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Submitted by klausesser on Sun, 2007-07-01 19:12.

Hi!

I´m playing around with spherical panos and saw a wonderful one, shot from a church-tower with the camera held through the window on a boom-arm.
That facinated me and i would like to experiment with those things :-) .
I think i mount my 20D with a Nikon 10,5mm on a L-mount in-axis on top of a boom arm and rotate it by mounting the base of the arm to a Manfrotto Click-Pan-head . .
that´s a good idea?

Does anybody know a boom-arm? I thought about a monopod with a camera-screwhole at the bottom end . .

I guess, it´s a familiar mechanicanism as for car-interiors . . ?

I use AutoPanoPro - should work with that, i guess!?

Does anybody have a good idea? :-)

best, Klaus

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Re: out of a window

Submitted by Doug Aurand on Sat, 2007-07-07 18:02.

Klaus
If I was going to do it...

I have a Nikon Coolpix 5400/FC-E9 set up. With its 190° FOV and full circular fisheye I wouldn't need a Zenith or Nadir shot, so that would simplify the shoot.

I'd have to engineer a way to mount my rotator to the end of a pole.

I'd just put the pole out the window with the camera/lens/rotator in a horizontal orientation rather than the normal vertical position.

Doing a 3 shot fisheye, I'd shoot one fisheye straight down, turn the pole by hand approximately 120° and shoot, then another 120° and shoot again.

The biggest problem I'd have is the wired remote shutter release I use is only 4 ft and I don't know if Nikon makes an extension for it.

PTGui is very forgiving if the rotation isn't precise. I was shooting a 3 fisheye scene of a Kitchen; took the first photo, rotated 2 stops (I use a Manfroto 3414 that doesn't have a 3 stop setting so I just skip a stop on the 6 stop setting), took the second photo and then, not paying attention, I only rotated one stop (60° instead of 120°) and took the last shot.

Neither iPIX Interactive Studio or the RealViz Stitcher Unlimited DS could correctly stitch the 3 shots, but PTGui didn't have any problem at all.

Then you can tilt the axis of the sphere in PTGui as Ian Wood describes in the thread about Vehicle Interior Photography that Ian Wright originated http://ivrpa.org/node/1322

Douglas Aurand
Albuquerque, NM

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