http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/ Engadget Comments for GigaPan Epic Pro robotic camera mount shipping in April http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 15th 2010 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/
I want it more! Give it to me oh yes!]]>Mar 15th 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/More! More of that!]]>Mar 15th 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/
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The latter comes with a windows mobile pda which runs an app that gives you crazy amounts of customisation including writing tracking programs in its own programming language.]]>Mar 16th 2010 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 16th 2010 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 15th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 15th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 15th 2010 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/
You could put your camera on this and set it for long exposures at each rotation point.

Or, you could mount the SLR on a telescope and program the guide motor to travel most of the sky, taking exposures as you go.

The difficulty is that the stars appear to move as the Earth rotates so it would be very difficult to shoot the sky over an evening because the stars in your field of view change quickly enough to ruin the panorama.

You would be better off with a few SLRs rigged to take a picture at exactly the same time (perhaps with IR triggering) all pointed in different directions.

Again, it mainly depends on what you want to get out of it. Doing a gigapixel sky panorama is tricky, even for professional scientists!]]>Mar 15th 2010 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 16th 2010 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/
Personally I see very little desire/need for this. For doing simple panoramas why waste $900 when doing them yourself is rather easy and on the off chance you want something with all the extra detail, why would you want to be tied down to their site for hosting it?]]>Mar 15th 2010 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/
Good luck taking a good set of pictures with your lens at maximum focal length over the set of an hour.

Bonus good luck stitching them together.]]>Mar 15th 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/
It sure as hell won't carry over to any print medium or any other website without the gigapan image viewer.]]>Mar 15th 2010 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 15th 2010 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/It should work just great for HDR panos as one of the features mentioned on their website is the ability to take up to 20 images in each location before moving for the next shot. Since most HDR's are created by combining only 3-5 shots, this should work just great.]]>Mar 16th 2010 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/
That's good that it supports HDR work, however, the number of shots needed really depends on the situation at hand, a higher dynamic range in your scene can call for significantly more than three or so exposures. When in doubt, shoot more. I usually bracket nine, just to gather as much data as possible, unless it's obvious that fewer shots are needed, ie, indoors, cloudy days.

My big worry is speed.

Oh, and portability. I hike with my gear a lot, and the QTVR is much easier to haul around than this damn thing.]]>Mar 16th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 16th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/Mar 16th 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://reallyrightstuff.com/rrs/Customkititems.asp?kc=Ult-Pro-OPP-L&eq=
Some manual solutions run into the $1000s]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/gigapan-epic-pro-robotic-camera-mount-shipping-in-april/http://www.xrez.com/blog/gigapan-epic-pro-video-review/]]>Mar 29th 2010 4:09PM