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88h88

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I just went for a lookie on youtube, you smash that on your tripod, program in your numbers, click go and yes, it'll take photos for you... Like those sexy 360 panorama setups you sometimes see on sites.

I like how he had to restart it. ;)

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gerald.d

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I don't get it.

Unless you're making those crappy quicktime 360 panorama things you get on wedding venue websites.

They're crappy because they're taken at wedding venues. And typically with 8-15mm lenses.

I'm hoping to use mine at slightly more interesting venues, and with lenses in the 90-300mm range.

Working right now on a possible opportunity at a very exciting event towards the end of the year.

Cross yer fingers for me!

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NecroMorrius

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I think the fact you equate those things with an entirely automatic process with no barrier for entry besides cost says a lot more about you than it does about me. All the gear and no idea springs to mind. For me personally, this is no more passionate photography than a security camera is passionate filmmaking.

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Exactly, its a tool for getting a specific type of shot extremely accurately.

Does it come with the software to stitch the photos together as well, or are you going to be using your own choice of software?

I had some fun on holiday with the inbuilt panorama mode on my Sony a33, actually works quite well! Although the pictures are pretty boring and generic, its just funny that I used to spend ages trying to expose multiple shots just right then stitching them together on the pc, now my camera does a better job in seconds...

....Aaaaanyway, how can I get out of my current funk and get back into taking photos? I have completely lost all motivation!

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Do you always shoot controlling shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance and focus manually?

And develop the film, and then create the print, manually?

Um...Yeah (well, most of the time for focus, always for the others)? And the modern equivalent for the latter two, obviously. But all PP and colour settings etc. since that is more or less my day job.

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I think the fact you equate those things with an entirely automatic process with no barrier for entry besides cost says a lot more about you than it does about me. All the gear and no idea springs to mind. For me personally, this is no more passionate photography than a security camera is passionate filmmaking.

It is practically impossible (trust me - I tried it) to manually take a panorama comprising of more than around 500 shots and have it come out satisfactorily. There is also the problem that it takes a long time to shoot manually, during which time the light will change, things will move about, etc etc. Nonetheless, that didn't stop a museum from wanting to put on permanent display a panorama I shot manually.

Using a tool such as this to automate the process is - in my mind - absolutely no different to using a light meter rather than relying on being able to work out the EV rating in your head and apply basic rules to establish the correct combination of shutter speed, aperture and ISO.

And by the way - I actually do take photos entirely manually, shooting on film, and using no electronic tools whatsoever. Not even a light meter. It's enormous fun, and tremendously rewarding.

You don't "get" why anyone would want to use such a machine, because I guess you have neither the desire nor need to shoot multi-gigapixel panoramas that rely on absolute precision with regards setting nodal points and overlapping images. Nor, I would assume, do you actually have much experience of the kind of problems that one runs into when shooting stuff like this, and the benefits that such a head can bring.

Just as an example - this head will enable me to shoot a 360x60 degree panorama with a 200mm lens on a 1.3x crop body resulting in an 8 gigapixel image created from 900 separate photos. In 8 minutes elapsed time.

I fully appreciate that you neither need, nor probably care, about such a thing.

But to attempt to turn it into some petty little personal dig is out of order.

"All the gear and no idea"?

Fuck off.

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NecroMorrius

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Why do you want to take a panorama of 500 shots? Apart from the fact that there now exists a machine which you can buy to do it for you. What's the use in an 8 gigapixel image beyond being a neat and pointless tech demo to look at for a couple of minutes? It's just something to throw money at, it doesn't say or do anything or mean anything to anybody.

Every week you're buying a new toy but all we ever see are uninspired shots of buildings and the like. You even admitted this in this very thread when I asked you about it! Why not put the toys down for a bit. Creativity comes from limitations.

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Why do you want to take a panorama of 500 shots? Apart from the fact that there now exists a machine which you can buy to do it for you. What's the use in an 8 gigapixel image beyond being a neat and pointless tech demo to look at for a couple of minutes? It's just something to throw money at, it doesn't say or do anything or mean anything to anybody.

Every week you're buying a new toy but all we ever see are uninspired shots of buildings and the like. You even admitted this in this very thread when I asked you about it! Why not put the toys down for a bit. Creativity comes from limitations.

Who the fuck do you think you are to tell me what to shoot?

But hey - I'll make it easy for you and remove the images from the forum, and won't bother sharing any more.

Toodle-pip!

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Nicky

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some of Geralds best photographs have been the ones where he's ditched all the fancypants equipment, notably the sandblasted monochrome flying Statue and the upwards looking butterfly installation. More like these and less buildings please Gerald! ;)

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NecroMorrius

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My point is that if you go back through the last x number of pages, you've bought more toys than you've posted images, we can't go one page in the thread without you buying something new but we never see much in the way of shots, except perhaps when they're used specifically to demonstrate the capabilities of the latest toy. Surprise us! 8)

some of Geralds best photographs have been the ones where he's ditched all the fancypants equipment, notably the sandblasted monochrome flying Statue and the upwards looking butterfly installation. More like these and less buildings please Gerald! ;)

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I'm not trying to be a dick, I like seeing more than test shots and tech demos. It's just the way you come across, I'm sure the reality is very different but we can only go on what we're presented with.

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gerald.d

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some of Geralds best photographs have been the ones where he's ditched all the fancypants equipment, notably the sandblasted monochrome flying Statue and the upwards looking butterfly installation. More like these and less buildings please Gerald! ;)

You get the lot, or you get none. You simple do not get to pick and choose which images I choose to share here.

And from now on, you get none. They've all been removed.

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gerald.d

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My point is that if you go back through the last x number of pages, you've bought more toys than you've posted images, we can't go one page in the thread without you buying something new but we never see much in the way of shots, except perhaps when they're used specifically to demonstrate the capabilities of the latest toy. Surprise us! 8)

Absolute bullshit.

But no longer a problem for you. Enjoy the Google logo.

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