inMotion wrote:We will use Canon 5D mk2 with a 400mm and/or 600mm lens. - will this be too heavy for the Panogear/Merlin?
My question is, what are somethings that I should be aware of for my first shoot to go smoothly?
inMotion wrote:I'm not sure this is the correct forum for this, but here it is anyway.
My goal is at least a 180 degree 20 gigapixel panorama of a cityscape. The final output will be in a 10x1 aspect ratio, so in order to account for the height of some buildings, it may need to be more than 180 degrees.
We will use Canon 5D mk2 with a 400mm and/or 600mm lens. - will this be too heavy for the Panogear/Merlin?
We'll be using the panogear head. I am not the main photographer, but will be assisting in the stitching. The main photographer is new to shooting panorams, but we have done a test what we shot manually without a rotating head at 400mm. Here is some documentation and issues I had: http://www.kolor.com/forum/t14947-obviously,i-have-no-idea-what-i-m-doing.i-thought-i-did-any-ideas - Even though we didn't do the shoot correctly (needed same number of photos for each row, with similar overlap), I am quite happy how the stitching for the actual city turned out. (see image).
My question is, what are somethings that I should be aware of for my first shoot to go smoothly? What are some things that you wish you had known when you first started doing gigapixel photos? Also, is there any good tutorial for shooting gigapixel photos with the Panogear and gigapano pro? (I already have the DVD from Kolor)
Thanks!!!
inMotion wrote:Thanks! Advice taken on "do a smaller shoot first". Will do one tomorrow and post back tomorrow night with results.
We'll be using Papywizard, though we will get the Touch panel controller for the next city.
This is the lens that i used before, and will most likely use on the next shoot: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-100-400mm-f-4.5-5.6-L-IS-USM-Lens-Review.aspx
The weight of the camera w/o battery is about 850 grams and the 400mm lens is about 1300 grams...so well under 4kg limits. should be OK I hope.
inMotion wrote:Well, we just got back from the test shoot with the Panogear. We did just a small 100 image pano, as we only had about an hour left of day light.
I'm curious to find out how fast the panogear with papywizard is. For me, it took about 15 seconds for each photo shot. It seemed like it spent a long time just waiting at the shoot location before it would take the photo - even though the "wait for shake to stop" option was only at 1 second.
Also, the panogear would overshoot each photo by quite a lot, like around 100% more, and then go back to the shoot location. Does this happen for others? Does anybody have an explination as to why this is? If this could be eliminated, I think it would be able to complete the shoot in about 30-40% less time. As it is, it will take at least 4 hours minimum for a 20 gigapixel shoot. Is this what other people are also getting with a similar setup?
Finally, the camera kept on beeping and the autofous lights would light up in the viewfinder, even though everything was in manual mode. I've never seen this, it seemed like some sort of bug, or maybe the connection between the camera and lens was faulty even?
inMotion wrote:Well, we just got back from the test shoot with the Panogear. We did just a small 100 image pano, as we only had about an hour left of day light.
I'm curious to find out how fast the panogear with papywizard is. For me, it took about 15 seconds for each photo shot. It seemed like it spent a long time just waiting at the shoot location before it would take the photo - even though the "wait for shake to stop" option was only at 1 second.
Also, the panogear would overshoot each photo by quite a lot, like around 100% more, and then go back to the shoot location. Does this happen for others? Does anybody have an explination as to why this is? If this could be eliminated, I think it would be able to complete the shoot in about 30-40% less time. As it is, it will take at least 4 hours minimum for a 20 gigapixel shoot. Is this what other people are also getting with a similar setup?
mediavets wrote:The Touch controller allows faster shooting I'm told, but I don't know how much faster.
inMotion wrote:drat. i wish i knew that before i bought it. there should have been specifications on the main page about the shoot times with longer lenses.
here's an image of the 100 image test that took just about 30 min.
inMotion wrote:drat. i wish i knew that before i bought it. there should have been specifications on the main page about the shoot times with longer lenses.
Here's an image of the 100 image test that took just about 30 min.
inMotion wrote:Image is up. filesize was too big the first time i tried to upload. resized from 1.3 GP. was really shitty weather today...hoping for the best for tomorrow. this locaiton wans't ideal, but high and nearby.
inMotion wrote:Image is up. filesize was too big the first time i tried to upload. resized from 1.3 GP. was really shitty weather today...hoping for the best for tomorrow. this locaiton wans't ideal, but high and nearby.
mediavets wrote:Klaus would be able to tell you the expected battery life/autonomy of the T&C/Panogear LiOn battery system.
You could also consider an external battery pack.
inMotion wrote:This may be a really stupid question, but what does TC+accus mean?
inMotion wrote:doing another shoot tomorrow morning!
has anybody used this before? does it save much time? is there much room for user error when implementing this script?
http://www.autopano.net/forum/t6661-papywizard-high-resolution-preset-generator
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