Panoramic photos

Jan 27, 2005 23:31

I tried it, and it was fun. "Armed" with my digital cam and a tripod, I used a lunch break and went to the Friedrichstadtpassagen to take photos of one of the - as I think - most "photogenic" places there - Quartier 207, at the corner Friedrichstrasse/Jägerstrasse.


Well, probably stitching is the most difficult thing to do when making panoramic photos. I used Ulead's "Cool 360" and found a few mistakes only later, when looking at the results in the panorama viewer. But I was amazed that this program allowed to load all those many really big picture files without crashing the computer. :-) (I did not change the picture sizes before, but used the pictures as taken by the cam, because I wanted to get zoomable panoramas, not just a 360 degrees view.)

It turned out to be a problem for me how to present the panoramic photos on my website:

1. Reduced JPGs - OK.
2. A flash version allowing wonderful zooming (by the help of a great - and free! - tool: zoomifyer on
http://www.zoomify.com), but without that fine 360 degrees roundsight.

But I wanted that 360 degrees roundsight. And today I managed to get also the QuickTime movies running on my site. Well, it takes a few seconds oomable quicktime movies to load the panoramic sights in the QuickTime Player on the site, but keeping in mind that both movies oomable quicktime movies are about 2.8 MB each, I am rather pleased to see how quickly the movie appears on the website. Well, I have DSL ...

Panoguide recommended to use files that are not bigger than 100 kB. But I wonder how this is done? I guess such a file would not allow zooming.

Anyway, after these photos I am already dreaming of taking other objects ... :-)
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