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Hi,

I am looking at buying the 7i. I currently own a olympus C-2100 and there is one feature that is very nice, panorama mode! In this mode the camera locks the white balance so that the different shots can then easily be stiched together with the supplied application.
Is there such a function with the 7i?

thanks
 
You can use a preset white balance rather than auto. There is also a custom white balance but I forget whether it's saved if the camera power saves. You can also lock focus and exposure. But there is nothing called panorama.
Surfer said:
Hi,

I am looking at buying the 7i. I currently own a olympus C-2100 and
there is one feature that is very nice, panorama mode! In this mode
the camera locks the white balance so that the different shots can
then easily be stiched together with the supplied application.
Is there such a function with the 7i?

thanks
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Yes, you'll want to set exposure on manual but some stiching programs do a 'blend' that compensates for these variables in white balance and exposure. My fav is http://www.panoramafactory.com . PF, while slow, is easy to use and does an incredible job. Do you use a Panorama head on a tripod? That's the one thing that will make a huge difference in how your panos turn out.
MartyB said:
MartyB said:
I am looking at buying the 7i. I currently own a olympus C-2100 and
there is one feature that is very nice, panorama mode! In this mode
the camera locks the white balance so that the different shots can
then easily be stiched together with the supplied application.
Is there such a function with the 7i?

thanks
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Great Shot! How many pictures is that panorama composed of?

Does anyone know if there is a good program that works on a mac?

The Olympus Camedia program that I have requires that the cameras has produced a "panorama" photo for it to enable the stiching feature... so with the 7i I will need another program.

Thanks
womasan said:
I got my D7i last week. You can look at my first panorama, it's not
very interesting, it was just a quick try to test some Panorama
software Tools. I made 6 freehand Pictures (manual exposure) and
feed the pictures to Panorama Factory.

Wolfgang

small
http://www.bichon.de/d7/k.html

bigger
http://www.bichon.de/d7/g.html
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I second the approval of PanoramaFactory. It is absolutely brilliant at stictching HANDHELD non uniform overlap angle images. Even adjusts brightness differences if you want and can handle a decent amount of vertical misalignment. It will also do 360 quicktime VR's!

A panorama head does make a difference, but check out these results I got with a 2Mpixel kodak dc3400. All were handheld with rough amoutns of overlap by sight and guessing. Soon will have some with my 7i but only got it last Thursday. I am very confident it will do just as well. These are just a few I've done and I think pretty good given handheld and a point and shoot kodak and a good indication of what you can do with a camera that doesn't have panorama mode. Just get the one that does the best pics!!!









 
sorry if my previous post takes a long time to load? i didn't realise the links would bring it straight here - DOH

guess I'll PREVIEW next time :-O
 
Jeff/UK said:
sorry if my previous post takes a long time to load? i didn't
realise the links would bring it straight here - DOH

guess I'll PREVIEW next time :-O
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That will be a USD 100 fine for doing that, lol!!!!

Btw, I got pixmaker and it works like the software you are having but you could also join both ends together to get a 360 degree effect which created an effect like you inside there. The office photo of yours could be made into that and I am not sure whether you aware of it. Happy taking with your D7i, C U!

--
http://www.pbase.com/clck
 
I've actually got a quicktime VR of the office - way cool
Dman said:
Jeff/UK said:
sorry if my previous post takes a long time to load? i didn't
realise the links would bring it straight here - DOH

guess I'll PREVIEW next time :-O
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That will be a USD 100 fine for doing that, lol!!!!

Btw, I got pixmaker and it works like the software you are having
but you could also join both ends together to get a 360 degree
effect which created an effect like you inside there. The office
photo of yours could be made into that and I am not sure whether
you aware of it. Happy taking with your D7i, C U!

--
http://www.pbase.com/clck
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Hi, Jeff -

How did you do the vertical pans? I also have Panorama Factory and have been happy with it but used Photoshop Elements to make a 2x2 plus 2x2 mini-pan and have not tried anything vertical with Panorama Factory. Did you take the vertical shots and then put them into PanFact rotated on their sides?
Very nice results. Thanks. Jean
Jeff/UK said:
I second the approval of PanoramaFactory. It is absolutely
brilliant at stictching HANDHELD non uniform overlap angle images.
Even adjusts brightness differences if you want and can handle a
decent amount of vertical misalignment. It will also do 360
quicktime VR's!

