GigaLinc: GigaPixel Photography Exhibit
byGigaLinc photography exhibition at the Shangri-La Vancouver. This free showcase is open to the public and will feature large-scale panoramic images captured with the help of the GigaPan apparatus.
Photo by Ronnie Miranda www.gigapixel.com. First game at the renovated BC Place.
The image is made up of 600 photos (30 across by 20 down) stitched together and taken over a 40-minute span. The final hi-res file is 100,127 X 48,377 pixels or 4,843 megapixels.
Ronnie also created this timelapse of the BC Place grand re-opening event. Watch for the roof to open.
What GigaLinc Photography Exhibit.
When Thursday, October 13 to Friday, October 14, 2011 from 10:00am to 6:00pm
Where Shangri-la Hotel Vancouver, Blue Moon Theatre,1128 West Georgia, Vancouver
From the organizers: GigaLinc is an exhibition that allows participants to interactively explore large-scale panoramic images. Gigapixel images (100 times the information captured by a 10 megapixel digital camera) are digitally projected onto a large screen that allows viewers to navigate and explore the image in detail using Kinect-based hand-gestures, zooming in and out of areas of particular interest. Surround-sound adds to the multi-sensory experience. GigaLinc was developed by Samuel Cox for his Master’s degree in Digital Imaging and Photography at the University of Lincoln, UK.
Massive screens will display images captured using GigaPixel technology and the exhibit will include the Stanley Cup Game 7 crowd photo that has millions of online views to date. The instrument itself allows you to attach your camera (Canon, Nikon, Olympus, pocket camera, SLR etc.) and does all the panning work for you.
John Biehler had the chance to play with a GigaPan a few month ago and he took some great panoramic shots of the city from West Vancouver (click below to zoom-in and get the full effect).
John Biehler’s GigaPan in action with his camera.
Photo credit: John Biehler
In honour of this exhibit Ronnie Miranda, CEO of Active Computer Services and Gigapixel.com, is offering up a GigaPan EPIC 100 to one of my readers. This instrument, a $449 value, will help you capture amazing panoramic images with your camera. I gave away a GigaPan last January so if you didn’t win then, here’s how you can try again:
- Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will randomly draw one winner at 10:00am on Wednesday, October 12, 2011. Update The winner is Andrew S!
Related posts: Gigapixel Fairview: Day, Night, Dusk, Gigapixel Time-Lapse of Vancouver, GigaPan Epic Giveaway (now closed), Vancouver Video Collection, Canucks Fan Time-Lapse, Vancouver Time-Lapse Videos.
Related products: GigaPan EPIC 100 Robotic Camera Mount
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Oh how I would LOOOOVE this. Pick me, pick me pleeeease!!! 🙂
These take awesome pictures 🙂 Much better than the camera I have now…Would love to win something like this!!!
I’ve never won any of the contests here: this would seem a good opportunity to break the pattern!
That sounds like it’d be nice to have!
This would be such an awesome instrument to have around VanCity!
My favourite gigapixel image is of Prague: http://www.360cities.net/prague-18-gigapixels
You could take a lot of really cool pics with that camera!
Hey folks, sorry, the GigaPan is not a camera. It’s an instrument to which you attach your camera. I’ll clarify in the post above.
Used to do ipix virtual tour images back in the day. These are so much better!
I’d love to get a chance to take some epic panoramas with this equipment!
If I won a GigaPan EPIC 100 I’d produce a series of images showcasing Vancouver. Coal Harbour, False Creek, Grouse Mountain… maybe even Squamish and Whistler too!!
What better place to use a GigaPan than BC?
Trust me, Miss604 readers, you want one of these GigaPan devices. No matter what type of a photographer you are or what type of camera you have, you will love shooting, processing,and posting these images. In this day of instant gratification with digital photography, gigapixel images are worth the wait. In fact, the wait is half the fun. I’ve had a GigaPan Epic 100 for over a year now and posted hundreds of panoramas all over the web. With an 8 Megapixel Canon Powershot camera I bought in 2005, I have created immersive experiences from everywhere I’ve been in the last year in a half. Those experiences can be found at gigapan.org (GigaView360), Google Earth, Photosynth.net (GigaView), and Bing Maps (just look at Portland, OR, most are mine). Grand Canyon GigaView, my gigapixel virtual tour by river for Google Earth and Bing Maps has been explored by half a million people online (http://gigapanmagazine.org/vol3/issue1/) and subjected my GigaPan robot to tremendous wear, but it keeps on ticking. I’ve dropped it on sandstone, had wind blow down my tripod, and soaked it with water that is too thick with sediment to drink and too thin to plow, but it keeps on ticking. The GigaPan Epic 100 is one tough & versatile device that will open up a whole new world of photography to you. GigaPixel is really a brand new medium and the sooner you get involved the more satisfied you will be. Follow my tweets on the subject @GigaView360.
