Digital Imaging Software

VRlight is a Silverlight solution to display virtual tours (VR) of 360x180 panoramic images in HTML pages.

The update includes Hotspots and Infospots.

Please see http://cpicture.net/vrlight/ for a sample.

New in the package is VRedit, an editor to create and edit the configuration file:

See http://cpicture.net/VRlight/tutorial.html

and overpriced wooden houses on an example on 17405 NE 35th Pl Redmond, WA 98052.
I have been looking for a house in the Redmond area and this one seemed a good fit.

To make sure everything is OK I asked a building inspection to get me all the details. They did a great job and had a level of detail that probably not even the seller was aware. Well, he was probably not interested in doing anything for the house anyway.
Roof was leaking and had only a few years left. Water heater was leaking, had rust and need replacement even it was advertized as newly replaced. The water heater was purchased 1997. 
Kitchen fan lead to nowhere. Literally. We couldn't find where the stream ended. The fan in the restroom and bath ended in the open space under the roof.
The roof and the floors had no isolation; not good for the cold season.

But that was nothing against this one which another inspection I ordered revealed:
Drainage problems under the house. All rain water drains were clogged and caused the water level in the crawl space to rise. But this didn't seem to bother the current owner since they had a sump pump installed. Great. What the owner didn't know was that all crawl spaces were affected. And let’s hope there is no power outage to stop the pump.
All the water softened the soil under the base when a heavy rainstorm was near, and there are a lot of in this area.
The floor in the master bedroom was not level and the door was not in square. The side flashings on the roof were missing causing rain water to get in the wall.
A rotten porch roof support at the entrance of the house next to the unfinished stairs was the least of the problems. Pest control: The roof and the crawl space were housing rodents.
The garage door didn’t close fully and there were no sediment trap on the gas pipes. I also have some nice pictures of mold from the bathroom. Guess I stop for now. It’s a old wooden house.

And everything was advertised as a newly renovated and in great shape.
Guess what, the house was put new on the market and in just one week found a new owner. Well sort of. Sale is pending at the time of writing.
As I say for this market: You need only to make the sale.

Windows 7 is available today, October 22. ,2009!

• Geotagging, EXIF data editing, IPTC and adding comments
  are now using a widely accepted standard process using the exiftool.
• Added support for Vista and Windows7.

What panorama players are available? How does the choice of player affect the way a panorama performs? Is the image rendered differently? How long does it take to load? These examples show over a dozen different panorama players, each using basic settings and copies of the same source images, to help find answers to questions such as these.

The panorama players shown here include the venerable (but possibly fading) QuickTime VR itself, a number of Flash and Java-based players (well-known and otherwise), Shockwave, a couple of entirely custom-coded engines, and one that uses Microsoft's Silverlight platform. Among these are the best in the panorama industry, although it is up to you to decide which those are.

http://www.panoramaphotographer.com/comparisons/

VRlight is a Silverlight based multi-platform solution to display virtual tours (VR) of 360x180 panoramic images.
VRlight uses equirectangular images in JPEG and has four display modes:

• Vertical stacked images
• Horizontal stacked images
• Dropdown box with tour names
• Interactive map, see example here

Please see http://cpicture.net/vrlight/ for a sample.

Panasonic ZS3

Beispielbilder für min/max Brennweite und Macro. Alle Werte entsprechend für 35mm.

Sample pictures for min/max Zoom and macro. All values in 35mm equivalent.

Die ZS3 verfügt über eine minimale Brennweite von 4mm, entsprechend 25mm für 35mm. Normalerweise haben Kompaktkameras keine so kurze Brennweite.

The ZS3 has a starting focal length of 4mm, which is 25mm in 35mm equivalent. This is an exceptional value for a compact!

Gegenlicht
Flare

In diesem Beispiel wurde die Kamera direkt in die Sonne gehalten. Die Gegenlichteffekte sind zwar zu erkennen, aber sehr gering.

In this sample the camera is pointed towards the sun. Flare is visible, but under control.

25mm, 1/1000, f/5.6

 
25mm, 1/1000, f/5.6

Die Ausschnittsvergrößerung zeigt den wirkungsvollen Bildstabilisator. Wie so üblich bei Kameras mit ähnlich kleinem Sensor und hoher Megapixelzahl, zeigt diese Kamera selbst bei der niedrigsten Empfindlichkeit von ISO80 schon sehr sichtbares Rauschen.

The crop shows the effective image stabilization. As with all other cameras with similiar sensor sizes and high megapixel count, this camera shows a lot of color noise even with the lowest sensitivity of ISO 80.

