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Topic: General Gigapanning / Adjust mounting tray

thank´s charles davis

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Few questions

Hi!
Any hint regarding these issues?
Thanks,
Martin

Topic: General Gigapanning / Adjust mounting tray

I’m not sure who “they” is? Regardless, it’s not possible to tell you the answer to your question. Read the manual.

No, it isn’t easy to understand [especially if English is not your primary language], but it does work.

However, I think it’s easier to do from first principles. However, that requires that the user to understand some technical stuff…

1. The goal is to get the Entrance Pupil located on both rotational axes.
2. You must measure where the Entrance Pupil is located [it varies as the FL varies].
3. Move everything until that Entrance Pupil is in the center or motion.

Here is a simple way to locate the Entrance Pupil:

http://www.1derful.info/Tools/PanoHead/LensNode…

Good luck…

Topic: General Gigapanning / to set ‘Field of View’

This is a simple process, made more difficult by the wording…

Which model of GigaPan do you have?

With my Epic 100, when it shows that message, it wants the user to hit the “OK” button…then it will prompt you to align first the top and then the bottom of the frame with the horizon. It then has measured the vertical FoV…it will display the value.

Note that the V FoV is different depending on the specific FL selected [IE, “zoom”]. Your 10X camera has many FLs that vary over a 10:1 RANGE. You should select ONE of those FLs and go through the FoV measurement process.

It’s not possible [at least on the low-end model like I have] to directly set the FoV value.

Topic: Digital Cameras on Gigapan / Epic w/ any Current Cameras?

Ok so I did the research myself and discovered that many of the cameras on the list are available albeit at pretty high prices. Seems to be a group of resellers that sell older cameras at above original list. The cheapest was the Canon A480 at $99 but it apparently has quality issues. And there is a Canon SX210 with a wide angle for $250.

One question is about where the listing stops. I see a Canon SD 1300 for $135 and a SD 1400 for $200 but the listing stops at SD 1200. Near as I can tell the 1400 is mostly smaller (a little wider) and it has AE-Lock. Why wouldn’t it work?

Any recommendations on camera selection would be appreciated as I was wasn’t expecting to be in the market.

Topic: General Gigapanning / to set ‘Field of View’

EPIC it will prompt you to set ‘Field of View’
What value to put FujiFilm x10?

Topic: General Gigapanning / Adjust mounting tray

Can they be kind enough to inform me, because you can not find information on which the value Adjust mounting tray / operating arm / Find this black number on the scale arm (in the GigaPan Epic) for my FujiFilm x10 machine.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Shooting order

Another reason to do columns-down is a dusk pano where the light would get dimmer as you shoot. You could increase the exposure slightly with each column and not have obvious banding.

Topic: Digital Cameras on Gigapan / Epic w/ any Current Cameras?

I bought the Epic after convincing my daughter to give me her old Canon SD500. Unfortunately its just not the reliable anymore. I end up with missed shots on even a fairly small pano.

Support tells me I can’t use my Panasonic even though it fits and I’ve had some luck with the “pano mode” trick that somebody suggested in the General forum.

Are there any cameras that fit the EPIC that you can still buy new? I was hoping somebody could save me searching Amazon for all the cameras on the list.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Shooting order

My experience has also been that if there are lots of people moving around, you’re best off with left to right, rather than top to bottom. While neither is perfect, the left-to-right tends to handle moving objects, in my experience, better…

Topic: General Gigapanning / Manual or Autofocus on crowds?

I use autofocus for everything. If the crowd is far away like this:
http://gigapan.org/gigapans/45332
then manual focus would be fine as well. With people walking in front of the camera like this:
http://gigapan.org/gigapans/86283
I rather like having them be in sharp focus.

Topic: General Gigapanning / Enter FOV directly?

Me, I’d like to have a number of lenses remembered by the unit. Switching between lenses and forgetting to reset the FOV is my most common error…

Topic: General Gigapanning / NOT Panoramic use of Gigapan

Another non-photographic GigaPan:
http://gigapan.org/gigapans/65819

Topic: General Gigapanning / Enter FOV directly?

There’s no keypad so entering a FOV directly would still be difficult. Since it’s not something most users need to do often I suspect it’s a low priority for the development team.

Topic: General Gigapanning / Missing pictures - Autofocus

Stitch requires all the positions to be filled. If you’re missing pictures, you can fill them in with blanks as you see on the right side here:
http://gigapan.org/gigapans/41161
You can make it less noticeable by making your blanks the same general color as their surroundings, or cloning in from the sides. Since the robot overlaps images by about 1/3, you already have 8/9 of the missing picture.

