Panorama Autopano Giga Gopro Mac OS And Linux
(Commercial, no longer be for sale) Kolor will be closing and as of September 14, 2018, Kolor products will When I started this work I was already an experienced stereographer, but my knowledge of panography was limited, as I did not yet know the importance of nodal adjustment. Then, you'll see an icon appear in each individual image.Autopano pro was an integrated panorama stitching software for Windows, Mac OS and Linux by Alexandre Jenny and later Kolor/GoPro which automatically finds and stitches images. When the harmonization automation is activated (Auto Mode), icons appear on each image of the panorama in the panorama editor. The main strength of Autopano Giga / Pro is the possibility to edit color anchors in luminosity, colors or even both at the same time.
A few weeks later I stayed at Brian’s guest house in London, and took pictures all over the city downtown.The London Stereocopic Company asked me to design and build a Robot for the Fuji W3 stereoscopic camera, and it worked correctly, but its post-production system was very slow due to the reduced FOV of its optics, which Autopano read as 40mm, which forced me to write a rather complex robotic capture program, since the robot had to make seven rows…. The (LSC) had a stand in the market place of the congress, so it was easy for me to contact them, and it was exciting to see for the first time, together with Denis Pellerin, a VR 3D 360 photo on the VR OWL. Brian May, was coming to Tenerife to participate in the STARMUS festival, so I attended. (2015).Then something magical happened! I heard that the director of the London Stereoscopic Company (LSC), the astronomer Dr. Sony Nex 5 Twin & LEGO EV1 Robot.
Until we decided that Samsung 2016 didn’t give enough quality, and that’s when Jürgen Schrader helped us. First we imitated the capture of the Insta360, and little by little we looked for a capture that offered the same quality as the capture side by side. This RIG has a rotator and a photographic nut, so it was only necessary to make six double photos to the horizon plus zenit and nadir.But the photographic quality of the Gopro´s was somewhat far from what I needed, so I replaced the cameras with the Sony AZ1, the best miniature photo camera on the market, and this robot was transformed into what would later become NANOMINI a RIG with which I made hundreds of stereopanoramas.An acquaintance and dear photographer discovered me and invited me to meet the panograph community, so I knew that almost everyone uses 8mm lenses, so I decided to research and buy the then new Samsung 2016, an exciting 7mm test camera.“My first project was called “The Broken Egg”, I tried to separate both cameras to use them “side by side” with native “genlock”, but Samsung had already foreseen this case and mounted some flat cables impossible to weld”.I measured the distance between their optics and saw that the nodal misalignment of one entry pupil with respect to the other was 1.8 cm, so it was a stereoscopic camera “back to back”, and I decided to try to make a “rotational” capture, and it worked!The first INSTA 360º just appeared with a configuration of six lenses with which you could make stereoscopic panoramas using the rotational technique, so I made the first rotational panorama taking six photos, but as I had a camera on each side I only had to make three double photos.“Something didn’t work right, the INSTA 360º videos had no stitching/parallax errors while my capture made with a much smaller interaxial distance did, something I didn’t know… So I understood that the VR video software was designed to work with non-nodal captures and that they had a perfect stitch thanks to interpolation and optical flow.By chance, I got in touch with the best film software engineer in the world, who curiously lives here in the Canary Islands Roman Dudek, father of “Jaleo”, a “soft” presented in 1993 for the postproduction of analogue cinema in 35mm, using “Silcon Graphics” computers that at that time cost 250,000 dollars.Thanks to Roman we were able to carry out several tests. So they didn’t listen to me!Thanks to the experience with robotics I continued to evolve the product until its maximum miniaturization. It was perfectly possible to eliminate the accelerometers and program the Gimball as if it were a robot.At that time Gopro and Google were very busy trying to start the “JUMP” and their 16 Gopros…. Thanks to the robotics and extended FOV, I gradually reduced the capture sequence to 8 double photos that were taken in just over half a minute.My proposal was to modify the Gopro Karma “Gimball”.
I can make this statement, because interpolation and “Optical Flow” for photography had never been experienced before.”Now I had to start over! From this point I could work with two different techniques, rotational or parallel and the interaxial distance was no longer a problem, so I went back to work with DSLR´s, but this time with the learned experience.I decided that the use of two-axis robotic systems could be interesting working with 16mm optics, but using 8mm or 10mm the number of photos we had to do, did not compensate for the additional work involved in travelling and running a robot, so I decided to create two-axis manual nodal heads.And finally I equipped them with Fanotec Mecha E1 (Nodal Ninja).From this moment on and after the presentation of the rotational technique in Tokyo with only 8 shots, I started to collaborate with photographers from all over the world who I had met thanks to the IVRPA.
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