300mm, 1/640, f/5.6, ISO 80

1:1 Ausschnitt
1:1 crop

300mm, 1/1300, f/6.3, ISO 80

1:1 Ausschnitt
1:1 crop

300mm, 1/640, f/5.6, ISO 80

1:1 Ausschnitt
1:1 crop

25mm, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 80

300mm, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 80

1:1 Ausschnitt
1:1 crop

25mm, 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 80

300mm, 1/400, f/4.9, ISO 80

Der Digitalzoom ist genauso schlecht wie bei jedem anderen Kameramodell auch. Schließlich wird ja nur ein kleinerer Bildbereich vergrößert.

The digital zoom is as bad as with any other camera model. Its only an enlargement of a smaller area.

1:1 Ausschnitt, 300mm mit 4x Digital-Zoom
1:1 crop, 300mm with 4x digital zoom

1200mm, 1/400, f/4.9, ISO 80

300mm, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 80

1:1 Ausschnitt, 300mm mit 4x Digital-Zoom
1:1 crop, 300mm with 4x Digital zoom

1200mm, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 80

Macro

Die Fokussierung ist sehr schnell und der minimale Abstand zwischen Objektiv und Objekt beträgt nur wenige cm. Der Objektivschatten ist oft ein Problem bei diesen kurzen Objektabständen und die Bilder weisen starke Farbsäume auf.

Focusing is fast and the minimal distance is about an inch from the front lens. The shadow of the lens barrel is often a problem with those short distances and the color fringe at the edges is quite significant.

25mm, 1/80s, f/3.3, ISO 80

25mm, 1/100s, f/3.3, ISO 80

1:1 Ausschnitt
1:1 crop

Betriebsart iA, automatisches Umschalten als Macro
iA mode, auto switch to Macro mode

Panoramic view Space Needle Park, Seattle, WA

Build in 1962 for the World's fair, the Space needle is a 184m high building in Seattle, WA.

The panorama was shot from the small park west of the Space Needle handhold (without a tripod).

Nikon D700, Sigma 8mm/3.5, ISO200, 1/320s, f/9

http://digitalvr.cpicture.net/Space-Needle-Park.html

Panoramic view Space Needle Fountain, Seattle, WA

Build in 1962 for the World's fair, the Space needle is a 184m high building in Seattle, WA.

The panorama was shot between the fountain and the Space Needle handhold (without a tripod).
This place is also quite busy and I had to wait about 15min to get a view not covered
completly from the cars waiting for valet parking.

 Nikon D700, Sigma 8mm/3.5, ISO200, 1/320s, f/9

http://digitalvr.cpicture.net/Space-Needle-Fountain.html

• Create a Web page with your pictures directly from your Raw files!
  Webpage feature is not limited to only JPEG format anymore.
  Select the pictures and create a website with all pages and picture files with the Website feature (Ctrl+H). All files are in a flat folder structure and can be copied directly to any website to have your own pictures online!
  
• Fix for Wallpaper support for Windows 7 beta.

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cPicture download

• Added important changes from the latest update of DCRAW as of 01/16/2009.
• Added EXIF display for NIKON NEF format to see the full EXIF content of the NEF files for:
  • Nikon D40
  • Nikon D50
  • Nikon D60
  • Nikon D70
  • Nikon D80
  • Nikon D90
  • Nikon D200
  • Nikon D300
  • Nikon D700
  • Nikon D3, D3X

With linking the EXIF engine to the NEF format, you can now use all EXIF tags in the customizable meta data display (for example customizable tooltips).

This new feature replace the Raw plugin and makes working with Raw files more easy. All major Raw files also contain a JPEG with max resolution and normal quality level, so there is no need to shoot JPEG+RAW anymore using this new feature!

 

All convert- and write-operations are redirected to use the included JPEG automatically and simplifies the workflow which would normally be used for the separate JPEG. For Raw processing you will continue to use your dedicated processing software (via the Ctrl-Quicklaunch feature in cPicture).

 

For example: Shoot only Raw, select the pictures and send mail with Ctrl+M

 

The list of supported Raw formats (Jpeg in Raw picture format):

 

 

• Check file for JPEG structure (Repair) feature

This new feature takes any file (for example broken JPEGs, documents, binary files or any other data file) and stores all JPEGs inside this file as new standard compliant JPEGs.

 

Available from the Tools menu: 

See the new Best-Of-2008 event of the World Wide Panorama: