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More Help and Information needed

Pedro Canelas — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:44:35 -0800

Also in Beginner mode and after reading some of the information available from the internet, it is concluded that it is sparse because I can not find the document from beginning to end (VT), the process is not well known (I speak of the group photographers that I know) and thus I have had difficulty in obtaining positive results, in a consistent manner.

Recently outfitted with the help of SKIVR, I use a Nikon D7000 Tokina 10-17mm, mounted on a NN4 with RD16.

Flash and Quicktime 360 tours on Apple iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch

rodedwards — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:26:28 -0700

Hi everyone !

I understand that the new Apple iPad (and iPhone / iPod Touch) do not support 360 Flash based virtual tours. This is a real problem for 360 providers like us.

Does anyone know if the new iPad (or iPhone / iPod Touch) support Apple Quicktime virtual tours ? I don't own any of these items so can't experiment myself.

Canadian Photographers Needed

ProSearchPlus — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:10:11 -0800

Pro Search Plus is looking for experienced photographers to film hotels in Canada. Please contact me at bruce@prosearchplus.com to apply for a position with the North America's largest hotel marketing company.
Regards,
Bruce Watson
President
Pro Search Plus
Website
2012 Products and Services

Virtual Tour Analytics

Doug Aurand — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:24:38 -0800

Has any body else done any work on getting Analytics of their Tours?

I just tried adding the Google Analytics code to a Tourweaver tour and am getting how many times the tour is beeing looked at and, contrary to accepted thinking, a Length of time on the tour. I'm not getting which scenes are being viewed though

Here's a screen capture of the Google Analytics report for the first day

www.vabq.com/ivrpa/GA_TW.jpg

Virtual tours .co domains for sale

arielmch — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:06:08 -0800

Hello everybody!
I've got some .co domains for sale that might be of interest for panorama photographers.

These are:
tourvirtual.co
tour360.co
360tour.co
360cities.co

All of them at $150.-

if you'r interested, contact by PM.

thanks! =)
Ariel.

New Released Notifation ---Easypano Panoweaver 8 has been released!

tourweaver7beta — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:44:50 -0800

Easypano Panoweaver 8 beta has been released with new features such as: Support Aodbe Flash Player 11 play engine, Share on Facebook, Little Planet Panorama, Automatic Little Planet Ceiling and Floor and stitching quality optimized.

More details:http://www.easypano.com/panorama-software-pw8beta.html

Gallery:http://www.easypano.com/panorama-gallery.html

You are welcome to be one of the testers. Please pay attention to the following features.
Your feedbacks and suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Best Virtual Tour Creation Software

rodedwards — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:19:32 -0700

Hi everyone ...

I'm a 360 panoramic photographer who also creates equirectangular images to produce full screen Flash / Quicktime virtual tours .

I'd like to supply hotels etc with the full virtual tour website package so wonder what is the best Virtual Tour Creation software on the market ? Ideally Mac based, but could use Windows on my Intel Mac.

adding voice to .mov files

ravish — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:18:36 -0800

hello Patrick

ravish from india trying very hard to add voice to quicktime pro .mov file.
i dont know why is it not working. i know iam near but cant able to get the out put. iam a 360 virtual tour photographer and want to add voice or music to the qtvr mov file.iam using windows vista.[and movie controller is not allowing quicktime movie controller to change]
can u please help me out on this.

thanks
ravish

For Sale: Kaidan Meridian C60

kkleva — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:37:10 -0700

I have a complete, fully functional Kaidan Meridian C60. This is a complete unit with an extra turntable able to hold up to 300 pounds.

This is a hard to find piece of equipment that retails for over $18,000 plus. I need the extra space in my studio and would be willing to part with it for $5,500 OBO.

If you would like any additional photos or would like to get more information. Please visit:

http://www.kaidan.com/products/mc60.html

How much to charge for a Virtual tour for a Hotel?

alvaroplaza — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:26:39 -0700

I would like to charge a monthly fee for use of the virtual tour
But I would like to hear suggestions:
One time fee?
A year fee?
Small monthly fee?

Anyone seen the new VRstation camera?

TheManBearPig — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:02:56 -0700

This new camera was on show in Washington and appears to do everything at the touch of a single button,
including the unwrapping and tone mapping of images.
Its meant to be the equivalent of a 5 or 8 Mpix camera using a single shot lens.

This would mean that tours would take minutes to create instead of spending time post processing back on the computer.
It certainly looks cool. The website is http://www.VRstation.net

Not sure when its for sale, does anyone know?

Anyone demo the inexpensive E-filming Digital Drive Panorama Base PS-30B?

James Neiss — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:49:50 -0800

A friend of mine went to a New York photo show and got a demo of a chinese mechanical pano head that's selling for $550 at adorama. He's not a pano shooter, so couldn't give any details. Have any of you gotten a chance to demo this?

http://www.adorama.com/CZBEF300.html

This is the distributers page

http://www.howieasianmarket.com/PS30B.htm

I think it looks promising. Too bad the gigapan people don't come out with similar.

Jim Neiss

Convert images (or.mov) to ipx (Ipix) format

Arno — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:54:30 -0700

Hi,

I was wondering if someone can convert quicktime 360 files into iPix (.ipx) format.
I can either deliver a .mov file or deliver .jpg files (cube faces).

The only thing that needs to be done is import the files and convert it to .ipx.

