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Shinydome sent a 360 degree view of
Torroemore. I like the footprints leading to the spot where the photo was taken, and the grey
tombstone looking things that must be ice fishing shacks. i’m sure we are all thinking the same thing. How great would it be to have a similar 360 degree view in the summer? Is the bass boat steady enough?
I wanted to turn the photo into a Quicktime panorama, but the software to do that, which used to be freeware, is now expensiveware. This site is a gold mine of mountain photos, hiking trails, and those Quicktime panos. Rakkity, how many of those mountains have you climbed?
Matt and his Indiana grandmother.
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Matt and (lean on me) Peter.
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“How many of these mountains have I climbed?” Well, the mountains in http://rockymountainscenery.com/mountainscenery.html
are all pretty easy (you can even drive up Mt. Evans), and I’ve been on all of the Colo. mountains shown.
Those are mighty nice pictures. (I’m glad I could download a viewer for my linux box.) Too bad about the expensiveware, though, since it would be nice to get some 360 panoramas on the blog. How much is it–or should I even ask?
Comment by rakkity — February 23, 2004 @ 11:35 am
$360 or so.
I had a feeling you might know most of those places. And, I found his link to how to create panoramas interesting. Recommends a fifty percent overlap, which is probably twice the lap I use.
Comment by Mike — February 23, 2004 @ 11:58 am
Yeah, I try for maybe 25% to 33% overlap, or thereabouts. The issue is partly keystoning, which can yield the telltale convergence/divergence peaks if a wide-angle lens were used. So shooting at 50mm equivalency is important, and the overlap is a balance of not having to process too many panels, but have enough overlap to be able to do away with distorted corners, and also not miss anything.
Comment by panoramer — February 23, 2004 @ 2:45 pm