Hyperbolic Skydive Panorama Pic

[TommyB 0]

To move around in the picture , simply drag the Cursor in the desired direktion ( push right Button for Full Screen )

http://www.yuu-skydive.de/fallschirmsport_hamburg/tandem_pano.html

[The111 1]

Very nice... I'm trying to figure out how that camera works!

www.WingsuitPhotos.com

[freefalljason 0]

This is the same pic and application that is posted on USPA's website here:

http://uspa.org/BecomeaSkydiver/YourFirstJump/CanopyFlight/tabid/123/Default.aspx

They had a short article about it in last month's parachutist describing how it was done. He has some other really cool pics on his website http://www.360bilder.de/e_index.html

Blue Skies,
Jason

[TommyB 0]

another one

http://www.360bilder.de/html/vr_skydiving1.htm

Best view in Flash Mode ( Full screen )

[TommyB 0]

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They had a short article about it in last month's parachutist describing how it was done. He has some other really cool pics on his website http://www.360bilder.de/e_index.html

Who doesn´t know the virtual trips where you can move around in a
picture in all directions just by moving the cursor?
Several DZs present their facilities on their website in this way.
My idea was to create a virtual tour of a canopy ride.
Via a hobby photographer´s website contact was established to an expert
in the field of panoramic photography: Bernd Dohrmann.
After a first meeting it became clear: It should be possible and we give it a try!
However, Bernd had to jump out of an airplane for that, take note that
it was to be only the second jump of his life !
After we found a way to stow his equipment freefall safe the jump was
made in Itzehoe, Germany, on a clear afternoon in September 2008.
At 10 grand Bernd was under an open parachute with his tandem instructor
Andreas Licht and created the world´s first hyperbolic panoramic view during canopy ride.
He was using a digital SLR with 8 mill wide angle lens, mounted on a
collapsible 5 ft one-legged tripod, holding the extended pod straight forward and level.
Now everytime after he turned the pod by 90 degrees he triggered the camera by remote.
A complete series is made up out of 4 photos: straight up, right, straight down, left.
Bernd took a total of six series, everytime changing aperture and shutter because light conditions changed significantly during descent.
He stored the files in the Raw format, to have the best quality material for later manipulation.
After an uneventfull landing he went back home and with the aid of the PTgui software then assembled the frames and erased small imperfections with Adobe Photoshop.
You can find the stunning result and more on www.360bilder.de

[guscabana 0]

In the Obama inaugural address a photographer made a veeeery big panorama.

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=15374

He explain in his blog how he made it:

http://www.DavidBergman.net/blog/

"I made a panoramic image showing the nearly two million people who watched President Obama’s inaugural address. To do so, I clamped a Gigapan Imager to the railing on the north media platform about six feet from my photo position. The Gigapan is a robotic camera mount that allows me to take multiple images and stitch them together, creating a massive image file.

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes."

Super cool device this Gigapan!
http://gigapansystems.com/system-page.html