Many thanks to Ronnie Miranda and Sam Cox for their efforts at bringing this new medium to the people and for the stunning experiences they’ve enabled here with the GigaLinc project. Miss 604, as beat up as my robot is, I’d prefer not to be chosen for a new one. Let someone else starting having as much fun as I have with it. Go, go GigaPixel!
I would love to win one!!
Looks like an amazing camera!
Looking forward to winning this!
Amazing prize!!! Fingers crossed 🙂
I’d love to have one of those.
Ohh! This would be AWESOME!
Sickest contest giveaway to date so far Rebecca!!
Oh. Totally want one of those.
What a great give away….I don’t own a real camera, just the one on my phone. Thanks @miss604
Wow that would be awesome!
oooooooo GigaPan me please!!!! 🙂
Pick me!
I’ve been trying to get more creative with my photography and having a tool like this would be amazing!
This device would be amazing when I travel!!
It would go to such good use! It would make my already good images look even better!
Would love to have on of these cameras!
Oh man that would be so awesome to win! I’m sure my other photog friends would be lining up to try it!
We could put that to work!
Can’t wait to unwrap my new camera 😉
Pick me please!!
I’ve ALWAYS wanted one of these. Pretty sure my life would be complete. I’ll cross my fingers!
I need one of these!
I love taking panoramic photos, and this plus my SLR will be so much better than panos with my iPhone 🙂
This would be a great addition to my camera gear – I’m always struggled with panoramic photos
I would LOVE this opportunity! Imagine how clear the prints would be at any enlargement! WOW!
Please pick me….this is the best offer ever….excited beyond words.
This is seriously cool. I often climb mountains just to take panoramas but this would make the images incredible! I want one soooo bad. Anthony.
What a great prize.
Oh how i wish i had this when i was on Santorini!! it would have been perfect! I guess better late then never right?! Such a great prize! Thanks!
This looks fantastic! Want!
This is a really neat device for taking panoramas. And Vancouver is a great place to use it!
Good contest!
This would be so much fun to use.
That is super rad!
this would be awesome! there’s so many local places i’d love to use this for! =D
this looks amazing! we could take some great panorama pictures of our green roof!
Would love this and see what the students at Emily Carr University of Art + Design would do with it.
That’s so cool. I would like to win!
Totall awesome prize I tried last time and have been tweeting about it ever since!
What a great tool for photography, I’d love it!
My own GigaPan for my birthday!
this device looks amazing! I want one please 🙂
Neat! I should check this exhibit out!
I would love to win…. panorama pictures are great 🙂
Amazing piece of equipment! I would love to win one!
Woooowweeee!
What a nifty tool to have, especially when going on vacation. Would be awesome!
I`d love to to win this!
Great prize. Love to have a Gigapan.
All my husband ever does on vacations is take panoramic shots…nothing of us 😉 he’d love this!!
I’ll take one, thank you. Meanwhile, I’ll keep swiveling my head.
I would love this camera! I would take EPIC shots with it!
Why, I’d love a gigapan! Thanks for asking. 😛
Didn’t win it the last time, fingers crossed for this time giggity giggity yeah
That would be so cool to have!
Wow, what a great prize!
Awesome camera tool!
Cool – pick me! pick me!
I’ve actually recently taken to hiking and bought a camera so I could take pictures. Would love to use this.
I’d love to get better at photography. What an amazing toy!
i wanna win this soooooooooooooooo bad!
ive seen this giveaway before but I didnt win ahhhhhh. Please pick me again this time though!!!!!!!!! I would treat this as my baby!
Very cool!! Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d enjoy using this tool on my photographic explorations of our Province.
I’d love to win one of these for panoramas!
WOW! … would be pretty cool to have something like this to play with! … where better than the great 604 to use this fancy contraption!
I have a friend who is an amazing photographer. I’d give it to her for taking pictures of my kids when they where babies even though she mostly does weddings and for being a great neighbour. her site is http://www.glowphoto.com
or is it .ca/ either way…
This would be an amazing prize
I’d love to give this to my brother. He’s an avid photographer and he would surely make good use of this.
I REALLY RELALY REALLY WANT A SLR!
This would be amazing to win…..what would I try first?
Looks great! I wish the hours of the exhibit were longer. I don’t think I can make it during working hours!
Wow, I just found my the first item on my Christmas wishlist.
those pictures look amazing! Would love to win 😀
It floors me that photographers are embedding the gigapan viewer. It is such an awful way to present your great work. KRPano and Photosynth are infinitely better – please, please let people experience these photos with one of those modern solutions.
Oooohhhhhhh I WANT! Great giveaway.
