From the course: Creating 360-Degree Panoramas and Interactive Tours
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Telephoto lenses for gigapixel images
From the course: Creating 360-Degree Panoramas and Interactive Tours
Telephoto lenses for gigapixel images
- A lot of times, with panoramic photography, it's all about resolution. And what we have here, are telephoto lenses. Ron, why would you use a telephoto lens when shooting a 360? - Because I want to take more, and more, and more photos. - Because you wanna spend all day post-processing, right? - Correct. No, it's to get an enormous final resolution, so you can really zoom into the fine details. - And sometimes for interactive exploration, this works pretty well. You actually did the post-production on a pretty famous gigapixel image, the president's inauguration, right? - [Ron] Right, I did some work on that, when they wanted to take it to print, because there were, naturally, quite a few stitching errors, and where people had moved from place to place, or famously, Aretha Franklin's hat was on someone else's head. So, I was asked by the photographer, there was David Bergman, and he got to shoot the inauguration, and he used one of these gigapan automated systems to capture the entire…
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