QTVR panoramas created by R.Kishimoto, webmaster of http://www.ksmt.com
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Japanese traditional and modern scenery in 360 degree QTVR
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2005.11.22 Shin-Yokohama on a mirror
Fullscreen QTVR 2.1MB Canon Powershot 75A (3.2M pixel)
I was really surprised about PTGui 5.0 ppower of "Generate Control
Points...". I took 40 pictures using Powershot and PTGui 5.0 produced
perfect stitched image for QTVR automatically ! I didn't add any control
points at all.
Relfex Korelle & Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:2.8 f=8cm US$80
GOERZ TENAX & GOERZ DOGMAR 1:4.5 F=10cm US$40
Those lenses can be used with Canon EOS10D through hand-made bellows
2005.11.5 Chrysanthemum and Cosmos at Ofuna Flower center
Fullscreen QTVR 1.5MB Contest of Chrysanthemum
Fullscreen QTVR 2.0MB Cosmos
FUJINON W 1:5.6/150mm + EOS10D + handmade bellows
I'm using old lenses (4x5inch/6x9cm) with my handmade bellows and EOD10D.
My handmade bellows is something similar to "Lens Baby", but
I can use any kind of old lenses. It also allows me to tilt lens as much
as the size of image circle of 4x5 inch camera. Those lenses are very small
and light weight.
Old lenses are also cheap because not many prople use large format cameras
today.
Xenar f3.8 F=10.5cm + EOS10D + handmade bellows
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2005.10.29 Fukuoka Tenjin
Fullscreen QTVR 1.9MB Fukuoka Tenjin Twilight
Fullscreen QTVR 1.8MB Acros Fukuoka building covered by trees
Old Tessar 135mm lens with tilt gives us soft and good images. If I stop
the lens down, it'll give us sharp images.
YASHICA-YASHINON 1:4.7 f=127mm for POLAROID PATHFINDER LAND CAMERA + EOS10D
+ handmade bellows
Yashinon 127mm with tilt gives us softer images. Probably good for Japanese
wet scenery.
Fujinar-E 1:4.5 f=105mm + EOS10D + handmade bellows
Old Fujinar-E enlarge lens gives us sharp image. The used lens costs only
$5. You can also tilt.
2005.10.23 Tokyo Motor Show at Makuhari
1.5MB Fullscreen QTVR
Probably, it's your image of Tokyo Motor Show. Sorry, no cars in the picture.
Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 1:5.6/135 + EOS10D samples at Tokyo Motor Show
2005.10.9 FLEET WEEK SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA
1.7MB Fullscreen QTVR
Lunch and Parade
1.7MB Fullscreen QTVR
Fleet Week Air Show from a pier
1.4MB Full screen QTVR
Blue Angels Angels demonstration at San Feancisco bay
Portrait of SAN FRANCISCO city
(still pictures) EOS 10D + Mamiya Sekor 100mm F3.5 + handmade EOS mount
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2005.10.1 Hyuga-Yakushi temple, Isehara Kanagawa
1.9MB Hyuga-Yakushi is a old wooden temple with a thatched roof.
1.6MB Cluster-amaryllis and rice field around Hyuga-Yakushi.
1.5MB Cluster-amaryllis closeup
Still pictures of Cluster-amaryllis. EOS 10D + Mamiya-Sekor 100mm F3.5
(Handmade EOS mount)
2.0MB Tsujido Beach 10D+Sigma8mm
Dome restaurant on Tsujido Beach, Summer only.
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2005.8.6
Enoshima beach. I bought a new "Canon Wireless Controller LC-5 Set"
for pole panorama. It's handy because no cable needed. It works fine for
5m distance even on a sunny summer day.
1.0MB Enoshima east beach. 10D+Sigma8mm.
1.0MB Enoshima west beach. 10D+Sigma8mm
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2005.7.27 Shinagawa Intercity
My office is located in Shinagawa intercity.
1.4MB 10D+Sigma8mm, After a typhoon was gone, clear sunny sky only two
days at Tokyo. Mostly cloudy days this summer.
1.2MB 10D+Sigma8mm, Twilight at Konan exit of Shinagawa station.
1.0MB 10D+Sigma8mm, A tower at Enoshima yacht harbor
2005.7.1 ESEC (Embedded Systems Expo & Conference in Tokyo)
An electronics show at Tokyo Big Sight. Our company will participate the show next year. You can see how good the show would be next year, though a little too idealized
.
