Tuesday, September 9, 2003

Apple readies QuickTime 6.4, from AppleInsider. No VR features/changes mentioned. 7:00:01 AM

It's not very often you hear of a new spherical panhead, but there's two: Peace River has a new product called the 3Sixty Multi-row Attachment, while Manfrotto has come out with the 303 PLUS SPH 'Multi-Row' Panoramic Tripod Head. Scott Highton relates the following: "Virtual Reality Photography (www.vrphotography.com) has been asked to do a comparison review of the current VR panoramic head models from the three major manufacturers -- Bogen/Manfrotto, Kaidan, and Peace River Studios. This is of interest since most of them have recently updated their models and now feature aligned multi-row shooting capability for cubic and spherical capture. As a part of this process, we'd like to hear from all you current VR head users out there about what features and capabilities are important to you in your use of such heads. We want to hear about things like weight, sturdiness, size, simplicity, flexibility, single vs. multi-row, etc. -- and which of these sorts of features are most important to you. What features you would look for in an ideal VR head? Are there any pet peeves you have about equipment you've used which you'd like to see fixed (you don't have to mention the brand or model publicly if you don't want)? If you could build your own head, what would it be like? What is a reasonable price to pay for an "ideal" head? Finally, for the majority of your work, what lens (focal length) do you use and how many shots do you generally shoot for a 360-degree panorama? Please feel free to post your responses privately to: info@vrphotography.com" 6:30:01 AM

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