A panorama head does make a difference, but check out these results
I got with a 2Mpixel kodak dc3400. All were handheld with rough
amoutns of overlap by sight and guessing. Soon will have some with
my 7i but only got it last Thursday. I am very confident it will
do just as well. These are just a few I've done and I think pretty
good given handheld and a point and shoot kodak and a good
indication of what you can do with a camera that doesn't have
panorama mode. Just get the one that does the best pics!!!









Click to expand...
 
Surfer said:
Hi,

I am looking at buying the 7i. I currently own a olympus C-2100 and
there is one feature that is very nice, panorama mode! In this mode
the camera locks the white balance so that the different shots can
then easily be stiched together with the supplied application.
Is there such a function with the 7i?

thanks
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On panorama printing -- from our local, good camera shop, I bought a roll of Epson premium glossy photo paper 4" x 25 feet for about $20 US and rigged a stiff piece of cardboard behind my inkjet printer (Epson 780) to print my panoramas. Worked fine. The camera shop also said they could order panorama paper for me in 13" x 25 ' size, but a roll was $50 and I wasn't up to it yet. - Jean
Jeff/UK said:
Then I thought to myself, why not post a link to the 360VR Jeff -
DOH again. Too much wine?

http://www.nickyandjeff.dsl.pipex.com/panoramas/office360VR.mov
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martin said:
tell me what a Panorama head is and how it works.
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A pano head on a tripod does two things. First, it gives a very accurate alignment of each segment of the panorama and keeps the entire process level to the horizon. And second, it rotates the camera around the lens node to eliminate parallax errors (which show up as ghost images in the overlapping shots).
Here's the pano head I built: http://www.pbase.com/zeondekilowatt/panoramahead
 
Jean

Sorry - I don't follow the question on vertical pans. All these images are horizontal. Keep meaning to try a vertical pan and rotate them to stitch - don't see why it wouldn't work.

Have to say I love making panoramas! Did 15 from my holiday trip last year (that's why I took 500 pics in 2 weeks!)
 
I have made vertical pans in exactly this way, say of waterfalls, and it works great. Shoot the images in landscape from top to bottom of the subject, rotate the images in Image Expert 2000, then stitch with Enroute's Quick Stitch.

Tony
 
Jeff/UK said:
I second the approval of PanoramaFactory. It is absolutely
brilliant at stictching HANDHELD non uniform overlap angle images.
Even adjusts brightness differences if you want and can handle a
decent amount of vertical misalignment. It will also do 360
quicktime VR's!

A panorama head does make a difference, but check out these results
I got with a 2Mpixel kodak dc3400. All were handheld with rough
amoutns of overlap by sight and guessing. Soon will have some with
my 7i but only got it last Thursday. I am very confident it will
do just as well. These are just a few I've done and I think pretty
good given handheld and a point and shoot kodak and a good
indication of what you can do with a camera that doesn't have
panorama mode. Just get the one that does the best pics!!!









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--Jeff love you pans, have you any other Niagara ones, I have just started doing mine but wish I'd taken alot more shots. I've posted some see link below
Pete Vickers

http://www.pbase.com/petevickers/new_england
 
Pete

You've got some nice shots there - I really like the one on page one titled "the new" - I thinks it is great lighting and love the framing of the building.

I have quite a few other panos - I've posted one more of Niagara, one of Shea stadium, and a cool one from our hotel room in NYC.







(how inconsiderate - people moved and scoreboard changed)
Pete Vickers said:
--Jeff love you pans, have you any other Niagara ones, I have just
started doing mine but wish I'd taken alot more shots. I've posted
some see link below
Pete Vickers

http://www.pbase.com/petevickers/new_england
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This may be a stupid question for somebody that knows, but you don't learn if you don't ask.

What is the difference between the pano head type you built, and just a head that rotates?

I know the DiMage 5 film center is not over the mounting screw, so I know I need something to adjust that. But other than that, does it do anything better? Different?
It looks like it does more that just rotate.
David DeGomez said:
martin said:
tell me what a Panorama head is and how it works.
Click to expand...
A pano head on a tripod does two things. First, it gives a very
accurate alignment of each segment of the panorama and keeps the
entire process level to the horizon. And second, it rotates the
camera around the lens node to eliminate parallax errors (which
show up as ghost images in the overlapping shots).
Here's the pano head I built:
http://www.pbase.com/zeondekilowatt/panoramahead
Click to expand...
 
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