Fullscreen 1.6MB ESEC at Tokyo Big Sight. Handheld.
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2005.6.22 USA business trip report
Design Automation Conference (DAC) at Anaheim USA.
Maze
1.5MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100, F5.6, 1/500
You can get out from maze easily viewing from sky.
Overview of Nagakubo park
1.2MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100, F5.6, 1/750
Graden plant market
1.5MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100, F4.0, 1/1000
You can count the number of visitors easily from the sky. If you send a
QTVR as a business report to your boss, you should be carefull.
Exhibition of airplane and helicopter, no acrobatics
1.2MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100, F5.6, 1/750 handheld
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2005.5.7 After the rain
1.6MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO400, F6.7, 1/350 handheld
Where ? You can find the answer in the QTVR.
A dogwood
2.4MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO200, F8.0, 1/250 Monopod x 2 + handheld
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2005.5.4 Free climbing at Mt. Makuyama (Yugawara, Kanagawa)
2.3MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO200, F8.0, 1/250
It was a sunny day today, good for rock climbing photograph.
Mt. Makuyama from Makuyama park
2.3MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO200, F5.6, 1/350
The season of fresh green.
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2005.5.3 carp streamers
1.9MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100, F6.7, 1/500 handheld
May 5 is a national holiday of Japan to celebrate 5-years-old boys with carp streamers.
2005.5.2 Shibuya
1.5MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100, F4.0, 1/350 handheld
Sorry, no new ideas.
2005.4.30 Wisteria
2MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO400, F6.7, 1/125 handheld
Wisteria in full bloom at a small park.
2005.4.29 Stitching old panorama
1.1MB 2004.4.25 Canon PowerShotA75+WC-DC52 ISO100, F5.0, 1/25 handheld
A Japan style cafe in Enoshima island serves great green tea and sweet
stuff. Wide converter WC-DC52 produces gorgeous flare. It's sometimes good
for panorama as an accent of the sun.
1.5MB 2004.6.18 10D+EF17-40F4L ISO400, F6.7, 1/90 tripod
Butterflyies in Tama Zoo glasshouse. Such a lot of butterflies are flying
around me.
Tulip
1.3MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100 F8.0 1/18 handheld
Tulip at a small park 11AM. Tulip around 7cm from the lens. Sigma 8mm fisheye
can produce good picture even such a short distance.
double cherry blossoms
1.7MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO200 F8.0 1/250 monopod x 2
Doubel cherry blossoms blooms two weeks after the most common cherry blossom
of Japan, Somei-Yoshino.
Enoshima Lighthouse
1.5MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO200, F6.7, 1/500 handheld
Enoshima Lighthouse is a symbol tower of Enoshima. The new tower was built
a few years ago. We can use stair stairway for going down.
Shibazakura flower
2.1MB 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100, F8.0 1/180 handheld
I don't know english name of the flower. We call it Shibazakura in Japan.
Rosebay flowers of Enoshima
2.2MB 2005.4.17 10D+Sigma8mm ISO200, F8.0 1/180 handheld
Rosebay flower in tropical atmosphere of Enoshima
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2005.4.9 cherry blossoms of Funa-Jizo park
2.6MB Cherry blossoms are in full bloom at a small park.
10D+Sigma8mm ISO100 F8.0 1/250 monopod x 2
2005.4.8 Yokohama night view
2.1MB Cherry blossoms and buildings at Minato-Mirai of Yokohama.
10D+Sigma8mm ISO100 F5.6 2sec tripod
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2005.4.3 Tokyo Dome baseball stadium
1.7MB Tokyo Giants vs. Hiroshima Carp. A Professional baseball game at
Tokyo Dome.
10D+Sigma8mm ISO800, F4.0 1/60 handheld
2005.4.2 field horsetail
1.8MB A mouse looked around him to see if anybosy was watching from behind
field horsetail.
10D+Sigma8mm ISO200, F11, 1/500 handheld
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2005.3.26 White magnolia and Sunset Mt.Fuji
2.5MB If you were a bird, the tree should look like this.
10D+Sigma8mm ISO200, F6.7, 1/1000 handheld a tripod, QTVR
1.7MB Do you remember you climed up a magnolia tree in early spring ?
10D+Sigma8mm ISO100, F8.0 1/250 handheld a tripod, QTVR
Sunset on top of Mt. Fuji. 300x speed.
