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GigPan Epic Pro - Panoramas made easy! - part 5 of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

by Mike McNamee Published 01/08/2013

The 360Cities' image from the top of the GPO Tower provided some spectacular detail, some of which was eight miles away (this roof garden was two blocks away). A focal length of 800mm was used to this pan. Overall it illustrates the commercial value of these large pans, it made the national headlines for the photogprahers. See http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html

Panning for Welsh Gold

Our next port of call was in the hills of Wales. Our main issue here was the blazing sun of this July which made for uncomfortable hiking and a dreadful, muggy, heat haze on the hills. Despite prior knowledge of this, we headed out anyway so as to reconnaissance the location and also test the problems of getting the gear into place.

A 40-litre mountaineering sack just held the gear which consisted of the Gigapan, 105mm, 24-70mm and 14-24mm Nikkors along with a D700 and MB D10, an electronic cable release, a geared tripod head, food, drink and a very light wind top. The Manfotto tripod does not readily attach to the pack and was eventually carried separately in its case. Now this little lot did not seem much in the hall at home but seemed to grow in weight with every step. Lesson number one was therefore would be to leave the zooms, MB D10 and cable release behind and devise a way of attaching the tripod to the sack (or find a more modest-sized one!).

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