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Topic: Digital Cameras on Gigapan / Epic 100 remote port with Nikon DSLRs?

I know the manual for the Epic 100 says it’s only compatible with the Canon E3 connector. However, is there an adapter that will allow it to work with Nikon devices?

The goal is to hook up a Nikon D5100 via the Remote Port on an Epic 100.

Is this possible or will I have to hook up the mechanical button pusher?

Thanks!

— Joe

Topic: Stitch / Editing in Stitch

Can I crop within the stitch app or do I have to export, crop then upload?

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Epic 100 Arm Scale

New to Gigapan hardware but been a fan for years. I just received my Epic 100 and have done a few test pans with my D90 and 18-70 kit lens. I’m not that clear on the arm scale and D90 positioning though. I see several black scales that converge on the mounting hole but I also see radial red lines too. Since there are two planes of movement (horizontal and circular), I’m not sure exactly where to lock it down. WIth the D90 the extender plate is all the way to the rear. The test pans look ok, but I’m assuming the alignment was sheer luck. I’d like to understand it a little better before I go out and do some larger pans. Thanks and Happy Holidays! -Tim

Topic: General Gigapanning / Tripod Poll

I’m in the market for a good, sturdy tripod to mount my Epic 100 and D90 on. I’ve been “window shopping” past week or so and my head is pinning with so many options including Manfrotto, Dolica, Slik, etc. I’d like to hear from anyone with similar setups and what kind of experiences you’re having. I don’t think I need a fancy head and would probably be satisfied even with a simple plate to mount the Epic 100 on…and level it with the leg adjustments. Thanks!

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Total Views

Although count increments are not instant, the views are counted, and updated periodically.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Bug: Snapshot Links Don't Work

dave, ‘tag’ searches/filtering is being worked on as well, and should be in testing soon. thank you.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Bug: Snapshot Links Don't Work

661, a fix to take care of the link issue you described is in que for testing. thank you!

Topic: Embedding / Limit to number of embeds?

The Gigapan site shows that we are only allowed to embed 5 gigapans as PLUS members- Is this right?
I have several people interested in using me to shoot for them but they would all want to be able to embed the shots in their sites.
Is there a way to change the limit?

Topic: Low-light Gigapanning / Motion Blur

John,
There could be several causes for blurry photos:

The moving platform might not have “settled” before the picture is taken.
a. To get around this, turn on your camera´s Self-timer function and set it to 2 seconds.(Several cameras have a 2-sec Self-timer built in).
The button-pusher might not be holding down the camera button long enough.
a. Navigate to Options > Expert Options > Button Hold in the GigaPan Menu.
b. Use the directional keys to increase the time that the button-pusher will hold the camera button down.
The platform might be moving before your camera has taken and stored the picture.
a. Navigate to Options > Time Per Pic in the GigaPan Menu.
b. Use the directional keys to increase the time that the GigaPan will wait before moving. This is especially useful for night-time panoramas.

Topic: General Gigapanning / estimate number of photo

Tom,
To do a simple pano on the GigaPan don’t use the up or down buttons, just the left and right to set the left and right perameters for the image. You can also select a 360 in the main menu and when it asks you to move the camera to the top of the panorama just click “ok”, do the same for setting the bottom (don’t move it up or down) and then it will shoot a single row 360.

Topic: General Gigapanning / estimate number of photo

Francesco,
The GigaPan determines how many pictures are required based on 30% overlap and which focal length you’re using. Since the GigaPan does not know what lens you’re using you need to set the vertical FOV under Camera Set Up. Once this is set up the imager will know what focal length you’re using based on the vertical FOV. When you set the upper left corner and the lower right corner the imager will determine how many pictures are required to fill that area. Just remember that the longer your focal length the more pictures are required to fill that pano, and usually a higher quality image.

Topic: api.gigapan.org / is there no API anymore

Hi Chris,

This is a bug in our legacy support and we’ll definitely get around to fixing it. No ETA though. More than a week, less than a year.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Total Views

This may not qualify anymore as “soonish”, but you should start to see newish gigapan’s view counts being adjusted.

E.g. http://gigapan.org/gigapans?categories=&order=m…

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Gigapan viewer and 90 degress gigapans

The new fullscreen gigapan viewer is excellent.

But if I have a gigapan produced with a large vertical span (almost to the top) I could recommend to view the gigapan with Google Earth. The link to produce .kmz files is gone.

If I have now a gigapan like http://gigapan.org/gigapans/94620 the gigapan is completely misformed in the upper part. A church looks like on the mentioned gigapan.

It would be real good if there would be a viewer which would allow to see a 90 degrees gigapan like you see it in the sticher or like you see it in the Google Earth viewer or on a VR viewer on the internet. I think Kilgore661 proposes also a way to show 90 degrees or near 90 degrees viewer.

Topic: Low-light Gigapanning / Motion Blur

My Epic has no delay between pushing the camera shutter button and moving to the next location. A two second exposure captures blur every time.

Short of a firmware upgrade, is there a way to fix this? Is there a firmware upgrade?

Manual mode is not acceptable.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Fewer people viewing Gigapans

Phil, I agree that there really isn’t much motivation or incentive to create/post new Gigapans if nobody is really going to see them. I enjoyed creating Gigapans to be shared and it was a fun “challenge” to see if we could get the “interesting” count up. The way the site is set up now, well, who cares? Unless it was the most popular Gigapan nobody will ever really see your posts.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Total Views

“This new website really sux.”

While I agree with you for the most part, I can see why they changed the website. It definitely is more modern looking, but seeing the most recents should have been a priority and an after thought. I used to frequent this site more often because it was easy to see what new gigpans people made. It made me more motivated to create them. The way it’s set up now, I kind of lost interest, especially since nobody really looks at them.

Topic: General Gigapanning / Godzilla size gigapixel

Thaks Phil

Just a couple of questions:

1) So when you take the pictures you save them to RAW in your camera?

2) What’s photoshop scratch disk?

3) Is the final RAW file too heavy?

Regards

Topic: General Gigapanning / Godzilla size gigapixel

I usually export them to RAW. This is Photoshop RAW. Take note of the popup when saving the photo as it contains all the info needed to reopen it in Photoshop.

Also get a computer with lots of horse power and memory, put Photoshops scratch disk on a seperate disk.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Total Views

This problem is also discussed here
http://gigapan.org/forums/13/topics/65
It would seem that this issue is not high on the list for the web team to fix. I have noticed it with every gigapan I have viewed, not just one or two. Not only does the view count not go up but the explore score stays the same.

This new website really sux.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Total Views

Mismo Problema, las visitas señala “0” http://gigapan.org/gigapans/94007 Es Un mosaico Internacional Que ha debido servicios Visto Muchas veces en Muy Poco tiempo

Topic: General Gigapanning / estimate number of photo

hum sorry tom but i didnt understand if our answer is serius and in-topic :)

Topic: Stitch / Stitcher update?

I have 1.0.0805. I think it’s the latest. Too bad the website doesn’t list the latest release number.

Topic: Stitch / Stitcher update?

I have 0.4.3865 and can’t help but think there’s been an update since 2009. I can’t find one, nor does the stitcher software have an update checker. Is there someplace to find an update?

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Bug: Can't add/remove featured gigapans/members to group

Tried different browser, but the “add” and “remove” buttons don’t react, so you can’t select the featured gigapans/members for a group.
Workaround: Extract the ajax urls from sourcecode.

Btw: the page navigation at this pages doesn’t work as well.