Hi All
Despite all the critics received in this mailing list I'm glad that my
commercial attempt inspired some of you. Well done Wim for your
PanoCycle concept. The Seitz VR drive is a nite piece of equipment but
unfortunately it could'nt do the job in Paris when being in the crowd
(too slow as people moving). I tried it out with my D300 and my Sunex
Superfisheye that can produce full spherical panos in 3 shots, but I had
too many ghosting errors, reason why I finally used the Roundshot D3.
Anyhow good luck for your project and please don't hesitate to ask any
information related to my experience in Paris.
Cheers,
Thomas
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[hidden email], Wim Koornneef <wim.koornneef@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Hello Forum,
>
> Inspired by the commercial project of Thomas Demolliens and his
production
> of a tour of the Champs Elysee this morning the idea popped up to
create a
> PanoCycle concept.
>
> The concept is based on my old Batavus bicycle, a piece of aluminium
tube,
> size 2000x30x3mm, an aluminium strip (top), a iron strip (bottom),
some
> bolts, a selfmade U clamp, and some pvc tape.
> On top of the aluminium tube a Seitz VR Drive + NodalNinja R10 ring
(zero
> degree tilt) + EOS 5D + shaved Tokina 10-17@12mm is mounted.
> The drive is controlled by a wired remote controller that is attached
to the
> tube with velcron tape.
>
>
http://www.dmmdh.nl/panos/panocycle/panocycle_setup_02072009/image_001.h\
tml
> Short URL:
http://tinyurl.com/lyapnu>
> Under perfect summer conditions I shot 51 panos (4 images around) over
a
> distance of less then 1.5 km in 52 minutes so each pano took approx. 1
> minute for shooting and cycling.
> Images are shot in JPEG with a customized camera setup for sharpness,
> contrast, etc.
> To remove the CA and fringing all images are later batch processed
with an
> ACR Photoshop droplet.
>
> I manually created a EasyStitch (*) template for PTGUi with one of the
panos
> and based on this template I created 51 batch templates with PTGui
Batch
> Builder and created all panos with PTGui Batch Stitcher.
> (*) When using a precise lens calibrated template that is fine tuned
for
> pitch and roll of the images and by setting this template to only
optimize
> for the lens params d and e and image params y, r, p (for all except
the
> first image) and by enabling automatic setting of CP's and optimizing
new
> projekts (settings in the Projekt Settings tab), batch stitching is
very,
> very easy, hence my name "EasyStitch" for this method ;-)
>
> The output of PTGui is batch processed in Pano2VR, the output is
downsized
> from equirectangulars of 6800x3400px (**) to 1500px cube face size to
get
> fullscreen panos of less then 2 mb.
> (**) The panos created by PTGui are smaller then the max possiible
size of
> approx. 8400x4200 px to enhance processing speed.
> The panos are embedded in HTML files that links all panos (use arrows
to
> jump to the next/previous pano or use the number links).
>
>
http://www.dmmdh.nl/panos/panocycle/panocycle_first_test_02072009/image_\
001.html
> Short URL:
http://tinyurl.com/mywrcg>
> As you can see the navigation is not really suited for such a large
number
> of panos, there should be a controller inside the flash panos with a
slider,
> a map and hotspots but making such a controller and embedding all
stuff into
> a flash project is outside the scope of the concept.
> Keep in mind that from the first idea until the finishing of the
production
> all took less then 12 hours and except for the making of the device,
the
> cycling, the fine tuning of the PTGui template and the creation of the
> Pano2VR projekt file all is done fully automatically.
>
> For me this was a fun projekt, for commercial purposes the workflow
and
> method is not suited but I hope it inspire you to do your own crazy
summer
> thing ;-)
>
> Best,
> Wim
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