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Roaming Update

“So… Brian”, you say, “I thought you said you were going to be updating this blog more frequently… what gives?!?”

Yes, I know! But take a look at my first two bullet points in my New Years Revolutions post:

Baltic Rally 2012!
Update this blog… update platform, new design, new features

Not only are we planning another rally, but [...]

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GPS Tracks

I recently picked up a Visiontac GPS data logger, primarily to geotag my photos. But it came with some cool tools which allow me to create maps of my track in Google Earth. If you have the Google Earth browser plugin, you can see these tracks on my Longitude page which will keep [...]

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Carbon Offset Comparison

I was just looking @ the impact of our upcoming trip to Albuquerque… not only will we save on the cost of the plane tickets, but flying is more than twice as harmful in terms of greenhouse gases.  For two people to fly from Seattle to Albuquerque there is an output of about 2,700 lbs [...]

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Homemade Panohead Test

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Originally uploaded by autarken

I didn’t feel like blowing hundred$$$ on a panoramic head for my tripod, so I made one myself with $17 in brackets from Lowes. The VR tests below still need some practice, but you can see the regular pano shots stitch together nicely with no parallax effect. For some reason [...]

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Panoramic VR Test

So I’m trying to figure out how to shoot panoramic VR. I slapped together a home made panoramic head with $17 in parts from Lowes and it looks like my panoramic stitches are coming out much better… although I kinda skipped past posting the stitched output and jumped ahead to experimenting with the VR [...]

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