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Topic: General Gigapanning / Fastest shooting-settings?

did you change the motor speed setting in expert options?

Topic: General Gigapanning / Fastest shooting-settings?

Hello,
I´ve seen this video of gigapan epic pro and it´s working quite fast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiIN8TCrsGc

I´ve tried to change my settings to speed up the shooting-process (so changing everything possible to 0.0s / 0.5s), of course shooting in manual focus, but my Gigapan isn´t as fast as the one in the video.

Which settings do you use for fastest shooting-speed?

Regards,
Maw

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Remotely control the gigapan unit

We apologize for the delayed response. I’d like to let you know that GigaPan has plans to create a remote for the GigaPan EPIC Pro. Since this type of functionality is still in the development phase, we don’t have an estimated release date, however, we will be sure to keep you updated as this new feature progresses. Thank you for your feedback and please let me know if you have any other comments or questions.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Remotely control the gigapan unit

@Colin – I agree 100%. which unit are you speaking of, by the way? The Epic Pro has a start delay function, and can also be started with a remote. Here’s a quote from the manual:

Start Del/Trig – Enables a timer delay of {External Trigger, 15s, 30s, 45s, 1m, 2m, 5m, Timer } before the panorama capture begins. The external trigger setting is designed to work with a Canon E3 style remote shutter that is inserted in the EPIC Pro remote trigger port.

I suppose you could pre-set the number of rows/columns, send it up on the crane, and use a GoPro3 and the gopro app for positioning. (There are hotshoe mounts for the GoPro that let it sit right on top of a DSLR)

. . .then start the panorama with the remote.

The difficult part would be leveling the imager after it’s up on the crane, but given the FOV of the GoPro, you could probably stick a level somewhere that you could actually see it.

I’d love to see wireless full control of the imager with an iphone app, myself but I don’t know if there’d be enough demand to persuade Gigapan Systems to develop one at a reasonable price point.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Remotely control the gigapan unit

I agree.
We definitely need a remote for the unit.
I’ll try to disassemble mine and see what can be done.
If anybody has got an idea, he is welcome.
I’d add that epic 100 needs heavy hacking to be really functional.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Remotely control the gigapan unit

Hello? Guess not.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Printing

I think the best answer is to prepare a frame FIRST, and then crop or cut your gigapan to fit. I have 3 rolled up prints in my closet that I didn’t think through.

-Acrylics and polycarbonate sheets max out at 4×8 feet.
-24" tall prints will sag even when sandwiched, they have to be attached to a stiff backing.

It might seem like sacrilege, but consider cutting your gigapan into 24×36″ lengths and putting each segment in a standard poster frame. You can get poster frames for $20 and the effect is actually quite nice when you hang them all in a row. Not to mention you can take them down and stack them in a small box for storage or moving (or selling!). It isn’t the same as a 10’ print, but it also doesn’t cost $500+ to look good. You can even hang them around a corner to create a 3D view.

bkaylor

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Printing

Hi James,

This wallpaper sounds fantastic! Wow!!!

Jason

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Printing

Hi Moseley, Possibly true. I should clarify that the self adhesive samples we tested were PVC if I remember correctly. If the film you used stayed put for overt two years then I am thinking it must be a permanent adhesive. I think adhesives vary. We also overlap slightly to obtain a perfect fit. Butting causes too many printer issues.

There are many ways to skin a cat and almost as many ways to hang wallpaper. We also find it much easier to hang paper with paste because it allows some initial movement to get a perfect alignment.

PPS I got the price wrong on our wallpaper. It is not GBP18. It is only GBP12.50 per square meter which is about US$18.90. Sorry for mistake.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Printing

I must respectfully disagree. I have seen the wall film that I refer to (possibly not available in the UK, and printed with latex inks) stay in place for over 2 years without any shrinkage, sag, or other distortion. Also, the proper installation method for that product if it must be applied in sections is to overlap it 1 – 2 inches, not butt panels up to each other. When done properly it is practically invisible.

I’m not trying to cast aspersion, though. Some printable wallpapers, when properly printed and applied are a perfectly viable alternative for photo murals.

Topic: General Gigapanning / Product suggestion

I think the is an great idea

Topic: Digital Cameras on Gigapan / Fuji X-E1 remote connection for Epic100

Well, to answer my own question: Turns out that the Canon E3 trigger cable plugs directly into the remote port on the Fuji XE1 and works! I was cautioned by Gigapan that since they have not thoroughly checked it out that there’s a possibility that there is electronic incompatibility, but everything still seems to be working after many uses!
It’s great how much faster and steadier the system works without having to use the button-pusher. The only problem is that I’ve found I have to set the Gigapan to take photos with a 2 second lag since the camera can not keep up with processing the raw image files fast enough.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Download GigaPans

Don’t know what resolution you would get but you could try ‘share’ then email it to yourself. Might be over your permitted attachment limit though.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Printing

Our company has just started printing photos on wallpaper. We can print any size. It is a pigment ink technique so not toxic and suitable for indoor use. We charge GBP£18 per square meter which is about US$28 per square meter. It can be fixed to wall using regular wallpaper paste. We print in wide 36" strips so not so many joins between panels. Right now we are selling it exclusively on eBay. The item number for the listing is 261185562071 and the link is http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261185562071 or just search for “your photo on wallpaper” We ship worldwide and if you mention gigapan.org I can give you 10% off.

