Re: Nikon FC-E9 fisheye questions

Subject: Re: Nikon FC-E9 fisheye questions

From: "Russell Cobley - 360 Revolution" <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:22:00 +0100

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Hi Scott,

The FC-E9 is not too bad, but it is very soft, especially near the edges, as well as suffering badly from chromatic aberration - which can of course be reasonably corrected if you shoot RAW. It has a 183 degrees HFOV.

You should take 3 shots with this lens, 120 degrees apart, with the camera oriented in landscape, to get the best result. You can take two shots to create a spherical pano but the result will be inferior to the 3 shot version. I doubt that you will be able to produce full screen QTVR's from this lens unless you attach it to a DSLR, which is not the best option either! Assuming that you have a "prosumer" type digital camera this will also limit the ability to make full screen QTVRs with the FC-E9. You could also consider getting a wide angle converter for your camera and use a multi-row pano head. This set up should give you good full screen QTVR's.

Agnos (http:www.agnos.com) make a camera specific rotators for the FC-E9, to line up the entrance pupil, thus saving you lots of hassle. I have not used one but am aware of photographers who have done so quite successfully. They are not too expensive either.

You could in theory use your existing cylindrical head with the FC-E9 but it does depend upon whether your camera and the lens will fit on it to line up the entrance pupil. What camera/head do you currently have?

Best regards,

Russell

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From: Scott Doenges

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Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:26 PM

Subject: Nikon FC-E9 fisheye questions

Is anyone using the Nikon FC-E9 fisheye lens to make spherical QTVRs?
I'm curious about this fisheye's FOV - is it wide enough that you can
capture a spherical image using a cylindrical/single-row pano head?
If so do you find that there is satisfactory detail at the top and
bottom of the finished QTVR?

I'm still shopping for inexpensive QTVR solutions for my university
department. If we can do it in one row this might be our solution
since we already have a cylindrical head.

thanks,
Scott
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