Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 11/05/2010, Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > Things like movement or panoramic street photography are excluded > altogether. And we're not just talking formula 1 race cars, here. Try > doing a sea-side sunset with just the last little bit of the sun's disk > above the horizon in, say, a six-frame

Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-10 Thread George Sinos
Timely topic - A few weeks ago I had a chance to take photos from the company's Condor lift. The platform goes to 170 feet. I just got CS5 and used it to put together this pano from 15 raw files. There's more work left to be done, but it's not bad for a couple of button presses. To bad the wea

Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-10 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
Rob Studdert wrote: > I guess that you have to consider that using a system like this for > landscapes a K-x and a nice 70mm would likely provide better results > than the widest ultra-wide on the largest format camera. I've used a number of 'real' panoramic cameras for years and it's a totally

Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 11/05/2010, John Sessoms wrote: > You can buy a LOT of lenses for 9,000 Euros ... and still have money left > over to travel someplace interesting to use them. I guess that you have to consider that using a system like this for landscapes a K-x and a nice 70mm would likely provide better resu

Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-10 Thread John Sessoms
From: Rob Studdert On 10/05/2010, John Sessoms wrote: > So what can it do that I can't do with an *ist-D and a properly leveled > tripod? Let you push a button and relax whilst it does the hard yards. Yeah, but one of them was 900 Euros and the other was 9,000 Euros. Cost:Benefit ratio ju

Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/05/2010, John Sessoms wrote: > So what can it do that I can't do with an *ist-D and a properly leveled > tripod? Let you push a button and relax whilst it does the hard yards. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook

Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: Ralf R. Radermacher Igor Roshchin wrote: > It's quite expensive... > ... but maybe somebody needs one... > http://www.gigapansystems.com/ Compared to the price of a 'real' digital panoramic camera, 900 USD is a steal. http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/intro.cfm So what can

Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-07 Thread Rob Studdert
On 08/05/2010, Igor Roshchin wrote: > It's quite expensive... > ... but maybe somebody needs one... > http://www.gigapansystems.com/ Finally they have something that will handle a DSLR, not even that expensive compared with a decent manual pano head. http://www.360precision.com/360/index.cfm?pr

Re: For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-07 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
Igor Roshchin wrote: > It's quite expensive... > ... but maybe somebody needs one... > http://www.gigapansystems.com/ Compared to the price of a 'real' digital panoramic camera, 900 USD is a steal. http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/intro.cfm Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG -

For your great panoramas - gigapan

2010-05-07 Thread Igor Roshchin
It's quite expensive... ... but maybe somebody needs one... http://www.gigapansystems.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.