Going to visit the exhibit! thx
This would be awesome to win! Please pick me 🙂
I would be thrilled if I can win this awesome prize. Thanks for this contest!
This is a pretty awesome prize!
This would be amazing to win!
This looks like it would be a lot of fun to play with. So many possibilities!
Awesome photos. I would love to win.
I wanna win a Giga-pan!
Wow – this is a great prize!
Awesome prize, would love to win it!!
The picture look amazing!
what awesome photos!
I’ve been trying to take more photos of my favourite parts of Vancouver over the years, to see how places evolve. This would be a fabulous addition to my camera!!
that would be awesome to win!
cool!
Would be EPIC!
Would love to win this for a good friend of mine.
Very nice prize – have fun with this!
This is a fantastic prize! I just purchased a DSLR. I can’t wait to capture beautiful BC shots.
Omggggg please please pleaseee send this one to me!
yah for contests! even bigger yah for free camera gear!
Wow, great prize. I would love to win.
Been editing tons of panoramic photos these days, I’d love to give it a try!
I wish I had won this before I rode around Alaska for three weeks. Looks like a great product. Would love to use it.
Wanna win! Thank you:-)
As an architecture junkie, this looks like an amazing tool for architectural photography!
Great prize. Fingers crossed!
This is would be very cool!
That is awesome, would love to play with one of those…thanks for the great giveaway. I also retweeted.
This would be so cool to have, would love a chance to win!
This would be a lot of fun. Great contest! Good luck everyone! 🙂
I would loveto win this amazing device! I’m sure it would help me further explore my passion for photography. pick me! pick me! 😀
I love panaramas! Excited indeed! ~
Yes. Please.
What an amazing instrument, would be great for my photos of rivers and lakes!
I would love to get my hand on one of these. Amazing!
Great medium/tool to enhance photos and sounds like a great exhibit!
I plan to do lots of traveling in the next while, so this would be wonderful.
Would love to win this!
Great Prize!
that is too cool!
Cool photos
I love panoramas!
if you want to see massive Gigapixel images in professional high quality, you can have a look here: http://querdenker-gigapixel.de/eng/Architektur-Castles.php or here http://querdenker-gigapixel.de/eng/Architektur-Dubai.php or… lots of Gigapixel images more to look at…
(all images are hand made without a robot for better quality)
So many pictures I want to capture with one of these beauties!
Fabulous camera. Please let me win.
Wow, this is so cool!
Thanks for this sweet chance to capture Panoramic Views!
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I’ve been dreaming with this since I first heard of it. Pick me, pick me, pick me!
Cool prize, wanting to win it!
I have been planning the composition of a photo I want to shoot for my first home. It’s all based in the awesome feeling that the BC forests give me when I stand in them. I’d love this device to help me capture a panoramic view so I could have this shot. I want to have a canvas made for my home.
Wow, that’s really cool!
i’m dreaming to have this kind of instrument!
It will beating trying to take pieces of pictures and stitch them together.
Cool, gonna try to catch this on Thursday.
Nice, this is really cool.
iGigaPan?
I just bought a new camera over the summer, gtting better slowly – this would make my pics so much nicer!
My daughter in on her high school yearbook committee and is really taking in interest in photography. I’d love to share this prize with her!
I would do some Gigapan photos of Whistler village I think! Also from here in White Rock too!
Amazing Giveaway!
Fantastic discovery (this page and the gigapixel site)!
I have been taking panoramic photos for years (some located here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9776782@N02/sets/72157621448885067/) but I have never taken a gigapixel panoramic photo. Usually, mine max out at 40000 x 5600 pixels, which then need to be reduced to 30000 pixel because of the jpeg limitation. My most complex pano to date required 24 images (in HDR – 3 ev settings each) of False Creek at night. This pano took over an hour to complete because of the wait required due to a mandatory dark frame subtraction for every exposure longer than 8 seconds.
Besides, it would be exceedingly difficult to manually take several hundred photos manually. I’m inspired! I have next week off and I am going to attempt a few gigapixel photos.
I own Kolor’s Autopan Giga, which is half the battle! Anyone looking for a great photographic autostitcher… this one is one of the best available!
Thanks for this site!
It sounds great. Nice instrument. Those pictures look wonderful.
Wow! Great prize, count me in!
Neat gizmo!
I have a machine at work, but my own would be fine.
this camera looks awesome! great giveaway!
This would take my photography to a whole new fun level! What an awesome gadget! I’m going to try and get down to the exhibit on Friday!
Eek! Pick me!
Winning would be awesome! Have always longed for a professional camera!
So many people entered this contest! That’s an amazing camera and it seems perfect for vacation shots!
Here’s my entry!
amazing!
I would definitely love to win this!
Super cool!! Consider me entered!