Panorama

Summary:

In this film, FotoTV founder Marc Ludwig visits the Museum for Industrialization in Wuppertal to test the GigaPan robotic device, a tripod-mounted, motorized camera robot that automates the process of creating massive, gigapixel-size panoramas. Beginning with complete theoretical aspects, we learn from Ludwig that the GigaPan is really quite easy and uncomplicated to handle.

Almost any compact digital camera will fit onto the adjustable mounting plate. Moving on to practical examples, and after a short calibration of the manual settings on the digital camera, Ludwig sets up a scene to photograph while discussing the importance of specific settings crucial to shooting panoramas with the GigaPan. The device works by taking many zoomed-in shots of a chosen scene, with each one at a slightly different angle.

These photographs are then stitched together seamlessly by GigaPan’s software, on the computer. In conclusion, GigaPan produces astonishing detail, is amazingly simple to operate, and an overall well-built device that creates photos that are artistically good as well as technically interesting.