beautiful shot, nice work

Hope to one day make it there.

Henrik
Western Australia

Hi Vahonon, what beauitful lens's you have! Off the bat, I think if you connect your camera to your laptop (if you have one) I think Canon's DPP software, will let you make those controls, changing settings without touching the camera, I don't have the wireless remote kit, but I would think you coul...

Hi Klaus, Do you have a time frame for when this will be available to us mortals, eg the less technical minded aka the Plug'n'Prey generation? On another note have anyone here had a look at this http://www.hdrlabs.com/news/index.php The DS remote controller....never thought I would be tempted to "bo...

Hi Klaus,

what will the whole package cost? merlin and all the required soft and hardware? will it support a Canon 1-series camera? the 300mm lens you tested with, what f/ stop was it, I mean was it a f/2.8

thanks

Henrik

PS: is the mounting like the Arca Swiss?

google translate works like a charm!

thanks

learning something new everyday its just fantastic

Henrik

Thanks digipano, I better go looking for that addon! I too have found it frustrating, as my french is very very very basic, but enough to see that there is some valuable information in the conversations. I am Danish by birth but have resided in Australia in the past fourteen years and have been slow...

looks like I need to read up about those anchor's and their usage too!

thanks

Henrik

']All that is very interesting and should help people that stitch huge projects, I guess. Currently, however, for smaller projects the most important part is still the CPU and HDD speed, as long as SmartBlend is concern. On a grander scale, I'd rather have a multi-CPU machine, as most current softw...

damn, I didn't get myself organised, there is always next year

Henrik
Dane Down Under
Perth, Western Australia

How fast can the Merlin, move the camera around?

I was thinking if one could attached this to a Large format camera and let the Merlin move the camera around in a 3x3 to archive a large size image, but using flat stitching...eg only move the rear

thanks

Henrik

Thanks Frédéric,

much appreciated

Henrik

Bonjour Gutten tag, god dag, hello, Pardon, my lack of french language skill, however, I do share a similar interest in the Merlin project, could a kind soul, please give me a break down at where we are at (or where you are at) in english or danish, swedish, I only speak broken french and german, bu...

hmmm, quad GPU, now we are talking :-)

Henrik

You should be able to process your images in PM and use its generated 16bit tiff file in Autopano, I have done so many times. Actually should be able to do it either way. this may be a typo but your mail "I set manually the 3 EVs (0, 2 and 4), then photomatix crashes" that should read EV (-2, 0 and ...

Hi guys, I too would like to get involved with this, I am interested in astro photography or at least I would like to get involved. However, I am using Canon 1-series camera, would they be usable on one of these beasts, the Orion or Merlin? Since I live in a rather warm climate, western australia, i...

Hi

i think it is a fab idea, I will be happy to contribute with images from Perth, Western Australia

Henrik
A dane down Under

Just adding to my own post....I would replace the Arca Swiss B1 ball head with a really right stuff BH-55 or if you use lighter camera's then the smaller one. and I would ad the panning quick release plate on top!!! ':-) not cheap but it is probably the best out there

Henrik

NOTE: you can't just use a ball head to adjust for leveling, unless, you have a panning base on top of your ball head ...eg like Really Right Stuff, your rotation will be skewed AFAIK tell. I use Gitzo legs, 1548 carbon the big sucker and a pair of smaller legs Gitzo Explorer 2200 metal of some sort...

i think you have to move up to the 48xx models to have roll feed, i have an older 4000 model and it should be able to do upto 42inches long

Henrik

any one know of a good french translator? I am kicking myself here, because it is all very interesting, but then the french bit comes in, and I have to guess to hard to work out what is being said.

thanks

Henrik

there is a talk about a new HDRI program over at www.hdrlabs.com which looks to give a better output then Photomatix...or maybe it is just my untrained hands that are lacking the proper skills to master or tame Photomatix :-)

Henrik