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RT-Visualization wrote:

Thanks for the reply.
I looked at the rigs and they seems basically ( except for the motorized ones ) just standard bracket that I can easily build by myself, nothing too complicated, but it would be a matter of build those properly, and since I'm a mechanical engineer and I got some friends who owns a shop I can rely on them.

@mediavets: Could you explain a little bit more why its almost impossible to get good results without a proper bracket? is because of the non perfect alignment on the floor? or is it because of the Fisheye lens?
I want to understand what is the ideal ( perfect ) situation for shooting interiors, and if the bracket is the main problem I'm going to build/buy one of those.

Thanks again!

no panohead = no chance that lens is perfect alligned in NPP = parallax errors = bad stitching

I use the 8mm on a crop camera... using the merlin head which has a certain nadir. for this I dont need to point my 8mm lens where the nadir is. ergo I use portrait mode to cover from zenith one row of 6-7 images than I turn my merlin sitting on a ballhead 90" so my lens is pointing 90" to bottom. than I move my cam/tripod so the lens is directly over the nadir point (which I mark with a stone or coin...) these 6-7+1 images I load into autopano. no tripod, no nadir patching etc. needed.

I use the T&C handcontroller with my merlin. this device does all calculation for me... it automatically calculates the number of images per row needed to cover a sphere or whichever pattern selected...

so even if you say that automatic panohead are "overhead" for FE lens panos... buts oh man ... nothing more easier to use....
Georg

Last edited by gkaefer (2012-10-23 12:05:06)

RT-Visualization wrote:

@mediavets: Could you explain a little bit more why its almost impossible to get good results without a proper bracket? is because of the non perfect alignment on the floor? or is it because of the Fisheye lens?
I want to understand what is the ideal ( perfect ) situation for shooting interiors, and if the bracket is the main problem I'm going to build/buy one of those.

That´s not only related to floor shots or a fisheye-lens. As Georg and Andrew mentioned you need to precisely align the NPP - especially indoors. Here it´s absolutely needed because of short focusing distance - shooting landscapes means long distances the NPP is not as vital as it is indoors.

Using a perfect alignment you don´t need more than 6+2 shots for a full sphere using the 8mm FE on crop or 15/16mm FE on FX.

I usually do 6x2 shots using a 5D2 and 2.8/15mm FE @25%. Using 20% overlap it´s just 5+2 shots. They give me around 220MPx for the equirectangular:
http://www.schloss-drachenburg.de/conte … dgang.html

best, Klaus

RT-Visualization wrote:

I did some reseach about the NPP and yes, definitively I need to build a rig, otherwise I will always have the same problem when stitching the shots

I will try to build one on my own and see if I'm able to solve the problem, otherwise I will turn to the shop to buy a proper one

Here's an inxpensive DIY 'design' that may give you some ideas:

http://www.peterloud.co.uk/nodalsamurai … murai.html

The least cost commercial pano head I know of is this one:

http://gregwired.com/pano/Pano.htm

I'm just a bit worried about my equipment ( Canon D1100 + Samyang 8.5 FE ), means if with this rig I'm able to get good results
Only recently I found out about the beauty of photography, so right now I have to work with what I have and I hopt it would be enough for me to start do to something good

Your gear is quite good enough to start with.