{"id":1025,"date":"2013-02-09T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2013-09-05T07:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:50:41","slug":"my-visit-to-gigahq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"My visit to GigaHQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blognosticator<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Friday I ventured out into the world and visited the headquarters of GigaPan, the maker of the motorized camera mount that I have been using for a half-year. GigaPan is based in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

At the GigaPan HQ are the marketing, engineering, manufacturing and web site GigaPeople. The software GigaPeople are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and parts come from a variety of suppliers around the world.<\/p>\n

\"Portland\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is my GigaPan image of the Portland waterfront. The image is made up of 715 individual images, each 60.2 MB in size. You can view the 26 GB version<\/a> of the image at the GigaPan web site.
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I was in Portland for the 65th annual conference of the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts, a scientific and technical trade association. I am on the board of the organization, and I was also acting advisor to the student chapter of TAGA from Cal Poly.<\/p>\n

I took my GigaPan head and my Really RIght Stuff carbon fiber tripod with me to Portland, and while there I made one GigaPan image from the east side of the Willamette River looking back to downtown Portland. This is a 715-frame image that covers slightly more than 180 degrees. Behind me was a freeway fly-over which is not very attractive, so I limited the range of my panorama to leave that out of the photo.<\/p>\n

Portland has eight bridges over the WIllamette River. My photo includes two: the Morrison and the SW Hawthorne. My photo also includes the Portland Fire Department\u2019s waterfront facility and a small boat tied to a public (?) float adjacent to the east shore of the river.<\/p>\n

My plan was to take a nighttime panorama from the same location, but the weather did not cooperate, so I didn\u2019t make that one, preferring to stay indoors for the rest of my evenings in town.<\/p>\n

GigaPan makes three models of their camera mounts, each designed to hold a camera of a certain weight and size. Mine is the biggest of them, the Epic Pro. I have written several blogs about my work with that device; my GigaPan images can be viewed at the company\u2019s web site.<\/p>\n

I was nicely received by the GigaPeople. They hosted my arrival with Elgar\u2019s GigaTrumpet Fanfare (not really) and a welcome mat that said \u201cWelcome GigaBrian!\u201d (not really). I did get a chance to meet most of the GigaPeople, and had a tour of their manufacturing operation (photos not allowed).<\/p>\n

I enjoyed my visit, and look forward to extending my friendship with the folks who make these wonderful camera mounts.<\/p>\n

The Portland waterfront GigaPan image turned out very nicely, and so did the TAGA Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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