GigaPan Epic 100 To Suit Larger Point And Shoot Camera

May 30, 2009

gigapan-epic-100-digital-cameraHere’s now information about GigaPan’s Epic 100 which form is rather large. It’s heavy, it’s unwieldy and totally inconvenient to carry around. It’s not like you can put this in your pack, head out for a stroll and hope you see a nice vista. No, you plan to use this device. This camera too large if compare with other camera hand on, but will give best result  of image quality for panorama style. It’s simply too cumbrous to lug around when you may not use it, and the fact that you have to reattach and realign your camera each time you remove it for “normal camera duties” makes this even more unattractive. In other words, you have to really want to take a panorama to make the effort of dragging this thing out. Now, the GigaPan Epic 100 which automated the shooting process, has been made available for commercial sale. GigaPan Epic 100, to suit larger point-and-shoot camera, is also coming and available for a price of $449.

There’s also a very precise way you have to set your camera up before begin to do panorama. If you bother watching Part II of the aforesaid setup video series (it’s exhilarating, trust us), you’d know this otherwise, you may wonder what you’ve done so wrong. Here’s the highlights: camera on, optical zoom maxed, set to manual mode, image quality and resolution maxed. When all that’s in order, you’re finally able to begin setting up a shot. After popping six AA cells in the battery holster and turning the machine on, you’ll see a somewhat intuitive menu system walk you through the process of aligning a capture. We did very much appreciate that it tells you how many vertical and horizontal images you’re about to take so you’ll have a rough idea of how much memory card space you’ll eat up and how long you’ll be waiting around for it to finish.

How about result? I believe you’ll be impressed with how well the software stitched together our images. Without zooming in, almost every single one looked flawless. The biggest knock we have on this whole setup isn’t really the Epic 100’s fault: it’s how it handles moving objects. If you have any object to photo such as humans, animals or other moving objects in your shot at any time during the shooting process, beware if that person / object flinches, you’ll notice it.

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