Hi Peter. I guess one who has learned to see or hear soon longs to the
other. Perhaps eventually, we'll all learn to empathize and it'll be a
better place ;)
I did a couple of panos many years ago with my Rollie TLR. Digital sure
makes it a lot easier. Love PTGUI.
For most of the mountain stuff I did, nodal points weren't an issue as I
was using long lenses and the distances were pretty huge. I've done a bit
of 360=B0 VR stuff with short lenses and found the Manfrotto pano equipment
to be very good. It's worth taking great pains to get things calibrated
properly. Heh, that shouldn't be a surprise!
k
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Peter Shute <> wrote:
> **
>
>
> I had a very brief play with using the iPhone to relocate a position this
> morning, and it was about 20m out, indicating that recording to the neare=
st
> second wouldn't lose much information. I suspect there would be many case=
s
> where it would do better than that, but I think until the MotionX authors
> add an extra decimal place to the display, I won't trouble myself about i=
t.
> Doesn't seem worth the effort of going with an undesirable format or
> seeking out a different app in order to record precision that's only ther=
e
> sometimes.
>
> I will make a point of recording a waypoint as well to help relocate my
> gear, so that will use the full available precision anyway.
>
> Changing the subject, interesting that you mention panoramic photography,
> Keith. I've been interested in it for years too, although not to anything
> like the extent you seem to have been. I wonder if people who are
> interested in it also tend to be interested in nature recording. They see=
m
> to go together - record the sounds, record the view.
>
> My early attempts at building a rotating film camera were interesting but
> impractical, and were abandoned when the stitching of digital photos beca=
me
> practical. Now I just use the panorama mode on my iPhone, and I get a
> reasonable result. I've also tried a free app called Photosynth, which
> stitches in multiple rows of photos to allow greater vertical coverage,
> although it can mess up the stitching if you aren't careful about rotatin=
g
> about the lens nodal point.
>
>
> Peter Shute
>
--
Keith Smith - Freelance Guitarist & Location Recording
Service<http://www.keithsmith.ca>
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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