GURL wrote:Which kind of subject ? (if you know, that is...)
GURL wrote:Using Google, I was not able to find the Gigapan size and weight specifications...
klausesser wrote:Believe me - you´ll save a lot of labour (correction of lense´s/chip´s faults) and you´ll win a lot of quality!
The camera´s price-ranges are not so far apart that it really compensates the more of problems . .
best, Klaus
P.S.: i saw a gigapan-head on my last journey - i never would buy one. The Merlin head is much better at a comparable or even better price!!
gerardm wrote:The Newest canon -G9 was used with the teleconverter on xrez's yosemite project. The RAW files seem ok for a PS.
Aeriscera wrote:klausesser wrote:Believe me - you´ll save a lot of labour (correction of lense´s/chip´s faults) and you´ll win a lot of quality!
The camera´s price-ranges are not so far apart that it really compensates the more of problems . .
best, Klaus
P.S.: i saw a gigapan-head on my last journey - i never would buy one. The Merlin head is much better at a comparable or even better price!!
I'd like to move up to a DSLR although it's arguable that I don't even know how to use the camera I have already got, but for the moment, gigapan unit compatibility is the issue.
Thanks for the heads-up on the Merlin though - I will look for prices. I'm being offered a gigapan for $279.
Aeris.
klausesser wrote:The Merlin head starts at about 150.-€ w.o. tripod - coming from Austria.
GURL wrote:Automate robotic pano head inventor Donfrench exchanges with potential users on Max Lyons forum and the links it includes (Outbackphoto test, his own web site) are very interesting.
http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?p=30040
Aeriscera wrote:klausesser wrote:The Merlin head starts at about 150.-€ w.o. tripod - coming from Austria.
A timely post Klaus - I was just googling for the Merlin - without success - when this post arrived. Do you have a URL please?
Also, looking at an old thread about the Merlin elsewhere on this BB, it seems the Merlin is not self-contained in the sense that you need some sort of PC to control it. Is this right?
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How to mount a D200 to the Gigapan unit.
OK, here is the scoop. The modifications only work with certain lens combinations and sometimes only to a certain degree of tilt. You need to minimize the torque on the elevation gearbox/servo or the servo will not hold.
I have good luck with the following as far as not causing slipping 10.5mm, Sigma 15mm, Sigma 60mm macro, Nikon 105mm macro with the lens not extended out for macro focus, and 500mm Samyang mirror lens. You have to find the sweet spot for balance when mounting all of these combinations. For the wide angle lenses, the camera is NOT moving about its lens nodal point so there WILL be stitching errors on close objects. The camera really needs to sit back a few inches to put the center or rotation in the sweet spot, but the servo will never be able to hold that torque. This has not bothered me so far as I have just been taking photos of distant objects.
I am using a $3 L bracket from True Value is all (really!), plus a remote IR setup for the D200, some nuts and bolts.
I mount the IR transmitter to the camera mount tray and let the button pusher push the transmitter. Sometimes I mount the reciever onto the tray or sometimes just leave it atop the camera. The transmitter just hangs from its power cord and strap (need to mount it somewhere but I like it hanging as it minimizes any vibrations.
When I use the 500mm lens I need to use mirror lock up and the Gigapan Unit can not do the double shutter push, so I just do the shutter releases manually (its an option under expert gigapan options on the units menu). You have to push 'next' on each frame on the gigapan unit.
To mount the L bracket I took out one of the four black screws on the elevator gear (the one next to where the thumb screw for the camera bracket) and using a longer screw mounted the L bracket here, and used the thumb screw next to it for additional support.
As I said, some lens combinations will overwhelm the servos holding power. It will slip. This is not hurting the Gigapan unit or its gears, its the servos electromagnets that are not able to hold so there is no damage being done to the gigapan unit (it will sound scary though, but its just like moving the unit when it is powered up). When the Gigapan powers down be careful that your camera does not crash into the unit as there will be no holding torque when its off.
I have also mounted a Glass Sigma 500mm lens to the unit, mounting the L bracket firmly to the Unit so no elevation rotation is possible and doing the elevation rotation by hand on the lens-Lbracket interface with a thumb screw holding the lens to the L bracket. Really need to minimize vibration with this heavy lens setup so mirror lock up is mandatory, strong tripod, etc. Its a heavy lens. I use the gigapan unit then just for horizontal movement of the lens (1.8 degrees field of view set on gigapan setup) and I have the lens rotated in its bracket so that the photo sequence will work with the gigapan stitcher (which is expecting top left down and accross to bottom right, so I rotate the camera90 degrees to the left and start with the bottom left, each row moving up to finish at top right, then the stitcher has no problems putting it all together like always).
Aeriscera wrote:Interesting Beeloba! Thanks for that.
beeloba wrote:klausesser wrote:Well - for a device that´s even more expensive than a Merlin . .
I agree with you Klaus, this is a very difficult choice to make… I'm waiting for the DSLR gigapan head, but its a very long expectation since the public beta version is not even a final one.
beeloba wrote:I'd really love to see an exceptional view of Pultney bridge, not from the outside view, but a view took from the bridge's street itself, showing the shops… which is the most pleasant view of that old bridge.
beeloba wrote:I'm waiting for the DSLR gigapan head, but its a very long expectation since the public beta version is not even a final one.
GURL wrote:Klausesser, I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you.
Visiting www.gigapan.org is enough to see that Gigapan device is not a "no-go" (though not all displayed panos on this site were shot using the less expensive Gigapan prototype.)
Ditto for Auto Mate wich is not, as you said, "unsuitable for pano-photography". The test published by Uwe Steinmueller is just a proof of the contrary.
I certainly would not buy an Auto Mate because it would not fit my own needs. About the Gigapan light version, I don't know for sure. To argue the pro and cons of those heads for the kind of panos one shot and stitch is something very useful but, I presume, what you said slightly exceeded what you really think.
For motorized pano heads the common rule is to reach a compromise between what is possible and what is not. This includes the more expensive ones where compromises are a heavy weight and a high cost. This includes the less expensive ones where many more compromises are needed to reach a lower cost and a lower weight...
I hope this is not the beginning of a flame war:
Aeriscera wrote:Personally I prefer this view.
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