One of the most interesting things I saw at WhereCamp earlier in the year was Gigapan. Rich Gibson did an excellent session on how it all works. Essentially “the Gigapan camera is a simple robotic platform for capturing very high-resolution … panoramic images from a standard digital camera.” To do this Gigapan have developed a robotic camera mount that automatically moves the camera to take hundreds of photos for a panorama:
Unfortunately the beta for the camera mount has closed - but I have put my name down for the real thing!
In fact there are some great gigapans of the WhereCamp itself.
This video provides an overview of gigapan.
Rich’s gigapan of Piccadilly Circus is one of my favourites, it gives a real sense of ‘place’ and the associated bustle:
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