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Re: Another introduction
Wim Koornneef 2006-Mar-22 08:28:00
Hello Bj?rn,
53 year sounds to me as Young, especially after reading about your activities.
The main reason I reply to your introduction,
besides to just say "Hello Bj?rn" is to warn you
about the Raynox185Pro lens.
Its is a wonderful lens, sharp, low CA, low
flare, a huge angle (+190 degree useable) and
suited for many purposes but NOT, I repeat NOT
for making VR panos because the lens is not build
like a normal fisheye lens.
The distortion especially in the center is very
hard to correct with any PanoTools based
application.
I bought a Raynox185Pro and I tried it very hard
to get it working on a Panasonic FZ5, I even made
a custom build pano head to support the huge lens
(besides the lens distortions this is the only
negative issue of this fine lens) but at the end
I returned it to the vendor.
Definitely not useful.
I also tried the Nikon FC-E9 but although that
lens is a"normal" fisheye and working as expected
it is not half as crispy as the Raynox185 Pro. So
I also returned that lens as well.
I am now very happy working with a Sigma8 lens on
a DSLR camera. My advice, if you want to buy a
fisheye adapter lens, is to buy a Raynox180 full
frame fisheye. This lens is well suited for
making VR panos (6 round+1 up+1 down). You know
that Stitcher don't work with short fisheye
lenses ? You have to use a PanoTools based
application but the results will be fine.
I hope to see your work soon, best regards, Wim.
>Hi,
>I'm also new here, 53 years old (or was that young? ;) from Kristiansand,
>Norway, and I just posted my first wwp-pano - Four borders.
>I mainly work in 3D, where I have made several virtual exhibitions and other
>projects where heavily hotspotted panoramas has been a major part.
>Recently I have started to take a lot of 360x180
>panoramas, partly for dun, but
>also to extend my bag-of-tools, and to combine them with 3D for interactive
>solutions.
>I use an Olympus C-5060WZ with the 0.7 wide angle lens which gives me a 35mm
>eqv focal length of 18mm, and yesterday I also bought a C-7070WZ which can use
>the same lens. I will also probably buy a Raynox DCR-CF185PRO one of these
>days.
>So far I have been using a monopod with no panohead, and I usually take 2 rows
>x 6 shots with the camera at landscape position, + zenith and nadir.I usually
>end up up with from 15 to 20 images for a full pano.
>I have been using Stitcher for years (now at
>v4), but am now using mainly PTgui
>and Hugin, and Enblend and Smartblend.
>
>-- #removed# // Bj?rn K?re Nilssen
><http://bknilssen.no/>http://bknilssen.no/
> Kristiansand, Norway
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