Colorado Elk Hunt

By:Bill Alberts (logdoggy) on January 31, 2009
Tags: colorado , mancos , durango , hunt. , deer , elk

Menefee Mountain In Southwestern Colorado USA
I hiked up from the highway but the Gigapan shutter plunger fell off in my truck. I ended up pushing the shutter by hand . I had seen alot of deer tracks on the way up and a few to many mountain lion tracks. Toward the end of the shoot I saw a large mule deer buck and was disappointed when I realized that he wasn't going to be in the pan. I got home and was pleasantly surprised to see I had caught some anyway. I must say that that this Gigapanning is great fun. It a new answer to the age old question "Why does a man climb a mountain?"
Happy Hunting

Date Taken: January 31, 2009
Date Added: February 1, 2009
Bookmarked: 2 times
Total Views: 1231 views
Snapshots: 2
Size: 0.59 gigapixels
Field of View: 46.4 degrees wide, 11.3 degrees high
Stitcher Notes: view
GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.3510 (Windows)
Panorama size: 585 megapixels (49112 x 11920 pixels)
Input images: 126 (21 columns by 6 rows)
Field of view: 46.4 degrees wide by 11.3 degrees high (top=1.4, bottom=-9.8)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: FUJIFILM
Camera model: FinePix S1000fd
Image size: 3648x2736 (10.0 megapixels)
Capture time: 2009-01-31 17:12:21 - 2009-01-31 17:29:37
Aperture: f/5 - f/5.6
Exposure time: 0.004 - 0.00833333
ISO: 64 - 400
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 411.7 mm
White balance: Automatic
Exposure mode: Automatic
Horizontal overlap: 31.8 to 45.6 percent
Vertical overlap: 20.4 to 53.5 percent
Computer stats: 1782.98 MB RAM, 2 CPUs
Total time 2:42:36 (1:17 per picture)
Alignment: 37:07, Projection: 12:05, Blending: 1:53:23

		March 6, 2009 14:02	Flag as inappropriate
		Bill, how did you attach your S1000fd to the Gigapan? (I presume the Epic?) Did you build some sort of adapter or did you just lash it up with tie-wraps :-) ? Graham (gtoal@gtoal.com) Posted by gtoal

		March 6, 2009 20:54	Flag as inappropriate
		I modifided my gigapan beta with a thin steel plate. The plate is about 3"x 4" I mounted the plate with 2 screws to the gigapan plate I then drilled a hole about 1 inch back from the existing groove and about 1 and 9/16" from were the plate is attached to servo. I am amazed how well the fuji s1000fd works for gigapanning and wish you luck with yours Posted by logdoggy

		March 6, 2009 21:08	Flag as inappropriate
		I had a feeling it would be something like that. I've been looking around the house for some tinsnips and my childhood Meccano set. :-) If only they had put the actuator servo on the end instead of the front... Thanks. Posted by gtoal

		May 11, 2009 12:12	Flag as inappropriate
		This one looks like a painting! Nice colors, nice light! Posted by ahazlewood

		May 15, 2009 01:17	Flag as inappropriate
		The Elk have managed to elude over 400 viewers. Yes I wiil admit that they are a little blurry. But, let me assure you there are elk in the photo. For those of you that don't know what an elk looks like lets take a look at this gigapan http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5428 Posted by logdoggy