Topic: Digital Cameras on Gigapan / EPIC 100 and Canon T2i

I’m using a Canon 60D on an Epic 100 and staying under the weight limit. The trick is to use one of the light weight plastic kit lenses that Canon makes. I’m using the EF-S 55-250mm that I got on ebay for $150. When the mounting plate is pushed all the way back it balances just fine. You also need a shutter release cable. The one GigaPan sells can be made to work but it’s a tight fit with the 60D, there’s not much clearance. I ended up making a cable up that has a lower profile and allows me to square the camera properly.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Shooting order

In one of his tutorial videos, Illah Nourbakhsh mentions that it is sometimes better to shoot a crowd (in a stadium for example) from left to right in rows, because people tends to move or change its position horizonatlly and not so much vertically.
Sounds logical to me.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Few questions

Hi!
I´m about to buy the Epic 100, having already one of the first and original beta heads.
1-Now I want to know if it is possible to use/adapt the battery holder as part of an AC adapter using the cables and the connector.
2-Somewhere I´ve read that the Nikon D90 can be used on the Epic100 with the digital shutter mode. Is that possible and how will it be connected. The plug of the remote port trigger cable that is listed under accesories is not the one for the D90.
Thanks for any help regarding these issues.

Regards, Martin

Topic: Stitch / Version 2 won't run...

Paul, I quickly found that LR 4 can remove the GPS data…when exporting, check the box under “Metadata” that reads “Remove Location Info”. That does it.

And that allows Ver 2 to load my pix.

Please fix Stitch so that it will not error out and use the GPS data to describe the location, rather than having users look inside a file and extract the numbers. :-)

Topic: Stitch / Version 2 won't run...

Paul, unfortunately LR was unable to remove the GPS data successfully…it CAN zero the Lat/Long data, but that doesn’t make Stitch happy.

I also tried PhotoME which has the same limitation, ie, it just lets me change the content of the fields but doesn’t seem to have a way to remove ALL GPS tags.

I’ll do a search and see if I can find something that WILL obliterate everything…

Topic: Stitch / Version 2 won't run...

Thanks for the quick response, Paul.

I saw another thread where GPS data caused Ver 2 to error out. I DO have GPS data [I worked really hard and spent a LOT of $ to get that data]. I’ll try removing it in Lightroom 4 and save out a different set of source images and see if that is the issue.

To answer your “what did you do” question:

1. Bump up the Number of Rows to 8…
2. Click on Add Images…
3. Select 16 images in a set of 192…
4. Click on Open…

I get an error window that says:

“stitch.exe has stopped working”

followed by the normal “Win will close the program and tell your mother…” message.

Topic: Stitch / Version 2 won't run...

Thanks for the quick response, Paul.

I saw another thread where GPS data caused Ver 2 to error out. I DO have GPS data [I worked really hard and spent a LOT of $ to get that data]. I’ll try removing it in Lightroom 4 and save out a different set of source images and see if that is the issue.

To answer your “what did you do” question:

1. Bump up the Number of Rows to 8…
2. Click on Add Images…
3. Select 16 images in a set of 192…
4. Click on Open…

I get an error window that says:

“stitch.exe has stopped working”

followed by the normal “Win will close the program and tell your mother…” message.

Topic: Stitch / Stitch 2,0 crashes

Thanks, Jason, you beat me to it! That’s the advice I’d give, too! We plan to fix the accented character bug in a future version of Stitch.

Leonardo: Jason takes some incredible photographs, too. See http://gigapan.org/gigapans/18003

Topic: Stitch / Version 2 won't run...

If you can tell us what steps you had done (e.g. double-clicked on the Stitch app, version 2.0.0501, clicked on “Add Images”, selected 140 images, …) and the error message says, exactly, that would help me or other people to diagnose your problem.

Two questions I’d ask:
Do your images have GPS coordinates in them (in the EXIF header of each file)?
Do your filenames or folder names use accented characters?

If you want more customized and less public help, you could email customerservice AT gigapansystems.com

-Paul
GigaPan Stitch Developer

Topic: Stitch / Officially released today: Version 2.0 of Stitch and Stitch.Efx

On 3/20, we released a small bug fix to Stitch 2.0. We expect this will be the standard version for several months.

If you run Stitch or Upload some time in the future, and you’re connected to the internet when you start it running, and you’re not yet updated to this version, you should see a popup window that says something like

or something similar for Windows. I suggest you download the new version and install it!

If you’re wondering “what’s the difference between version 2.0.0440 (or 0441) and version 2.0.0500 (or 0501)?”, the answer is:

Stitch versions 2.0.0500 (for mac) and 2.0.0501 (for windows) are a bug fix to versions 2.0.0440 and 0441. The differences are small:

• fixed a bug that made it difficult to use Save Projected Images in Stitch.
• restored ctrl-left-mouse and right-mouse as ways to control zoom, in Stitch’s viewer (useful for users whose mouse lacks a scroll wheel).
• splash screen displays for two seconds when Stitch is started even if user is still in 14-day Stitch.Efx trial period.
• if opening a .gigapan file on Mac, and file references missing images, dialog box informing user appears on top of splash screen
  (it used to be hidden, and cause the program to hang).

-Paul
GigaPan Stitch Developer