Destiny wrote:Hey.. As far as I can work it all out.. The Freedom360 rig was the first of its kind using the Heros cameras made by GoPro to create a full sphere rig setup.. So.. who makes the blue rig, is this 360Heros and is this a GoPro company..??? They are not on the GoPro website … Checking out the Kolor shop, I am confused as to why the blue rig cost more than the Freedom360, when to me it looks better made, but I have never had one in my hand to test this assumption.. Now there is a 3D version of the blue rig and can’t help feeling that it’s a bit too much for so many things to go wrong.. Wear and tear of the holding flaps seems to be a bit iffy to me for long term use, where as the Freedom360 rig looks to me like it’s a lot more secure where screws are holding the cameras in place..
So, what is the story of the blue rig setup… why does it cost more…. Is this made by a 3rd mob, 360Heros.. I can see the 3D version and oh man.. eeeks.. So many cameras… surly the entire thing would wiggle and jiggle about if moved.. I am assuming that its a GoPro owned rig since its name is the same as their cameras..
Destiny..
asiavr wrote:i owe one of the 360hero rig and i can tell you their support is suck.
asiavr wrote:i suggest you go for freedom rig. i bought my hero rig winter last year and i still struggled to make my first video pano.
Twan wrote:We own a 360hero for a couple of months.
It simply works great.
The first time you need to convince yourself that the plastic will not break.
We use it with 7 Hero3+, the stability is great.
Let me know if you need a picture of the complete setup.
Twan
Twan wrote:Ahh, see what you mean
Attached a link to an experimental view.
http://360visuals.nl/PanoTours/toren/Romer%20Toren.html
Please keep in mind that I'am really new to this, so suggestions or observations are welcome.
Twan
Destiny wrote:Yes... A well made aluminium precision rig sounds good, but $$... My understanding was the Freedom 360 was much better made and more stable rig, so less prone to movement... My husband said probably possible with a cast and 4 axis CNC... We saw one doing its thing once... Just amazing.. It changed its tooling on the run...
So, what software did Twan use to stitch this example pano.. I like this example very much since it shows closeup and distance.. The closeup has a lot of very interesting features like metal and tiles.. The other examples I have seen were outside and inside a hotel.. Lots of tiles.. Same issues, poor stitching and blending at the ends.. Which I did not expect..
What I would like are the raw images to test myself the stitching using APG.. I am guessing that there are no fine adjustments in the rig, so its just a matter or installing them into the rig and securing them... Its for this reason why I am sceptical about the 360 Heros.. The Freedon360 pano images I saw were not as bad as the example Twan provided, probably due to a more solid construction...
Destiny..
klausesser wrote:Destiny wrote:Yes... A well made aluminium precision rig sounds good, but $$... My understanding was the Freedom 360 was much better made and more stable rig, so less prone to movement... My husband said probably possible with a cast and 4 axis CNC... We saw one doing its thing once... Just amazing.. It changed its tooling on the run...
So, what software did Twan use to stitch this example pano.. I like this example very much since it shows closeup and distance.. The closeup has a lot of very interesting features like metal and tiles.. The other examples I have seen were outside and inside a hotel.. Lots of tiles.. Same issues, poor stitching and blending at the ends.. Which I did not expect..
What I would like are the raw images to test myself the stitching using APG.. I am guessing that there are no fine adjustments in the rig, so its just a matter or installing them into the rig and securing them... Its for this reason why I am sceptical about the 360 Heros.. The Freedon360 pano images I saw were not as bad as the example Twan provided, probably due to a more solid construction...
Destiny..
probably due to more experienced users - Twan stated to be new to this. Maybe his Hero-Rig was for another type of GoPro - they ran minor changes the of focal length several times. Shooting far distances that´s not of a big issue - but shooting close distances AND far distances in one shot it definitely rises issues when the rig is tailored to the previous model. I guess the diferences in focal lengths can be compensated in the stitcher´s editor - but as said: Twan`s new to that.
Good exercise for him to edit the errors . . .
Klaus
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