I use a plastic 1gallon container lid with 12 stickon
colored dots -- like you can find in the school supplies
section of your favorite store.
The dots are 30 degrees apart. It's real easy
to line up on the dots giving 12 nicely spaced
shots.
AYRTON wrote:
> Roger what a compicated dream ... :-)
> Just make a David Star on a pice of PAPER
> and put on the ground until you learn by trial and error, where are the 60º
> apart ...
> Soon you'll do it without anything at all.
>
> Try it !
>
> AYRTON
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Roger D. Williams <#removed#>
> wrote:
>
>
>>I would like to use my unipod for six-shot panoramas,
>>and I have thought of a way of getting the six shots
>>all evenly spaced around the 360 degrees. I need
>>some kind of help because my guessing of the six
>>positions is not accurate enough for reliable
>>stitching. I can cope with four shots, like I used
>>to use with my full-frame Bessaflex and Peleng 8mm
>>circular fisheye, partly because it's easy to align
>>shots at right angles, and partly because there is
>>plenty of overlap to cope with any errors.
>>
>>If I had any degree of skill in making things with
>>my hands I could make my device--it's simple enough.
>>I open the idea up to the group in the hope that
>>someone might try it, find it worked well, and run
>>one off for me in, er, gratitude for the idea...
>>
>>Well, no harm hoping. And if someone made a
>>commercial product I'd probably buy it. No reason
>>for it to cost much...
>>
>>The idea is to have a triangular pyramidal wedge
>>replace the normal rubber "foot" of my unipod, and
>>to have this poked into a flat disk of wood or
>>metal with a six-pointed Star of David hole cut
>>into it. The triangular foot would only slot into
>>this hole at points precisely 60 degrees apart, and
>>lifting/turning the unipod from one such position
>>to the next should be fast and easy. Well, provided
>>you don't lift the unipod too far away from the
>>disk on the ground and skip an entire position. I
>>don't think there's much dange of that happening,
>>though.
>>
>>The triangular foot would be an equilateral pyramid,
>>of course. And the Star of David hole might have
>>chamfered edges to help guide the pyramidal foot
>>smoothly into the hole. And a non-essential
>>improvement might be some retaining device to keep
>>the unipod from separating from the disk with the
>>hole in it. Oh, and teeth on the lower surface of
>>the disk so that it can dig into soft ground, and
>>or rubber studs on it for floors that are smooth
>>and easily damaged--even a sucker pad for really
>>smooth floors. A much more sophisticated version
>>could have a spring-loaded retaining clip that
>>would allow the unipod to lift-and-drop as it steps
>> from one position to the next. I can envisage this
>>stepping around the circle VERY quickly.
>>
>>Anyone interested in exploring this idea?
>>
>>Roger W.
>>
>>--
>>Work: www.adex-japan.com
>>Play: www.usefilm.com/member/roger
>>
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