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Topic: Web Site and Forum / Search on Gigapan.org

I’m not certain, but based on my own experience the tag index is only updated periodically, perhaps daily. It’s definitely not instantaneous.

Topic: Stitch / Stitch 2.0: Dig up the old panorama photos

Good news, Mosley – Save projected images is back. Hallelujah, indeed!

Topic: Indoor Gigapanning / Museum

Hi, This is a test I made some weeks ago. Used Epic pro whith Canon 1ds mkll. the lens was 70-200. My idea was to create a realy sharp pano, showing details in every painting. I took about 100 expos and this is the result. The room is about 15x 8 meters. Could I have some advice to go further on whith better qualitet?

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Search on Gigapan.org

I think I got the answer to my own question…..it just takes a little time for updates to be found.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Search on Gigapan.org

I’m trying to understand a little more about the search functionality on the website. A search for my name will bring up all my gigapans but I’m not finding them using tags or other info?? Does it take a while after adding tags etc. before searches find them?

Topic: Stitch / Sticher 2.0 and EFX

Great, Thanks for the update!

Topic: General Gigapanning / I am having a hard time with my Epic Pro

James,
I think it depends on the distortion of the thens in the edges.
The softwares that are used to stitch the photos together are orienting on the fine details of the photos you use.
The more distortion in the edges of your photo, the less the quality of your end result will be.
Generally the GigaPan is constructed to assist you with huge panos made of lots of photos with telephoto lenses.

And it’s true, for a pano made with a wide angle lens you don’t really need GigaPan.

But, GigaPan can help you even with panos made with wide angle lenses.
I think your problem is the sofware you used. I found the GigaPan stitcher not very helpful with wide angle panos.

With my Canon 5D MK II / TS-E 17 Combination I’ve made some good panos using the Panorama Studio Pro 2 software.
I was using an overlap of 30% with RAW format at full 5D resolution and it worked fine. No autofocus. “Av” mode. Correct nodal point for Camera/Lens Combination set.
You should take care of some good and sharp details especially in the overlap sections of each photo, because all softwares need them for stitching.

I for my part would say, GigaPan is great for wide angle lenses, maybe GigaPan stitcher is not.

Topic: Third-Party Stitchers / 3rd party software with your device or uploader?

I’m using “PanoramaStudio 2 Pro” most.
The Software is capable for 360 Degree Panos and for Gigapans as well.

I have tested alsmost every Software for Pano Photography the last weeks and found “PanoramaStudio 2 Pro” (http://www.tshsoft.com/en/panostudiopro_index) the most useful for my way of photographing.

The best thing is, that out of the box, the software is able to stitch Panos without any manual adjustment. Just pull the Pictures into the program and let it stitch itself.
With Pictures taken in fair quality (good light, sharpness and detail conditions) the results are very good with these automatic adjustments.

As I’m generally taking photos in RAW mode, it is a must for the software I use to understand RAW.

Pros and Cons for “PanoramaStudio 2 Pro”:
+ RAW input
+ single and mutiple rows
+ 360° by 180° spherical
+ Automatic row/coulumn detection
+ Automatic stitching
+ Panoramic viewer software for the Web included
+ Good quality output
+ fair Price Tag (70€/$90)

- For commercial use the Viewer must be licensed / paid for each domain you use it on (50€/$60)

Topic: General Gigapanning / soft on edges on stitched image

Hi there, I am brandnew at this and was hoping to spped up the learning curve with others expertise! Using a 300 mm zoom, the left and right edges were soft after stitching. Do I need to back up from the full 300 (it’s a 70-300 zoom), the scene was all infinity for focus (range of mountains). Manual focused and everything else was sharp. Should I choose something special when stitching? Thank you!

Topic: Stitch / PTGui pro

Hmmm…230 /40 = 5.75. That’s much less than “20 times”.

I have compared the results w/ a smaller number of images and PTGui Pro was faster than Stitch.

One issue is that PTGui is available in 64-bit version, so it accesses more memory and runs faster than an equivalent 32-bit program. Next, Stitch appears to do some of the processing on the GiagPan servers [rather than my local box]. This means that if I have a slow PC and a fast internet connection, I can get rapid results. But, if my internet connection is slow, then it will control the overall process timings.

I have an 8-core box, running at 3.4 GHz, w/ 16 GB of RAM and a sorta fast internet hookup [5.25/1.62 Mbps on Speedtest.net], to get you calibrated. I just tried the same [small…16 images] job on PTGui Pro and Stitch. Stitch took 0:36 and PTGui took 0:47. BUT, after this 36 seconds, Stitch didn’t have anything completed…only a 32 kb .gigapan file! In contrast, PTGui Pro had completed a 92,370 kb .jpg file.

I don’t know what is in that .gigapan file, but it can’t be much…it appears to be only a small preview [the PTGui Pro file was 2887 times bigger)! When I told Stitch to upload the panorama, it took a whopping 7:30. It doesn’t take 7 1/2 minutes to upload 32 kb, so something quite different is going on?

It’s difficult to make a generalization like this. PTGui Pro has many more capabilities than Stitch. One program operates locally and the other operates remotely. Their results are not comparable [the PTGui image was 23,716 × 5,037 px, whereas the Stitch image was 23,576 × 4496 px.

I don’t know how to render a Stitch image as a JPEG and get it on my local box [or even if it’s possible…a quick search indicated that only TIFF and DNG outputs were possible?], so trying to get comparable processes in order to time the entire thing may be difficult.