10D+EF300F4LIS。ISO100 F4.0 1/500 JavaScript
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2005.3.19 Thin clouds with sun ring
10D+Sigma15mm ISO100 F4.5 1/3000 JavaScript 14 images 720x480
The ring was not visible to my naked eye. Underexposure made the ring visible
to my digital camera.
2005.3.13 Snow cloud from Enoshima
10D+Sigma15mm ISO100 F8.0 1/500 JavaScript 39 images 600x400
Dark cloud brought snow to Enoshima island. Black dots are either snow
or bird.
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2005.3.6 Yokohama Sankei en Park and Motomachi street
1.0MB Ume tree in Sankei-en park. (Sigma8mm, ISO200 F8.0 1/500 Handheld)
The Ume tree was good for panorama because many tiny things similar distance
from me were packed in a small space. However, I couldn't escape from Fisheye
lens.
0.9MB By the fireside in a old traditional Japanese house.
(Sigma8mm ISO1600 F4.0 1/30 Handheld)
Inside traditional Japanese house is very dark. ISO1600 of Canon EOS10D
is pretty powerfull and handy to take this kind of pictures.
1.2MB Motomachi street. (Sigma8mm ISO400, F8.0, 1/180)
I felt Black&Weite panorama should be good for Motomachi street, mixed
modern and traditional shoping street of Yokohama.
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2005.2.27 A dog in Shibuya
1.4MB A dog is watching Shibuya city (Sigma8mm, ISO200 F5.6 1/500)
1.2MB Sunday Afternoon, Shibuya station (Sigma8mm, ISO200, F5.6, 1/500)
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2005.2.12 Spring has come - Ume & Kawazu-sakura
1.3MB Ume tree blooming at Oba-joshi park
EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO100 F5.6 1/250 handleld 5+1(top) images handheld
2.2MB Kawazu-sakura cherry blossom blooming at Matsuda town
EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO200 F4.5 1/90 5+2(top&bottom) images handheld
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2005.1.30 Ofuna Flower Center
Water Lily
1.2MB EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO400 F4.5 1/90 handheld
Imagine you ware a dragonfly above water lily flowers.
Cyclamen
1.0MB EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO400 F4.5 1/45 handheld
Imagine you were a honey bee towards cyclamen flower.
Shidare Ume Tree
1.4MB EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO100 F6.7 1/125 monopod
From inside of a Shidare Ume tree in a park.
0.9MB A bar in Tokyo Tower: EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO1600 F4.0 1/4 handheld
The first floor of Main Observatory.
0.9MB An old street EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO800 F4.0 1/20 handheld
Illuminations by the entranse of Tokyo Tower.
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2005.1.4 Ohmi-Hachiman city
1.3MB An old street EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO200 F4.0 1/1000 handheld
Ohmi-Hachiman is an old city many famous merchant was born. They actually did their business at other cities all around Japan. They kept the city quiet and clean.
1.1MB A Japanese restaurant EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO1600 F4.0 1/10 handheld
Waiting for Zenzai (rice cake with sweet bean sauce) in a Japanese restaurant.
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2005.01.01 Sunset at local station
To celebrate new year, most of Japanese people visit shrine or temple.
My family visited Samukawa shrine by train. The bright colors of sunset
from a local train station encouraged us.
0.9MB EOS10D SIGMA8mm ISO200 F4.0 1/90
Edited by Photoshop Elements 2
2004.11.23 Kamakura
0.8MB Kentyou-ji temple. 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100 F5.6 1/60 handheld.
Kentyouji is oen of the biggest temple in Kamakura. We can see the gardens
from passways.
1.0MB Tsurugaoka-Hachiman-gu shrine. 10D+Sigma8mm ISO100 F4.5 1/180 handheld.
753 (Shichi-go-san) is for 7 and 3 years old girls and 5 years old boys
to be celebrated in November. Tsurugaoka-Hachiman-gu shrine is one of the
most famous shrine for 753.
1.8MB Kinkaku-ji Temple (ISO400 F6.7 1/180)
The most famous Golden Kinkakuji Temple through yellow and red maple leaved.
1.0MB Kiyomizu-dera Temple (ISO3200 F4.0 1/2)
Kiyomizu-dera at night on top of colorful leaves and under search
light. Many visitors in season because a picture from here are often used
in TV to represent autumn of Kyoto.