Can anybody help out?

Kind regards,
Arno

The best panoramic head???

sledder — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:53:20 -0800

Hi everybody,

I am just looking for advice/recommendations for panoramic heads. I am a student and I don't have a massive budget's so I am looking for the best and affordable options.

I have had the luxury of using a 360Precision Absolute head a few times but this would be to expensive for me plus I am not so keen that it doesn't have a locking feature on the base.

Any suggestions would be a huge help.

Thanks for your time.

40 reasons why you love tourweaver7

tourweaver7beta — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:13:37 -0800

We'd like to thank for all our friends and beta testers for their hard work in testing Tourweaver7 ,helpful feedbacks ,constructive suggestions and all long time support!
More details : http://www.easypano.com/Virtual-tour-software.html

Download Free trial version and test it :http://www.easypano.com/download-virtual-tour-software.html
1.Support Adobe Flash Player 11 Play engine .
2.Share on Facebook
3.Add 3D object
4.Add Online video (Youtube)
5.Support Google Maps Street Viewer
6.HD AVI virtual tour
7.Multilingual tour
8.Open AS API and JS API

Official Tourweaver7 professional version is released

tourweaver7beta — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:08:58 -0800

Tourweaver7 Official version is released!
What's new in Builder:7.00.111213 ? Download and try it now www.easypano.com/Virtual-tour-software.html

1.Support Adobe Flash Player 11 Play engine .
2.Share on Facebook
3.Add 3D object
4.Add Online video (Youtube)
5.Support Google Maps Street Viewer
6.HD AVI virtual tour
7.Multilingual tour
8.Open AS API and JS API
9.HTML5 tour greatly optimized
10.FLV for Loading Window

click to check 40 reasons why you love Tourweaver7 : www.easypano.com/tw67-comparison.html

Samyang 7.5mm MFT Nomad Panohead

thomash2 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:09:25 -0700

Nomad Panohead for Samyang 7.5mm MFT

Pictured below is the operational first version and a rendering of the second version. It will be available for purchase in the beginning of November after verification of the second version, which has a smaller footprint, is more compact, and can be used with both camera grip up and down.

It is a lightweight and compact fixed tilt panohead with a rotator at 15 degree increments, marks for 4 and 6 divisions, and has free access to both aperture and focus rings.

Estimated price $150 USD

See link for more details.

Best way to do QTVR in a Mac?

Danny73 — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:19:32 -0800

I have a client that needs a QTVR panoramic picture where his clientes can navegate trought the ambient pictures in his website.

I got myself Nodal Ninja 3 and have been doing some tests with PTGui, PTMac and some other softwares more or less sucessfull.
The problem is, I still haven't found a way to make the QTVR pictures so he can upload to his website for the clients.

What software do I need for this job apart from let's say PTgui?

I'm planing to do 360* horizontal and vertical images. That kind where you can put a circle on the tripod area with your logo, contact and Copyright.

'400 Patent -- Latest News and a Milestone

Scott_Witte — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:27:36 -0800

Friends,

We have reached a major milestone in our efforts to get rid of the '400 patent. All the legal work is done for the reexamination request to the US Patent Office. What we still need to wrap this up is money, about $5000 worth.

A couple points I think people will find interesting:

Tourweaver7 Beta is released , weclome to test it !

tourweaver7beta — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:10:29 -0700

Dear friends ,

Tourweaver7 Beta is released .

New features include :
3D Object,Google Street View, Loading video, Gigapixel panorama, Sharing function with friends on Facebook, as well as more features in HTML5 tour for iPhone & iPad.

Tourweaver7 beta download !

What new in tourweaver7

Globorama - Lawsuit against the ZKM, state of affairs

carsten_t_rees — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:30:08 -0700

On December 7th, 2009 we have posted on the WWP-list, that we have filed a lawsuit against Mr. Lintermann and against the ZKM with a German court of justice. Our aim was to fight through a precedence for those photographers who did not want to take the risk of a case in court.

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New to VR with so many questions but will start with 2

Gould360 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:14:10 -0700

Hello -

My wife and I are very new to the world of panoramic photography / virtual tour photography but are having a blast so far. We have so many questions and, like anything else, we know that some things just come with time.

That being said, I have a few questions that I would like to pose to those of you who are more experienced.

The first being:

Is it necessary to pay for hosting to an entity such as Real Tour Vision or Voyager International or anyone else for that matter?

Second:

Software to move prospective

rhagg — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:33:15 -0700

I'm just starting to learn about VR and looking for software for use on a Mac that would allow the viewer to move his perspective. Similar to Google maps. This would allow a user to move his perspective within an image of a room for example. Then pan and tilt his view from the new location.

I'm also looking for a way to add hot spots a person can click on to access higher resolution pictures or information. Ideally the same software would allow both.

All ideas are welcome!

Thanks

Is canon fisheye 15mm. f/2.8 lens has better resolution with canon 5D Mark II?

enjygalaxy — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:41:46 -0700

i want to buy canon 5D Mark II with fisheye lens 15mm. f/2.8 and i need to know it's resolution while shooting people?

also what makes me worried that when i shoot 360 degree picture i may need to take more than 2 pictures as i used to take only 2 or 3 pictures with my old kit so does anybody tried to use this lens and make panorama with 2 pictures only?

i want help from anyone as i started to make the order of the camera ad lens....