GigaPans

A "panoramic" view (15 rows x 66 columns)of Honolulu from the lookout at Pu`u Ualaka`a State Park. The top of Leahi Crater (Diamond Head) is 4 miles away, and the reef runway at HNL (Honolulu International Airport) is about 8 miles away.

A look at Hanauma from the opposite side. I used full zoom plus the Canon 1.5x tele-extender - zoom ~650mm equivalent. I forgot my glasses, so inadvertently used Aperture Priority rather than Manual (the double A I saw looked like an M. :^\
Maybe AutoPanoGiga will soon be able to fix this problem!
This image also shows the auto-focus limits of this point and shoot. I look forward to a DSLR model so I can return to this spot and take a new gigapan with my Olympus E-510. Notice, though, that...

Hanauma Bay from the steps along the north rim: 25 rows x 70 columns. Mahalo nui loa to Randy Sargent for stitching this beast! Banding, again, due to strong trade winds and continuous cloud banks. Too many people to use the "pause" function efficiently, so I just let the body parts accumulate.

A beautiful afternoon at Waikiki. I took the panorama from the Kapiolani Park end of Waikiki at the Kapahulu Pier/breakwater. The view is towards the NorthWest. Lots of water movement and people movement make for many interesting discoveries.

All wired up with noplace to go!

Stitched with AutoPanoGiga v2.6-beta4

Canon S5IS, 8mp
full zoom = 435mm + 1.5 tele-extender = 650 mm equivalent.
1564 frames
stitched with Auto Pano Pro Giga 2.0.3, rendered as APP raw format .kro
This is the first .kro rendered gigapan uploaded to gigapan.org

Kapiolani Park, Waikiki, and much more of Honolulu, from the top of Diamond Head - looking NW.

Another fun macro-pano. Looks like I'll need manual focus at each frame, though. :^(
I knocked over the board before I could try - a big mess. Will make a new face and try it again.

How many plant families can you identify? Hint - 12 - unless I missed any. A few are fairly difficult.
The salt in the salt & pepper hair is garlic granules - would not expect any ID on that one - Alliaceae.
I'll post the rest of the list at the end of the week.

First to name them all get...

This is my first attempt at taking a macropanorama with multiple focal planes. I used the "Last Panorama" function on the GigaPan unit to retake the same field, but only after selecting another focal plane. I then used Helicon Focus software to render each frame, then stitched the panorama from the rendered frames with increased depth of field. This technique needs some work - I didn't get enough overlap between focal planes, so that's one area for improvement. I'll ...