On 26 Oct 2004 at 21:58, Doug Franklin wrote: > So, as long as you're in the ballpark, how much does it really foul up > the works if the camera's not _exactly_ level? I mean, as long as you > don't change the tilt/pan/whatever of the head as you rotate things > around, you're going to come back to the same spot, right? There are > plenty of places you could set up the camera perfectly level and the > horizon is sloped anyway.
If the platform isn't level the final image may need significant horizontal cropping to be of use, and as you can imagine if the images are used to construct a 360deg VR image the undulating horizon could be a little disturbing :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
