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About This GigaPan
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David Engle
- Explore score
- 110
- Size
- 0.12 Gigapixels
- Views
- 3599
- Date added
- December 07, 2010
- Date taken
- December 03, 2010
- Gear
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Nikon D7000
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- Tags
- rice, dle, statue, houston, sam, museum, train, zoo, 11x1, texas, riceu
- Description
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A nice day in the park ... a few days later, a bitter south Texas cold front of 36 degrees came through and kept this GigaPanographer inside.
Previous panoramas and GigaPans of this immediate area can be seen via these two links: share.gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=9906 and www.gigapan.org/gigapans/25558/
My plan for this visit to the museum was to take a panorama of the fossil area and to take snapshots of the rocks and minerals that are on view at the Houston Museum of Science.Afterwards, I walked outside and saw this view and decided to take a panorama with my Nikon D7000 and the 18-105mm 3.5-5.6G ED Nikkor lens.
Although the panorama consists of only 11 stitched photos, thanks to the GigaPan Stitcher software, seeing it as a curved panorama on a curved surface via the "View in Google Earth 4.2+" link can be memorable.
And as always, more technical info can be seen via the Stitcher Notes.
Stitcher Notes
ToggleMinimizeGigaPan Stitch version 1.0.0804 (Macintosh)
Panorama size: 116 megapixels (24320 x 4784 pixels)
Input images: 11 (11 columns by 1 rows)
Field of view: 144.1 degrees wide by 28.3 degrees high (top=14.7, bottom=-13.6)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model: NIKON D7000
Image size: 3264x4928 (16.1 megapixels)
Capture time: 2010-12-03 14:34:21 - 2010-12-03 14:35:26
Aperture: f/11
Exposure time: 0.0166667
ISO: 100
Focal length (35mm equiv.): unknown
White balance: unknown
Exposure mode: unknown
Horizontal overlap: 25.7 to 51.9 percent
Computer stats: 2048 MB RAM, 2 CPUs
Total time 1:52 (10 seconds per picture)
Alignment: 25 seconds, Projection: 7.6 seconds, Blending: 1:20
(Preview finished in 42 seconds)
David Engle (December 09, 2010, 06:19AM )
Now you can see all the books I access in reference to English history. The above Bristol Temple Meads link is one of my favorites and I am sad that I will never have such a nice view as this for Houston, but maybe one day I will catch a ride on Amtrak and take a few panoramas of other train stations.
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (December 09, 2010, 01:19AM )
Bah! I am discovered!
David Engle (December 08, 2010, 12:41PM )
You must be reading over my shoulder ... maybe you have a webcam of my activity??? :) www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metro politan/7322027.html
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (December 08, 2010, 12:17PM )
You say this is the "zoo" train. Will we be seeing pictures of animals in forthcoming panos?
David Engle (December 08, 2010, 10:23AM )
One of my first hand-held D7000 panoramas ... www.gigapan.org/gigapans/62435/ I love trains ... when I was a kid, for Christmas one year I received a Lionel Train and it was *major* fun and when I grew older, there were other trains that I liked as well: www.thepeak.com.hk/en/5_5_1.asp&nb sp;
To answer your
question, I believe that every State has its train
folklore. A couple of years ago, a book was
published, *Stealing the General*, which told a
story about a train being stolen early on during
the American Civil War, and I believe that there
was a movie made about this event. But for many of
us here in the States, passenger trains are not
that important as they use to be (except on the
East Coast). But then, compare our low usage of
passenger trains with that of Europe, especially
England, where they are an essential part of daily
life for many of the English ... it is their way
of life: www.gigapan.org/gigapans/22226/
Tom Nelson (December 08, 2010, 09:07AM )
I remember (vaguely) a similar miniature train in Fort Worth when I was a little boy. I think it was at the zoo. Are such riding trains a big thing in Texas?