I'm A GigaPan

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My job at UNT just acquired a Gigapan, exactly like the one that photographed the Obama Inauguration. Basically it is a robotic mount that you place on top of a tripod. Once you activate it it rotates in a 180 or 360 (it just depends on the settings that you set) and snaps hundreds of photos. The process is quite slow, so people or cars that move by are only in focus when the camera snaps the picture. I ran around and stood as still as possible as the camera swung by to get in focus. Once the device was finished shooting the photos, we had to upload the photos and with the aid of a program we were able to smoothly stitch them together to create one really smooth panoramic photo. It turned out really cool...





You can view this panoramic photo larger on the GigaPan website. Also check out the Obama Inauguration GigaPan photo if you haven't already seen it.