Page 1: Table Of Contents
2. How to make a 360° panorama. 3. How to make a 160° panorama (or the angle of your choice..) 4. How to use the PanoMachine as a turntable. 5. Using intervalometer mode. 6. How to make time-lapse videos with camera motion.
Page 2: Description Of The Panomachine
QTVR is easy. In addition, PanoMachine is much more faster than any human being : it is able to take a 360° panorama is 3 secondes ! Shooting objects for QuickTime object files is as simple than making panoramas.
Page 3 Canon EOS300/350/400D release cable • a infra-red emitter to trigger NikonD50/D70/D80 cameras and Canon EOS300/350D/400D cameras. • a infra-red control unit to program and control the PanoMachine Power source : 6 AA batteries or external power source (7.5 volts – 500mA). Weigth: 1.2 kg (with six AA batteries).
Page 4: How To Make A 360° Panorama
Making a 360° panorama is rather simple but there is several ways to do it : First way is using PANO360° mode : the PanoMachine will turn on 360°, stopping at each position for camera trigger. This works in all cases, even with very slow exposure time.
Page 5 2.1 - PANO360 mode First step is programming of the PanoMachine : you just need to make it one time. Once this is done, you don’t have to do it again since you change your camera or your intentions. The PanoMachine will keep all the settings in memory even if you change batteries.
Page 6 At each position, the camera will be triggered automatically. But if you want to trigger the camera by yourself, it is possible : at each position, the PanoMachine will wait for you and will ask for pressing the OK button on remote control. (See Appendix 1) Nota : Focus can be done by two ways.
Page 7 CR is for Continuous Rotation In this mode, the PanoMachine will trigger the camera at each position but the PanoMachine will not stop at each position : it will rotate and trigger simultaneously. So shooting is made faster than when stopping for each picture.
Page 8: How To Make A 160° Panorama (Or The Angle Of Your Choice
So you will change the number of pictures (Npos option on PanoMachine board) until the angle shown by the screen between parenthesis (it is the angle between two pictures) will be less than the 45° of your lens. Then you will have a overlap between pictures.
Page 9 4 - How to use the PanoMachine as a turntable. The Turntable mode is almost the same than the PANO360° mode the camera and the subject are switched. You will place a object on the rotating head to make it turn while the camera shoot it at each position.
Page 10: Using Intervalometer Mode
6 - Making Time-lapse videos with camera motion . The PanoMachine can be used to shoot automatically a great number of pictures (up to 5000) . So it is easy to create time-lapse videos with these pictures. In addition, as the PanoMachine is capable of moving on very small angle between 2 pictures, you will have the possibility to move your camera during take of view and the result will be a time-lapse video with a smooth camera motion.
Page 11 With a NiMh battery pack of 2700mAh, the PanoMachine will run for about 10 hours. If you want to shoot pictures during more than 10 hours, don’t forgot to connect the PanoMachine to an external power source : a AC/DC power supply for indoor use , or a lead battery and a regulator for outdoor use.
Page 12: What Is The Custom Mode
7 – What is CUSTOM mode ? The CUSTOM mode is the most versatile mode of the PanoMachine: any option can be accessed and modified to the value of your choice. Here are the parameters which can be set by user :...
Page 13 All the parameters of the PanoMachine can be modified when choosing the Custom mode. When going back to another mode, the selected values are kept except the values setted for this new mode. For example, when switching to Pano360 mode, all values are kept except Angle which go back to 360° and NbrPano and NbrShoot which go back to 1.
Page 14 So be careful when shooting with low light conditions or great exposure time. For example: with a exposure time of 2 seconds, selected a 3 seconds value for Tshutter. Copyright Gildas Le Lostec - www.panomachine.com Page 14...
Page 15 PanoMachines. The user must ensure by himself that the camera, the PanoMachine and the tripod are correctly fixed and that the PanoMachine and the system of fixation is in good state, and sufficiently strong and rigid for a safe use.
Page 16: How To Connect Your Camera To The Panomachine
How to connect your camera to the PanoMachine. As the camera connectors are not all the same, you need a cable with the good plug to connect the PanoMachine to your camera. Here are the connectors for most common Canon and Nikon cameras: Canon EOS-300D, EOS350D,400D, Digital Rebel :2.5mm stereo connector...
Page 17 Here is what the DIN plug will look (from inside the plug) when connected to such a cable. Nota : when soldering the Din plug of PanoMachine cable, you will look to the plug from inside : don't forgot that wiring scheme is inverted (the schemes for cameras are views from cable plug).
Page 18 In case of problem : Here are some tricks to solve problems of connection between a camera and a PanoMachine (specialy if you made your PanoMachine cable by yourself and if you confuse right and left ...) Ensure that the PanoMachine cable is ok : Connect the cable to the camera (but not to the PanoMachine).Then, make a contact between ground...
Page 19 (half frame size) Canon EOS300D, 350D, Nikon D50/D70 Vertically Focal length (mm) Overlap Horizontally Focal length (mm) Overlap Full Frame size (24x26) Vertically Focal length (mm) Overlap Horizontally Focal length (mm) Overlap Copyright Gildas Le Lostec - www.panomachine.com Page 19 2008-03-01...
Page 20 13.1 Olympus E300/E500 17.4 13.1 Pentax ITS D/DI/Ds/Ds2 23.5 15.7 Sigma SD10/SD9 20.7 13.8 APS size sensor 22.7 15.1 2/3 inch sensor 1/1.8 inch sensor 1/2.7 inch sensor FujiFilm S2/s3 15.5 Copyright Gildas Le Lostec - www.panomachine.com Page 20 2008-03-01...
Page 21: Remote Control Of The Panomachine
Setting power applied to the motor of PanoMachine. Most of the time, you will not need to care about this. PanoMachine have a AUTO mode for this and it will do a the job for you. But, you could need to choose another value than the one calculated by AUTO mode for special jobs or special cameras: −...
Page 22: Tips And Tricks
: it depends on your stitching software. However, many people prefer fixing exposition values. Focusing can be manual or automatic, but I personally prefer to fix it at a constant distance in case of a pedestrian or a car coming close to the PanoMachine and also because shooting can be faster. •...