Dec 20, 2009
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the process of creating multiple exposure panorama images. You mount a camera on a tripod, start on one side of your subject, make an exposure, move the camera slightly to the side, make another exposure, and repeat until you’ve captured the entire image. You then bring the images into the computer and merge them together using Photoshop or some other pano stitching software. Your finished product will be a very nice, high-resolution panoramic image of your subject.
Now let’s take this process to a whole other level. Have you heard of GigaPixel Panoramas? The process is similar to before but now you mount your camera in a motorized head that not only moves the camera left to right but also up and down. You can set the equipment up to take a specified number of images across and down in an overlapping grid pattern. Because of the high volume and resolution of the images, a laptop is used as the storage device instead of memory cards. Specialized software and some major computing power then merge all of the images into a gigantic GigaPixel image. Read More→
Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.
Jan 17, 2010 – Sony’s new CCD CyberShot cameras, the DSC-W370 and DSC-W350 feature a 14MP sensor, innovative Sweep Panorama technology and 720p HD video recording. The W370 has a 7x zoom and a 3” LCD and the W350 has a 4x zoom and 2.7” LCD. The W370 will be available this March for about $230 and the W350 available in January for about $200.
