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Re: Almost my first D70/Sigma 8mm panoramas
Willy Kaemena 2005-Mar-06 12:52:58
Hi Peter,
it is difficult to see your QTVR due to the small size and the
impossibility to download it and to run it in Full Screen.
Willy
On Mar 6, 2005, at 2:48, Peter Sale wrote:
> Ops, I meant www.petersale.com/temp_stuff/LR_USM3_SH3_5000W.mov
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> Peter
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> Peter Sale wrote:
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> My Sigma 8mm arrived and I just now finished my first "presentable"
> panorama, in two sizes - small 500k and large 1.2MB. These can be
> viewed by
> clicking on www.petersale.com/temp_stuff/LR_USM3_SH3_3000W.mov and
> www.petersale.com/LR_USM3_SH3_5000W.mov , respectively.
>
> Nikon D70/Sigma 8mm/SB-800 speedlight/F8 - 4 Raw shots (no nadir or
> zenith)/Ptgui/Panocube Plus 5.1/Photoshop CS (PSCS) to process the raw
> images
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> I attempted to correct for Chromatic Aberration R/C and B/Y and
> Vignetting
> while importing my D70 raw images into Photoshop CS. I then saved
> these
> four slightly corrected images as tif files. Next I processed these
> four
> tif files in PTGui and output a full size equirectangular tiff file.
> Then,
> again via PSCS, I adjusted Shadow/Highlights, resized this
> Equirectangular
> file as desired, applied a bit of sharpening and saved different
> versions
> and sizes of equirectangular tif files for eventual conversion to
> Cubic MOV
> files via PanoCube Plus v5.1. For some reason, I found that I often
> had to
> drag the same equirectangular file onto PanoCube Plus v5.1 more than
> once in
> order to create a cubic file. It seemed that PanoCube kept quitting
> prior
> to completely creating the desired cubic.
>
> Yes, I know I'm not supposed to use a flash but I wanted to capture
> the
> extended dynamic range of both the "dark" interior of my living room
> and the
> "bright" exterior view through the windows without attempting to merge
> multiple exposures. Put differently, I did not want to deal with
> more than
> four images.
>
> Please do critique and advise how I might do better in creating these
> QuickTime panoramas. I would like my next cubics to be better than
> this
> "first" one.
>
> Regards/Peter Sale
> Santa Monica, California USA
> www.petersale.com
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Willy Kaemena
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