These virtual tours have generated so much traffic on the site that it
has gonne over my aloted quota so it wont be availabe at the LHDR site
till it recycles at the end of the month. You can still see the
virtual tour at

www.onlineatlanta.net/pepe/lhdr/virtualdicks

Pepe wrote:
These virtual tours have generated so much traffic on the site that it
has gonne over my aloted quota so it wont be availabe at the LHDR site
till it recycles at the end of the month. You can still see the
virtual tour at www.onlineatlanta.net/pepe/lhdr/virtualdicks

Not to sound cynical, but what is it that these 500 MB virtual tours
accomplish that could not be done with a series of panoramic JPEGs
totalling well under 1 MB?

It's nice to see these eastern rivers, but personally I would prefer
higher-resolution still images.

I gotta believe that this has been filtered out for a lot of folks
Robin

Socemdog

Not to sound cynical, but what is it that these 500 MB virtual tours
accomplish that could not be done with a series of panoramic JPEGs
totalling well under 1 MB?

The panos are "well under 1 MB" they are 500 K as in
KILOBYTES not 500 Mb as in MEGABYTES. I make the panos at 700 pixels
high and show them in a 500 pixel high window to maintain some quality
and size for "screen viewing".
Monitor screens only resolve 72 pixels per inch so anything of higher
res is a waste of bandwidth.

It's nice to see these eastern rivers, but personally I would prefer
higher-resolution still images.

Apples and oranges....................;+D

Different strokes for different folks..............;+D

Besides when you stitch together anything shot from a pivoting camera
on a central axis then make it into a 2D flat image you get beacoup
distortion. That should be evident in the 2D thumbnails in the index
page I posted.

There are only a handfull of veeeery expensive film panoramic
cameras that will shoot 180 deg images "without distortion". If you
would like to become a patron of the arts and buy me one and then also
fund the expense of film/processing/printing and scanning I would be
delighted to post single hi res undistorted 2d 180 deg river images
all day long for your viewing druthers..........;+D

You're preaching to the choir when you're talking single flat images
as I come from the Ansel Adams School of photography and I do plenty
of that. The vast majority of all the river images on my website at
loshombresdelrio.com are all 2d images. This is just something new
in addition to what I have been doing for years. I happen to be having
lots of fun doing the virtual panos and add to it that it is a really
great way to "virtually" experience being there. I am even finding
clients that want this kinda work for their architectural and
commercial spaces.

"The times they are a changing"
Bob Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan)

Regards,

Pepe

I gotta believe that this has been filtered out for a lot of folks
Robin

Socemdog

I kinda supect that also. Specially with all the hightened security
regarding activex and java apps. It also could be a thing of bandwith
with some providers.
Nevertheless I and many other are able to view the panos just fine.

Most of all the 360 stuff I see on the net is shown in tiny 2x3 inch
window or smaller and also highly compressed where the quality of the
images really suffer. I might hafta bite the bullet and downsize my
images if file size is the reason that keeps some folks from viewing
the panos.

I also have the option to make all the panos in Quicktime which
requires that folks have the QT plugin installed. I have found that
everyone including Mac based folks that have the plugin installed have
been able to view the panos just fine. The drawback for me is that the
files for Quicktime are .mov files and I have now way of editing those
once I create them whereas the Qzoom files are JPGs and I can
edit/color correct and manipulate like adding sky in a shot that was
done on a cloudy day.

Pepe wrote:

You're preaching to the choir when you're talking single flat images
as I come from the Ansel Adams School of photography and I do plenty
of that. The vast majority of all the river images on my website at
loshombresdelrio.com are all 2d images. This is just something new
in addition to what I have been doing for years. I happen to be having
lots of fun doing the virtual panos and add to it that it is a really
great way to "virtually" experience being there. I am even finding
clients that want this kinda work for their architectural and
commercial spaces.

Yup. I've heard that realtors use the virtual panos to sell homes.
Haven't been in the market myself for 17 years, so I haven't kept up.
Glad you enjoy doing it. Speaking of oranges and rotten apples...

Whenever a friend gives me some digicam pictures containing a movie,
I cringe. These so-called movies are always really small-screen, have
an awfully intermittent frame rate, and what's worst of all, terrible
digital artifacting. It's OK to make a movie with a real videocamcorder
and maybe someday digicams will reach that level, but they haven't yet.
By that time videocamcorders will be doing HDTV.

Moreover -- these friends take digicam movies IN THE MOST IMPORTANT RAPID!