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25-JUL-2010 JimH

Platte River Moonrise

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On the left, we're looking due north, on the right, we're looking due south. In the middle, we're looking east, downstream, down the North Platte River from the Bryan Stock Trail bridge in Casper. This was done using the built-in cheating panorama mode of the camera itself. You just press the button and rotate while it shoots something like 100 frames which it then merges. It's really too easy, but it's kind of fun.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V
1/30s f/3.5 at 4.2mm iso1000 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge31-Jul-2010 17:15
Thanks for the skinny on the camera - pretty neat! - Kelly
Canon Image Challenge29-Jul-2010 22:17
Well...very nice...So that's what the world out there looks like! Thanks, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge29-Jul-2010 20:36
I'm not sure I've seen the commercial, but Sony makes at least two little cameras that have the panorama feature, maybe more. Since the camera will shoot HD video, I think they just shoot what amounts to a bunch of video frames and then stitch them together. This one was shot with the camera in portrait orientation. You can select from four modes - left to right, right to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top. So this was set up for the bottom to top mode with the camera then held oriented vertically.

You just start the "recording" and then move the camera while it shoots the series of frames. It updates what's being recorded to the screen so you can see what you're getting. It would be better done from a tripod, but it does fairly well just hand-held.

I've tried to fool it by not actually rotating, but instead, just moving it horizontally along an object, and you can fool it sometimes, but other times it stops, and tells you you need to move in the proper direction.

What I wanted to do was walk around an object, shooting it from all sides, and have it stitch that, but it usually gags when you try to do that. There may just be too much unresolvable data that doesn't line up the way it expects it to.

I'm not sure if it's just analyzing the individual frames or if it's doing some sort of orientation sensor thing. It does work to spin around on an office chair while shooting :)

I did crop a bit off of the left edge of this image to make things symmetrical with the bridge and walkway. But this is very close to being the full image (reduced in size).

This particular model is advertised as being better in low light than the other, similar model. It does do fairly well for such a tiny sensor. It's not a substitute for a DSLR with a bigger sensor, but it is fun and very small.




Canon Image Challenge29-Jul-2010 17:25
Neat camera Jim.

Was it in portrait orientation?

Was the camera actually in motion while it fired off the shots?

- Kelly
Canon Image Challenge29-Jul-2010 14:03
I was wondering way this wasn't in Eligible until I saw that you used a Sony for it. That's a neat trick, to do it all in camera and very well done at that! My iPhone has a pano app. I will have to try it for this challenge! ~Sharon
Canon Image Challenge29-Jul-2010 12:28
Is this the camera that Taylor Swift is promoting on the boob tube? Paul Alters