Topic: Stitch / Sticher 2.0 and EFX

Yahoo!!!!!!!

Topic: Upload / What is the problem ?

Fritz would you mind contacting customer support regarding this issue, unless you already have. Thank you.

Customer Support Page:
http://gigapan5.gigapan.com/cms/support/contact…

Topic: Stitch / Sticher 2.0 and EFX

All existing Stitch users will shortly be getting an email with the discount information you’re asking about. I won’t say the exact amount, though it’s a pretty solid discount.

Topic: Stitch / Sticher 2.0 and EFX

It’s great that existing users get a free upgrade to 2.0. My question is will it cost us $149 just to upgrade from 2.0 to EFX. Looking forward to experimenting with the vignette correction!

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Edit one of your posts ?

It does not work for me !!!!

Topic: General Gigapanning / Banding on images

Ron,

The banding is from vignetting of the lenses, the slight dimming toward the outside edges. You can get rid of it by pre-processing each image in Photoshop or using a stitcher that has the correction built in. Gigapan Stitch 2.0 with .efx will have that feature and will be released soon. Otherwise your pans are perfect. You might want to use a longer telephoto to get more detail, however, every lens can have some degree of vignetting that has to be dealt with. You can do test panos with a 3 × 3 patch of clear blue sky to see the effect and the result of corrections. More overlap in the photos can reduce it, but it is better to apply a correction that is specific to the lens. Good luck.

Dave

Topic: General Gigapanning / Banding on images

Hi All,

Does anyone have any tips for reducing the apparent banding in the images. Camera is set to manual, exposure and focus locked.

Ive only done 2 pano’s so very early days and still learning lots.

Please have a look at the images and let me know your thoughts.

http://gigapan.org/gigapans/99411

http://gigapan.org/gigapans/99341

Cheers

Ron

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Meaning of Epic 100 blinking battery icon

Thanks everyone. I kinda gave up on these forums back when I posted several questions and heard nothing but crickets. I’m using Eneloop batteries, so I suspect that the blinking doesn’t tell me anything useful as Tim suggests. I’ll check my cells, but I use a high end charger that conditions cells and gives me a charged capacity value for each. It sounds like I should do a dry run to get a ballpark idea of how many shots I can get on a set of cells and then try to keep count in the field. Battery indicators are rarely accurate, but usually better than this. I’m still surprised I can’t find the indication in the manual.

Topic: Embedding / Embedding Sample Code -- fullscreen, snapshots, large views

Hey everyone —

Inspired by comments in the two threads about embedding with snapshots and enabling full-screen mode, I started hacking around to come up with some sample code to make a much cleaner interface for viewing gigapan images.

Here are a couple sample pages:
http://www.saracino.com/gigapan-embedlarge/giga…
http://www.saracino.com/gigapan-embedlarge/giga…

I’ve posted the sample code to github — so everyone can download and modify it to suit their needs:

https://github.com/barneyzang/gigapan-embedlarge

Most of this code is based on snooping the output of the gigapan.org website and inspiration from Ronnie Miranda’s post in one of the other threads.

I’ll be the first to admit that this is a complete hack and that it requires a willingness to modify html source files (though, it’s relatively straightforward).

I’ll also be the first to admit that I’m an html/css/js novice, but hopefully there’s enough there to be useful to someone. Please feel free to suggest improvements (or submit changes to github).

— Joe

Topic: Upload / What is the problem ?

I uploaded the 30 GP gigapan with the uploader.

There is now a black square in the overview gigapan. Is it resulting from a problem with the uploader or comes it from the viewer or something else ?
Thanks
Fritz

Topic: Digital Cameras on Gigapan / Shutter release cable

Hi -

Sorry to be so late replying. I use the E30 and the cable is far too short when I mount a Leica Telyt-R 400 f6.3 lens using the lens tripod mount. The 400 is an old-school telephoto lens that is physically the focal length, and that makes the cord too short. I have simply used a simple short USB extension cable to lengthen the USB cable to work, but only after I broke 2 cables…

Topic: General Gigapanning / I am having a hard time with my Epic Pro

Don’t use wide angle lenses! The system is designed to use telephoto lenses: it is the only way to avoid distortions. Using wide angle lenses is to be avoided!

Topic: General Gigapanning / What lenses do you guys use?

Let’s see…I’ve used the following lenses on the Epic 100, using an Olympus E510: 40-150 kit zoom (excellent @f8, by the way), 70-300 Zuiko, 200 f4 Nikkor and 160 f3.4 APO Telyt-R.

Using the Epic Pro and an Olympus E30, I’ve used the 70-300, the Telyt-R 180, as well as a Sigma 600 f8 mirror lens.

I’ve got a Vivitar 200 f3 and a 400 f6.3 Telyt-R waiting for warmer weather to be tested on the E30 and Epic Pro.

Topic: General Gigapanning / What lenses do you guys use?

canon 70 -200mm is not truly the best

Topic: General Gigapanning / I am having a hard time with my Epic Pro

I did a panorama using Panorama Factory on the weekend with a new Nikon 14-24mm F2.8 ED lens. I also found it gave distortions and was not well suited.

I thought about it later and wondered if I first processed the images in Photoshop or DXO to repair the distortions for that lens (Ken Rockwell publishes the lens distortions settings for Photoshop to correct for various lenses) that it may then work.

I haven’t done that but I think it would be a vital first step.

Greg