Here's an interesting panorama from Obama's inauguration. The photo is a composite of 220 individual shots. This permits great detail when you zoom in.
http://davidbergman.net/Obama.html
Movement of the Canon G10 camera was controlled by a Gigapan Imager robotic camera mount. Here's the Gigapan web site, with links to other panoramas created using their gear.
http://www.gigapan.org/
Price of the Gigapan Imager is $279 today. Gigapan software that stitches the photos into one large panorama is still in development. I think you can get the pre-release version for free when you purchase the Imager.
The Imager is relatively compact, and it is powered by AA cells. So the Imager could easily be taken to remote sites and mounted on a tripod. This version of the Imager is for point-and-shoot cameras like the G10. Gigapan is working on a version for DSLRs, too.
The Gigapan products are the result of research at Carnegie Mellon University, in conjunction with NASA, Google and National Geographic. You can read about the CMU project here
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/overview.html
Chip Haven
http://davidbergman.net/Obama.html
Movement of the Canon G10 camera was controlled by a Gigapan Imager robotic camera mount. Here's the Gigapan web site, with links to other panoramas created using their gear.
http://www.gigapan.org/
Price of the Gigapan Imager is $279 today. Gigapan software that stitches the photos into one large panorama is still in development. I think you can get the pre-release version for free when you purchase the Imager.
The Imager is relatively compact, and it is powered by AA cells. So the Imager could easily be taken to remote sites and mounted on a tripod. This version of the Imager is for point-and-shoot cameras like the G10. Gigapan is working on a version for DSLRs, too.
The Gigapan products are the result of research at Carnegie Mellon University, in conjunction with NASA, Google and National Geographic. You can read about the CMU project here
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/overview.html
Chip Haven
