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Qtvr

  • 10-04-2005 9:53pm
    #1
    JimiMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭


    Has anybody any experience making QTVR's? I checked out a few here World Wide Panorama
    and it certainly caught my interest.
    I was wondering if you need to be fairly advanced in photography or if it needs expensive equipment?


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  • #2
    SteveFE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭SteveFE


    JimiMac wrote:
    Has anybody any experience making QTVR's? I checked out a few here World Wide Panorama
    and it certainly caught my interest.
    I was wondering if you need to be fairly advanced in photography or if it needs expensive equipment?

    I believe you need a good pan and tilt tripod to make it work properly. Possibly also fisheye lenses for the really wide and high type of shot. There's quite a bit of info at http://www.kekus.com/


  • #3
    DamoRed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭DamoRed


    Pan and tilt tipods are useless. You need a Manfrotto 303SPH head, there are a few 303 models. These rotate around the axis of the lens, not the body. This is vital for accurate joining. Fisheye lenses are not ideal for qtvr either, as the field of view is far too wide with lots of distortion

    http://www.manfrotto.com/product/itemlist.php3?manufid=1&sectionid=11

    http://db.manfrotto.com/303SPH/

    When you click on the above link, go to all links, the how to section is a good basic starter with good info. The links section brings up a few brilliant inspiring sites.

    Damo


  • #4
    SteveFE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭SteveFE


    The Manfrotto heads are essential for close-up work like house interiors but less critical for landscapes with not much foreground, where a bit of parallax error doesn't show.


  • #5
    cheathamlane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭cheathamlane


    Hi there:

    The WorldWide Panorama is a wonderful compendium of QTVR by folks.

    I find specialized VR heads to be indispensible for my work. I don't recommend using your ball-style head for panorama shooting -- keeping all elements level (from camera to heads) will make you go nutty. :)

    I generally shoot with a 17mm lens, but this means I take a lot more shots to complete a panorama than the many folks who use fisheye lenses. My tradeoff is higher resolution (more images = greater res.)

    When I do shoot with a wider or fisheye lens, I find LensFix (from http://www.kekus.com ) indispensible. It's a set of Photoshop plugins that correct for barrel distortion, chromatic aberration, etc.

    I use the Manfrotto 303 head, but have also used heads from http://www.kaidan.com , and have heard good things about the heads from http://www.360precision.com

    --
    The Int'l VR Photography Association ( http://www.ivrpa.org/forum ) has a pretty active forum, open to the public for discussion of all things VR. There's a large number of Pros and hobbyists alike who share war stories, anecdotes and knowledge. (not to drag you away from here, but the IVRPA forum's a good spot for concentrated VR knowledge. :) )

    Cheers,


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