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About This GigaPan
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Ron Schott
- Explore score
- 85
- Size
- 0.91 Gigapixels
- Views
- 2695
- Date added
- September 04, 2009
- Date taken
- August 05, 2009
- Gear
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Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
GigaPan Epic100 (1st generatio...
- Categories
- environmental, geology, landscape, nature, travel
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- Tags
- mount, rainier, glacier, volcano, fofs, epic100, 20x8
- Description
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Still hazy.
Stitcher Notes
ToggleMinimizeGigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.4090 (Windows)
Panorama size: 907 megapixels (52254 x 17362 pixels)
Input images: 160 (20 columns by 8 rows)
Field of view: 52.7 degrees wide by 17.5 degrees high (top=16.7, bottom=-0.8)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: Canon
Camera model: Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Image size: 3648x2736 (10.0 megapixels)
Capture time: 2009-08-05 20:09:55 - 2009-08-05 20:19:30
Aperture: f/5.7
Exposure time: 0.00125
ISO: 80
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 565.2 mm
Digital zoom: off
White balance: Fixed
Exposure mode: Manual
Horizontal overlap: 28.0 to 34.5 percent
Vertical overlap: 25.9 to 30.8 percent
Computer stats: 3069.98 MB RAM, 2 CPUs
Total time 2:03:26 (0:46 per picture)
Alignment: 9:27, Projection: 9:52, Blending: 1:44:07
Ron Schott (September 04, 2009, 02:51PM )
I'm not certain exactly how many batteries I went through that day, but I can give you some idea of the arsenal of batteries that I carried with me. I had two GigaPan units along - a Beta and an Epic100 - though there was only one point when I used the two simultaneously. I also had three cameras - the SX10 and two S5 ISs. All but one of the GigaPans I shot on the August 5th was shot with the Epic100 SX10 combo. I had no less than 60 AA NiMH rechargable batteries along for the day - 8 Canons, 8 Eneloops, 12 Duracells, and all the rest Sonys. With 4 in each camera and 6 in each GigaPan unit, I also generally had 6-12 in spare GigaPan battery holders (Thanks Erin!) ready to swap in as required and 8 in the charger running off the inverter in my Jeep at all times. Throughout the day I'd continually swap spent batteries into the charger and rotate recharged batteries into the cameras/GigaPan robots as necessary. I shot the 1900 image GigaPan of St. Helens - Spirit Lake (scheduled to stitch this weekend) on a single set of freshly charged batteries in the Epic100/SX10 rig, though I had to swap in fresh batteries for a 200 shot pan right after that. Needless to say, I'm rapidly building an expertise in "battery management". ;-)
Stoney Vintson (September 04, 2009, 01:56PM )
I looked for the filter accessories for this camera and did not find any. You would probably need to tape a filter on once you achieve critical focus. This is NOT something that I would want to do : ) Ron, I understand the time thing. I am amazed that you took so many panoramas. 16 panos in a day. That is a lot! How many batteries did you use?
Ron Schott (September 04, 2009, 12:53PM )
Thanks for the suggestion, Stoney. I think a polarizing lens is a great idea here, but I'm not sure if one is available for the Canon SX10 IS - it doesn't have any threads for additional lenses such as a teleconverter, so I'm not sure how one would affix a polarizing filter to this camera. If I do find a solution that works with the SX10 IS I think it would be a good addition to my kit. The sunrise/sunset suggestion is well taken, as well, though you probably realize that I was shooting lots of GigaPans on this trip and on days such as this I took the shots whenever they presented themselves. (August 5th was my most productive day on the trip with 16 GigaPans shot, so I was really hustling between them.) I wish I had the luxury of hanging around to shoot each one at the optimal time of day (perhaps someday when I figure out how to make GigaPanning pay the bills I'll do just that), but at least on this trip I could only plan my days to optimize one or two of the shots - the others fit in where they were available. You'll note that I took the Windy Ridge shots of Mount St. Helens in the morning when light was more optimal there, and these Rainier shots in the afternoon, simply because that's when I got there. This one might have been better a couple of hours earlier, for example. I'll have a better idea next time I get up to the Pacific Northwest how to plan my shooting. Hopefully I'll be blessed with "severe clear" weather, too. I do appreciate the suggestions, Stoney - please don't take my explanations as defensiveness. I'm still striving to improve my photographic technique and I welcome your constructive feedback.
Stoney Vintson (September 04, 2009, 10:14AM )
You probably already know this, but I thought I would mention it just in case. Using a polarizer helps reduce glare. Also, photographing near sunrise and sunset helps, but you cannot take a large gigapan, because the light is changing quickly. So using a polarizer would help reduce the haze. You can also make an adjustment to the midtone level and black levels in Photoshop to reduce the haze. Greg ward included a PSF function for reducing flare ( haze ) for light sources, but I do not know if it would help for this situation.