Below is a chart of what digital camera’s I have owned. It’ revealing in the fact that it almost took until the mid-2000s to actually get a useful somewhat cheap digital camera. My iPhone 3G’s camera can take way better shots than many of these early generation cameras.
Taken with the Nikon D5000 and Tamron 18-270mm on a tripod. Image was merged with 2 exposures and manipulated with Photoshop and iPhoto.
Link to Facebook Gallery: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=115686&id=675773015
Link to Qik video: http://qik.com/video/3088877
This site is using the premium virtual server package from GoDaddy.com. It seems to be rather slow compared to a year ago, but I don’t have any metrics to back that up. I think that their virtual load-balancing currently causes severe variability in performance. Here is some data from a recent speed test. Is this good?
Load times for http://michaelmacal.com/blog from http://WebWait.com during non-peak weekend time (Sat @ 8:45pm):
Average: 8.16s. Median: 3.97s. StdDev: 4.935s. From 30 calls.
[1] 6.78s
[2] 4.85s
[3] 7.38s
[4] 3.25s
[5] 8.66s
[6] 10.76s
[7] 6.19s
[8] 11.92s
[9] 20.14s
[10] 24.95s
[11] 10.09s
[12] 7.99s
[13] 3.38s
[14] 3.24s
[15] 7.19s
[16] 13.63s
[17] 3.52s
[18] 4.18s
[19] 3.63s
[20] 4.14s
[21] 5.41s
[22] 4.93s
[23] 14.38s
[24] 4.64s
[25] 3.01s
[26] 7.10s
[27] 3.29s
[28] 4.59s
[29] 5.28s
[30] 3.04s
Pano
Casa Mar Condos, Siesta Key, Florida on 7/3/2009 at 4:50 PM.
Nikon Coolpix S210 with Magnetic Fisheye Lens.
Click here for 360×180 Equirectangular image.
Click here to download Quicktime VR.
Taken with 8 shots horizontal, 1 up, 1 down. Had a real issue aligning bottom photo, major flaws and cleanup in Photoshop.
Pano
East Fork Cabins #6, Greer Arizona on 9/7/2009 at 4:36 PM.
Nikon Coolpix S210 with Magnetic Fisheye Lens.
Click here for 360×180 Equirectangular image.
Click here to download Quicktime VR.
Taken with 7 shots horizontal, 2 up, 2 down. Best result so far with slight cleanup in Photoshop.
If you are an iPhone user and would like to see the panoramas from this site in action, you can use either of the means below:
1) You can manually copy the link and paste into it’s URL section of the PangeaVR app.
Link: http://michaelmacal.com/Pano/PangeaVRPortfolio.xml
2) You can search for the Portfolio “Michael Macal’s Amateur Portfolio”.
There are now some local galleries added. They are listed below and currently consist exclusively from samples of my Nikon D5000 at full resolution. They can also be found from the galleries link above.
Gallery Links.
Pano
New York New York Excalibur Bridge, Las Vegas. 7/19/2009 @ 1:35 PM.
Nikon Coolpix S210 with Magnetic Fisheye Lens.
Click here for 360×180 Equirectangular image.
Click here to download Quicktime VR.
Taken with 6 shots horizontal, 1 up, 1 down. Due to moving the camera lens’s center point, there was a noticeable parallax issue that had to be cleaned up in Photoshop.
D5000 Test
Nikon D5000 Video Test. Video, 720P 24f @10mbit, 134.9MB, runtime: 1:51
Camera Tested: Nikon D5000 DSLR + Tamron AF 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Aspherical IF Macro Zoom Lens.
Lens Settings: AF, VC
Post Processing: iMovie ‘09 with Image Stabilization from 101%-109%.
Pano
Val Vista Lakes, Gilbert AZ.
Nikon Coolpix S210 with Magnetic Fisheye Lens.
Click here for 360×180 Equirectangular image.
Click here to download Quicktime VR.
Taken with 6 shots horizontal, 1 up, 1 down. There was a lot less cleanup in Photoshop but I had a bit of trouble aligning the bottom shot. My brother Geoff is captured down by the dock.
