Shot with Canon 40D, Promote Control, GiaPan Epic Pro, 400mm lens and 40+ hrs of stitching in PT Gui. If you zoom in on Mount Athabasca's lower Glacier area you'll find two ascending climbers. I took everything on this trip, including a second tripod and Canon 30D plus a go pro. Scrambled the cliffs behind the Columbia Icefield Center.
Les is probably not able to communicate today as he's out in the wilderness as far as I know... All this gear is WAY too much for me (then again I haul a crap-ton of lighting gear to places I shouldn't).
I believe Les tested a Gigapan a few times but was not at all satisfied with its stability in the field or something like that. He ultimately settled on a bunch of stuff from RRS. He can elaborate on his thoughts when he gets back on the internet.
Curious... how many frames did you end up stitching?
~350-400; did 3 brackets with each frame to get the best exposure for the shifty lightning. Had to create control points for a lot of crevasses in the various glaciers and clouds. I have not done a pano as big since. Don’t have the time; don’t have the funds for more expensive robotic heads either; the ones that create the metadata so the software knows right where to place the image.
Have you considered an 'under the seat' bag for the extra 3lbs? Obviously, that doesn't change the amount of time for setup in the field but if you had a photographer as part of your group that had brought his/her pano gear, would you have given him/her the time to setup or would you have told them that wasn't allowed. My guess is you would give him the time. If you or your customer didn't abuse the privilege of the extra time at every location, you both win.
Good question; I was doing this stuff when GigaPan was a thing.
A shot from Wilcox Pass along the Icefields Parkway in 2013:
https://www.gigapan.com/galleries/10658/gigapans/133885
Shot with Canon 40D, Promote Control, GiaPan Epic Pro, 400mm lens and 40+ hrs of stitching in PT Gui. If you zoom in on Mount Athabasca's lower Glacier area you'll find two ascending climbers. I took everything on this trip, including a second tripod and Canon 30D plus a go pro. Scrambled the cliffs behind the Columbia Icefield Center.
Les is probably not able to communicate today as he's out in the wilderness as far as I know... All this gear is WAY too much for me (then again I haul a crap-ton of lighting gear to places I shouldn't).
I believe Les tested a Gigapan a few times but was not at all satisfied with its stability in the field or something like that. He ultimately settled on a bunch of stuff from RRS. He can elaborate on his thoughts when he gets back on the internet.
Curious... how many frames did you end up stitching?
~350-400; did 3 brackets with each frame to get the best exposure for the shifty lightning. Had to create control points for a lot of crevasses in the various glaciers and clouds. I have not done a pano as big since. Don’t have the time; don’t have the funds for more expensive robotic heads either; the ones that create the metadata so the software knows right where to place the image.
Have you considered an 'under the seat' bag for the extra 3lbs? Obviously, that doesn't change the amount of time for setup in the field but if you had a photographer as part of your group that had brought his/her pano gear, would you have given him/her the time to setup or would you have told them that wasn't allowed. My guess is you would give him the time. If you or your customer didn't abuse the privilege of the extra time at every location, you both win.