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About This GigaPan
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Tim Brown
- Explore score
- 96
- Size
- 0.83 Gigapixels
- Views
- 2316
- Date added
- April 22, 2010
- Date taken
- April 20, 2010
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- Galleries
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- Tags
- timescience, timelapse, time, lapse, salt, lake, city, gigavision, university, of, utah
- Description
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Our new Gigavision timelapse camera is online - it shoots a 3.2 gigapixel image every 3-4 hours. Images are uploaded to our automated stitching server at the University of Chicago. Our interactive gigapixel timelapse player and more information about the Gigavision project is here:
www.gigavision.org
Here's a better shot from the camera:
gigapan.org/gigapans/48065/
Stitcher Notes
ToggleMinimizeGigaPan Stitch version 1.0.0805 (Windows)
Panorama size: 827 megapixels (70520 x 11740 pixels)
Input images: 69 (23 columns by 3 rows)
Field of view: 4.0 degrees wide by 0.7 degrees high (top=0.1, bottom=-0.6)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: Canon
Camera model: Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Image size: 4752x3168 (15.1 megapixels)
Capture time: 2010-04-20 12:02:05 - 2010-04-20 12:20:37
Aperture: f/5.6 - f/10
Exposure time: 0.0025 - 0.008
ISO: 100
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 87.3 mm
White balance: Automatic
Exposure mode: Automatic
Horizontal overlap: 35.1 to 43.1 percent
Vertical overlap: 45.9 to 51.7 percent
Computer stats: 1014.17 MB RAM, 2 CPUs
Total time 1:11:35 (1:02 per picture)
Alignment: 3:53, Projection: 3:53, Blending: 1:03:49
(Preview finished in 13:46)
Tim Brown (April 23, 2010, 08:14AM )
Gigapan just made Jim Balog a gigapan fellow so he should be at the conference in the fall. The extreme ice project definitely needs some gigapixel timelapse cameras. I'm currently looking for funding to make our system reliable and robust enough to manage spending the winter on a glacier. The online timelapse players is here: ee.uchicago.edu/gigapan/gigavision
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until ti gets moved to gigavision.org 
Tim Brown (April 23, 2010, 08:09AM )
Yeah the camera is in a 12" security dome. I'll probably use a 16" dome on the next one, currently the lens only c an go to about 135mm before it starts hitting the housing. Would be nice to get the full 250mm out of the lens. The computer and the rest of the system are in a waterproof housing below the camera (see my image stream for a 360 pano with a view of the whole system). And more pics available here: www.flickr.com/photos/timescience& nbsp;
Also,
we'll have an online gigapixel timelapse
player available at www.gigavision.org 
pretty soon. This
system runs on AC power and has Ethernet since the
University's wireless isn't that reliable.
We have another system in the field near Chicago
that has a cellular card and runs on solar. That
system captures a 500mp image every 4 hours and
then uploads a smaller ~80mp version to our
servers via cellular. The semi-live stream from
this will also be at www.gigavision.org 
soon. For cellular you
are mainly limited by the 5GB monthly cap unless
you can get on a University of Government plan
with unlimited data. Curvature: The security dome
is nicer than a box because you can get a 360
degree field of view but you are limited to
shooting straight out and below that because these
housings are designed to sit up high and look down
on objects. So the upshot is that we can't
shoot anything higher on the horizon. Also note
that the black stripe in the image is from a cable
that was in front of the camera, I forgot it was
in there when I uploaded the gigapan. Better shots
will be coming soon.
Jason Buchheim (April 23, 2010, 03:51AM )
Interesting. Is this camera mounted in a weatherproof enclosure? Does it use a wifly card to upload the images or is it tethered? I spoke with the photographer,James Balog, of the Extreme Ice Survey timelapse stuff of the glaciers retreating last year and he said he had heard of a Gigapan but had not bothered to look at the brochure of it sent to him. Bet he will want one of these. As for the curvature, try adding another row or two on the top (sky)- it seems to be a problem with an unequal amount above the horizon compared to below the horizon and the stitcher gets confused. Besides, the sky is interesting in timelapse. Good luck on this project! Where is the timelapse browser???