As a note, we trialed adhesive backed papers and decided that it was not a good product choice. It doesnt stay up long and tends to contract slightly over a period of a few weeks and small but noticeably gaps start to appear between panels. If you are going to do it then you might as well do it properly.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Remotely control the gigapan unit

Dear Gigapan Systems,

You should seriously contemplate hiring a Social & Community staff member for your company. The first link on your navigation for your website is “Community” yet you don’t regularly maintain your relationship with this community or promote it. I think it’s bad for your business.

Topic: General Gigapanning / which is the best file format for printing and web use?

Hello

YOu can also use a viewer like KRPano to host it on your own web space if you have a website.
The following pano was made using a source image of 22962×9552 pixels and the result http://www.vue-360.com/P2/ is fast to display, keeping the zoom possibilities.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Plug spec for elect. shutter release

I wish I could get in to the old forum…so I could learn from my past self!

For the Epic Pro, I created a different Arduino circuit to fire two Panasonic’s stereoscopically.

Although I have not confirmed this, I suspect the circuit could be much easier to make by incorporating this $10 TriggerTrap dongle: https://triggertrap.com/shop/cl-l1/

The dongle creates the right resistor values for the Panasonic when the phono plug connections are shorted, so the circuit could probably be driven from the Epic Pro directly using optoisolators or maybe even directly from the Epic Pro.

Long answer short: yes, for less than $30 in parts, I drive Panasonics with Epic Pro, and yes, to do so, you will need to build a simple circuit and use a soldering iron.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Plug spec for elect. shutter release

“Here is my post on the topic from the old forum, I was using some extra hardware as I wanted a delay for focus and used an arduino mini for the project. I am sure it can be done simpler, but it works great.

The full thread is here: http://forum.gigapan.org/viewtopic.php?t=35 , read it all to have the best understanding…

I now have a Gigapan Pro unit so have not used this in a while"

Jason,
How is this different for you now that you are using the Epic Pro?? Are you using the Panny with the Pro??

Topic: Digital Cameras on Gigapan / Epic Pro and Panasonoic Lumix GH2

searched the forum and came up with this:

http://gigapan.com/posts/search?mine=true&q=gh2

hope this sends me on my way!!

Topic: Digital Cameras on Gigapan / Epic Pro and Panasonoic Lumix GH2

My very first post….

I ordered an Epic Pro (already in shipping). I assumed it would work with my Panasonic Lumix GH2 and I wanted the bette rmodel as I am preparing to buy a more professional camra and lens next year.

Of course, I should have consulted the compatibility page first.. but I thought (maybe incorrectly) that the better model (Pro) would be able to handle any camera that the 100 would :(

Panasonic uses an optional push button trigger as well. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Dean R.

Topic: Gigapan Mechanism / Remotely control the gigapan unit

I’m in dire need of a way to control the Gigapan unit remotely. I find it hard to blieve that functionality for this wasn’t thought of? The Gigapan unit is most useful when elevated above the scene you want to shoot, in order to get more rows in the photo, I therefore want to use it on a crane but have no way in which to control the unit once it is elevated.

Please may you work to a solution for this please Gigapan. Or give me advice on how I may construct my own system for working the buttons of the unit remotely, or how I can interface with the unit safely.

Thanks,

Colin.

Topic: General Gigapanning / Need Longer Trigger Press...

I have a Nikon D800E which clearly isn’t a slouch of a camera and for reasons I can’t explain, it doesn’t have that feature. Sony clearly has one up on Nikon on that one. (BTW: I hear the A99 is quite the camera.)

I’m not sure why the Gigapan limits it to 8 seconds, it sure would be easy I’d imagine to add 16 and even 32 seconds as options.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / Download GigaPans

A hard drive “mistake” resulted in the loss of quite a few of my GigaPans (I know, shame on me). Is there any way I could download the ’pans from the web site?

Topic: Competitions / Largest Gigapans

The above mentioned site is in direct contravention with the Gigapan website terms and conditions, and also with the intellectual property rights of those who contribute work to Gigapan.

No attempt was made to contact me prior to including my work on the above website, and the owner seems to think that he is in contravention neither of my IP rights, nor the terms and conditions of Gigapan’s website.

Apparently, he seems to think that he is being “courteous” by complying with my request to remove my work.

If this kind of behaviour is allowed to continue so flagrantly, then clearly Gigapan are not making any effort to implement their own terms and conditions, and I will be removing all work from the Gigapan website.

Regards,

Gerald.

Topic: Web Site and Forum / SCANDAL! no, but a minor quibble

The contests do have issues. What is needed is to only be able to vote on an image once, not change votes. A voter should not be able to see the rank of the other images until the end, as a high ranking image garners the low votes to push it down. Perhaps only allow images to be upvoted by a voter once voted upon, not downvoted. It is too ripe for manipulation by downvoting the current leader, it should not be possible to see the leader while voting is underway. Perhaps a voters overall vote tally should average to 3, so if they vote 5 on one image and 1 on twenty others, those 20 others would get counted as a vote of 2.95 and the 5 would be 3.1.

Perhaps a voter should not be allowed to vote until they have actually viewed say at least 1% of an images tiles in the viewer. (They should really not be voted on on how well the 800 pixel wide representation looks!!!)