 2007 at Astronomy Picture of the Day.

 

This is a US site that is updated daily, so if you check and the image isn't a panorama of a place you haven't yet visited, use the "Archive" link near the bottom of the page to fine the posting for 20 July.