PanoTools:
Re: New monopod panos
hmmsomethingelse 2006-May-26 18:30:55
If you look at the bottom of the page under equipment it says he is
using an agnos mrotatorb
http://tinyurl.com/njuex
a metal grip which grips the barrel of the fc-e9 fisheye lens. They
also do a mrotatora for the older fc-e8 fisheye so have been around
for a while. Ipix used to do similar grips but stopped, possibly out
of fear rough users would break their lens mount, but actually it
doesn't feel as dangerous as you might think.
Roger howard who started this thread is using a similar grip made out
of wood for the sigma 8mm from bophoto.com
http://tinyurl.com/ehqn2
I'm using a grip like the mrotatorb but made out of wood by bophoto
too. I'd rather have the metal clickstopping agnos one but this worked
out a third of the price and is just great as well.
http://www.auat50.dsl.pipex.com/tripod/
The idea is actually catching on again as Jook Leung used the bophoto
grip for a 10.5mm nikon fisheye to take his apple shop panorama
http://panoramas.dk/newspanos/f20-apple-store.html
so perhaps his moment in the sun has arived :) Agnos mutter about
making grips like this for other lens's but have not yet. You do see
some ingenious ones like it for the nikkor 8mm giant lens though
gripping the edge.
The big advantage is your lens is always on the nodal point and
centered which makes life much easier.
--- In #removed#, Kevin Creley <KCreley@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone. I am new to the group and glad to see that we DO talk
about
> panoramas and stuff!
>
> I have never seen the mount that Rick Drew is using in the link that
Mark
> provided. An elegantly simple solution, it seems. Can someone
please tell
> me what it is?
>
> Thanks, and glad to be here!
>
> Kevin Creley
>
>
>
> At 01:12 26.05.2006, you wrote:
> >On May 25, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Roger Howard wrote:
> >
> > > Here is an album with a few panos from that test... don't comment on
> > > my sloppy use of my tripod cap in these cases - traditional caps
> > > don't work nearly as well when the region to cover up isn't
pitch=-90
> > > and I've not yet decided what to do about that!
> >
> >Beautiful and surreal colors (but that's California for ya!). The
> >"over the edge" effect is particularly nice at the bluffs - I have no
> >fear of heights so I never get tired of that perspective...
> >
> >As for the tripod caps: (I just gotta... ;-) ) Maybe a closeup photo
> >of your camera and lens like Rick Drew used here?:
>
><http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp905/html/RichardCDrew.html>http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp905/html/RichardCDrew.html
> >
> >Of course, in your case it would be viewed from the front (and maybe
> >slightly above?). You can then take a remapped version of the rest of
> >the pano and place it over the glass as a "reflection" of the scene.
> >Might actually make it more interesting for people to wonder what
> >kind of lens you have that looks back at itself!
> >
> >-Mark
> >
> >
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