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Hanauma Bay

By:Richard Palmer (Apapane) on April 16, 2008
Tags: fofs , beta , hanauma , bay , hawaii

Hanauma Bay from the steps along the north rim: 25 rows x 70 columns. Mahalo nui loa to Randy Sargent for stitching this beast! Banding, again, due to strong trade winds and continuous cloud banks. Too many people to use the "pause" function efficiently, so I just let the body parts accumulate.

Date Taken: April 16, 2008
Date Added: April 16, 2008
Bookmarked: 7 times
Total Views: 39292 views
Gear: Gigapan Beta2 with Canon S5-IS
Snapshots: 37
Size: 5.97 gigapixels
Field of View: degrees wide, degrees high


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June 12, 2008 05:08 Flag as inappropriate

Great image! How did you upload this pano? As far as I know the uploader only works with TIF/LZW files and TIFs are limited to 2GB (4 if you have a proper implementation). A 6GPix image means a 18GB uncompressed file and LZW isn't *that* good at compression afaik. gigapanner@kilgore.demon.co.uk

Posted by Kilgore661
August 17, 2008 15:01 Flag as inappropriate

Wonderful Image! Congrats! My big question is how the sticher can use 1,750 photos without crashing. I tried using the Gigapan stitcher with about 25 photos, each about 5 megs, and it crashed. I was using WinXP SP2 with 1.5GB ram. It would help GREATLY the rest of us if those who have the experience can share the optimal system configuration required to create these wonderful 1GP panoramas! Many thanks... John Murray jmurray6834@yahoo.com

Posted by jmurray
August 17, 2008 16:50 Flag as inappropriate

Hi John, As a fellow gigapan poster without a Gigapan Beta, I find it very annoying that we do not have access to the gigapan forums where this sort of thing is discussed (I guess), and we poor plebs have to resort to using the comments field of someone else's pano to communicate. Illah did give me the url of a forum intended for non-beta gigapanners, but no-one uses it because, er, no-one uses it. I can't really help with your problem. I use XP SP2 with 1.5GB RAM but don't use the gigapan stitcher because of its limited functionality compared to eg, Autopano Pro. When I have used the gigapan stitcher it didn't crash. Not sure how many images but *way* more than 25 (8MPix) - probably 100. APP will handle up to 300 before it becomes unreliable - in my experience that is.

Posted by Kilgore661
August 25, 2008 14:07 Flag as inappropriate

cool shot

Posted by 220posse