Cylindrical Panorama - Roundshot VR Drive Instruction Manual

3.1 Program Wizard "quality mode" (continued)
angle mode
spherical
cylindrical
manual visual

3.1.1 Cylindrical panorama

cylindrical
Y
°
54
[1.0..180.0]
X
°
180
[1.0..999.9]
Instruction Manual Roundshot VR Drive version 2.03 – April 2012 – © by Seitz Phototechnik AG / Switzerland www.roundshot.ch
Now define in which "angle mode" you would like to create
your panorama:
Cylindrical
Generates a panorama with a vertical angle of less than 180°
using one row or several rows of images (multi-row).
Spherical
Creates a fully spherical panorama with a vertical angle of view
of 180°.
Manual
Allows manual programming of image rows , for example for
gigapixel photography.
Visual
Enables the user to indicate the lower left and upper right
corner of a panorama visually.
Click on "cylindrical" to calculate the rows (elevation, images)
for a cylindrical panorama. Confirm with "next".
Given the focal length of the lens and the size of the camera
sensor the program computes the vertical field of view ("Y") for
one row of images.
Look through the viewfinder to check if this angle of view is
sufficient.
If the vertical angle ("Y") is OK, confirm the entry with "next".
If not, change the vertical field of view to any value between 1
and 180°. If this value is below the vertical field of view, only
one row of images will be captured. If it is above the vertical
field of view, several rows will be created.
As a next step enter the horizontal angle ("X") of the panorama.
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