Blue 9 Productions

Panorama Vistas

I started making 360° QTVR images many years ago, using the old QTVR Authoring Studio application from Apple.

As part of my exploration of 360° QTVR imaging, I also had the opportunity to work with the Panoptic Vision Camera developed by Joshua Eskin and I have included some of my flattened out test shots made many years ago.

I still make these types of landscape images today, stitching together multiple, vertically oriented frames forming whatever field of view I feel works for the particular scene. In the old days, I shot the original frames for stitching using slide film, then scanned each frame individually for stitching in the QTVR Studio Application.

I no longer shoot the individual frames on film as this was a exceedingly tedious process. Now I primarily use a Sony A7 camera with old Canon FD lenes ranging from 15mm to 85mm. As I retired the old QTVR Authoring Studio application many years ago, I moved to RealViz Stitcher, then finally to Photoshop.

Somre of these images are a full 360° across, some are just 120° across, that depends on how many frames across were stitched together and what lens was used. The Panorama Veiwer page was created specifically for veiwing of the 360° files in some more detail.