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Orchard, Singapore. Christmas 2007. All light up! Above taken outside Paragon Shopping Center where a huge Christmas Tree is erected this year.

Interesting!

http://tinyurl.com/39d78t

Remember to click and scroll around the video to look at who steering the boat and who else’s on the boat.

Timelapse. To see a static 360 one that’s taken during the night. See here. It was raining when this sets of 5 x 360 pano were taken thus the slight movement of the camera/ NN3 and why the sky is totally “washed out” and grey.

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Dolled up with it’s yearly decoration ready for Christmas 2008.

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Millenia Tower waterfalls, high up, a bright crescent moon among the cloudy night sky.

SPI-V testing. Look out for more exciting stuffs with this engine soon…

It may not be as popular (yet!) due to the steep learning curve and many photographers were first a photographers then a computer guy I supppose. I happen to be the other way round and is still an ametuer doing this more as a hobbyist.

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Aimlessly walking around Cityhall area after work on Sat. Got chased away by security guards, it’s common for me already, especially when they see tripod and some weird looking equipment, the Nodal Ninja 3 and the DSLR.

How do you take as little shots as possible? With a super duper wide lens (and a deep pocket in some cases).

Check out the Sunex super wide fisheye lens, Canon (there’s a Nikon variant). $799USD.

Specs:

• Focal length 5.6mm
• Fixed aperture F/5.6, optimized for both indoor and outdoor uses.
• 185° field of view
• Image circle: ~14.5mm
• Fixed focus with a depth of field: ~0.5m to infinity with one pixel blur (Calculate the depth of field for other blur circle).
• Size: ~70mmx90mm (dia x length)
• Weight: ~470g
• Download manual
• Mount: Canon (SuperFisheye on Canon 40D).

At the moment, money can’t buy you the above…it’s out of stock! darn!
Also available is the Coastal Optical super wide fisheye too. Price, a lot more! $4.5kUSD

It reached me earlier than expected. (original post) and got it on 14 Nov 2007.

Here’s the article, comparison and a small review. Enjoy!

Targetted at DSLR users. The 4.5mm, it got me really excited! 180 FOV! 2 shots or 4 shots for a full 360 pano? Could well be possible!

See the specs here, the 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC Circular Fisheye HSM.

This is a great site I found browsing through Flickr which is really taking too much of my time. haha It’s a real good place to waste spend time and learning new things with every click through the groups and photos people has posted.

A real good one is this lighting with multiple strobes article.

The site is here > http://photographyforrealestate.net

IKEA.com has some really cool pano looking effect, mix it with movement and timelapse or rather, time freeze! Enjoy!

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/rooms_ideas/ckl/default.html

Wanna take a 360 pano with a point and shoot camera? Nodal Ninja is, of course, capable of doing just that. See the article here.

We use a Canon Powershot A95 and the Nodal Ninja 3 with a T Adaptor.

A short article comparing the Nodal Ninja 3 and the Panosaurus

Thanks Greg for sending us a demo production piece. The next outing for us will be fixed soon. You’ll get a chance to see how it looks like and how it fair compared to other pano heads you may have.

Check out the article here.