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Re: My first cilindrical panoramas
Serge Maandag (yahoo) 2007-May-05 23:37:00
> With the 10.5 you only need to shoot 4+1+1. 6 is more coverage and also
> more work that you don't need to do.
Sorry Pat, but you'll really need 6+1+1 on a D70.
In portrait mode you'll get some 87 degrees of FoV.
I use the same combo.
I find the easiest way to shoot:
- shoot 6 horizontal images pitched 10 degrees down
- shoot one zenith and one nadir with the camera still mounted on the NN
- lock down the camera in a 45 degrees angle downward
- shift the tripod away from the sun (to avoid shadows) and lean the
tripod over until the camera is more or less in the spot where the other
images were taken. Shoot the free view of the nadir
- convert all images to tiff and add an alpha layer to mask out all pieces
of the NN
- stitch all images automatically except the last one
- extract nadir and patch with last shot
- re-insert nadir
Serge.