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obviously best for stills...]]>May 29th 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 31st 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
That said would I get this? No, I'd rather save some money and get a panorama head]]>May 29th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
I couldn't find what the minimum degree of rotation is though, and it doesn't seem like you can use cameras in portrait mode.]]>May 29th 2009 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
Not the friendliest UI to use, however.]]>May 30th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
I know.]]>May 29th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/]]>May 29th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
Looks like I won't be getting a GigaPan Epic 100.]]>May 29th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
should've called it the "GigaPan Epic FAIL 100" ]]>May 29th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
regardless... this contraption is definitely not as useful as it is made out to be.]]>May 29th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
Another issue making these pictures look bad is that panoramas tend not to work so well on days with patchy clouds, as the overall lighting can vary quite a bit in the 12 minutes the exposure takes. This shows up in the dark streak on the right of the first image.

None of these are faults with the GigaPan -- they are operator errors.]]>May 29th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
I knew enough to know that was the case, but not enough to explain it!]]>May 29th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=24202]]>May 29th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/:D]]>May 29th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
I plan on getting the Epic 100 along with a Canon camera that has 20x optical zoom built in.]]>May 29th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
If you into shooting high quality, wide angle shots, $449 + a point and shoot camera sounds like a steal.]]>May 29th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html]]>May 29th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
I shoot hand-held panoramas all time time, and love the sweep and scale they give. I REALLY don't like that I can't zoom in far with them.

Imagine these pictures, with the full, gigapan zoom treatment...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryfter/3485545508/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryfter/3208966536/ (oh yea, and don't shoot a panorama, when using a circular polarizer... oops!) :-)

I would really like to have one of these, just takes money. :-) ]]>May 29th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/
http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=24218&window_height=847&window_width=1267]]>May 29th 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/gigapan-epic-100-hands-on-and-review-panorama-style/May 29th 2009 4:29PM