1.4MB Ginkaku-ji Temple (ISO400 F5.6 1/250)
View from garden hill. Quiet Ginkaku-ji temple in morning light through yellow leaves
1.9MB JoeJackKo-ji Temple (ISO400 F6.7 1/60)
Many great temples in Sagano area. Many visitors in the natural gardens
of JoeJackKo-ji in this season, though JoeJackKo-ji stand for always-quiet-light
temple.
1.1MB Kodai-ji Temple (ISO1600 F4.0 0.7)
A pioneer of lighting night gardens. Excellent technique.
1.9MB Ryuan-ji Temple (ISO100 F4.0 1/45)
Ryuan-ji has famous white sand garden. Colorful maple leaves are also great which fully covers a stairway up to the temple.
Eikando Temple (ISO200 F4.5 1/90)
They call Eikando of maple leaves. Colorful leavers everywhare in the big
garden. Long passageway gives you many types of great views.
1.5MB Nanzen-ji Temple (ISO200 F4.5 1/250)
Three sisters and three babies in cart ? No, five images were taken by turining a camera clockwise.
0.8MB Gion (ISO400 F4.0 1/60)
Famous traditional street of Kyoto.
1.2MB Kyoto Station (ISO200 F4.0 1/30)
Modern and new Kyoto station was built a few years ago. You can see some
ladies in Kimono and a Christmas tree.
1.0MB Kitano-Tenman-gu Shrine (ISO100 F5.6 1/180)
Students are buying "Omamori" praying for fortune of their entrance
examination.
1.3MB Garden of the house I was born (ISO200 F5.6 1/125)
A house and garden of my parents near Kyoto.
0.6MB (10D+Sigma8mm ISO 400 F4.0 1/180 handheld)
0.6MB (10D+Sigma8mm ISO 400 F4.0 1/45 handheld)
A cold front suddenly brought a great red sky. I run to the top of a small
hill across a street where I can see Mt. Fuji.
Message from ksmt.com : Take three or five picture or photography ( hemisphare
) using Circular fisheye lens, digital SLR CANON EOS 10D plus SIGMA 8mm
F4 or a compact camera NIKON Coolpix 990 plus FC-E8 fish eye converter.
Sigma 15mm F2.8 diagonal fisheye lens is handu for both Cubic VR and Macro.
15cm from film (about 4cm from the lens) is pretty powerfull for close
up or macro pictures. Normal ( rectangular ) images taken using SIGMA 12-24mm
or CANON EF 17-40mm or TS-E 24mm ( shift rise or fall ) or Power Shot A75
plus 0.7x wide converter or IXY digital or Sony Handycam can also be used.
Tripod or monopod with panorama head are sometimes used for horizontal
( perpendicular axis ) rotation , but hand held is often good enough. Be
sure you use manual exposure and shutter speed and manual white balance
and carefully choose the best exposure. Also turning camera around nodal
point ( end of lens ) is important. Check and manage the pictures ( RAW
and JPEG ) using EosViewer.
Synthesize equirectabgular or clindical image from multiple hemispheric
images ( hemistopher ). Panorama Tools ( PTStitcher ) plus PTGui are used
to crop, optimize Yaw Pitch Roll and FOV ( Optimizer ) using user defined
control points. A Photoshop database ( .psd ) file with or without feathe
is written for manual retouch through TIF file. Edit the mask layers of
equirectabgular image to get smooth joint of layers, then output 2:1 aspect
ration ( ex. 4000x2000 ) JPEG image. I use Sony VAIO or Fujitsu BIBLO or
IBM Thinkpad with Windows XP operating system.
QuickTime Virtual Reality ( QTVR ) cubic ( spherical ) panorama file (
.mov ) is generated using Panoweaver of Easypano. Convert from equirectabgular
or clindical image to cubic panorama in QTVR format. The cubic panorama
displayed in a viewer which you can control with your mouse to look around
from a single view point of any 360 degree. It's a spherical picture or
virtual reality Photography of panoramic image which gives you afeeling
you are really there in a small file size good for internet. Homepage builder
is used to make html files for my web page http://www.ksmt.com. I often
visit www.panoramas.dk which is a famous web site for full screen panorama
images.
Another handy wey to make panorama is PhotoStitch software from CANON if
you have a CANON camera.
CANON timer remote contoroller TC-80N3 is used as interval timer. You can
take a serires of pictures automatically. Some sample movies taken by EOS10D
using interval timer controller TC-80N3. Pictures taked by interval timer
are showed by Java script at 30x-90x speed. Clouds moves very fast and
it's very interesting.