GigaPan System

Craig Gerard · Post by **Craig Gerard** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:06 pm

GigaPan System (updated)

http://gigamacro.com/gigapixel-macro-imaging-system/

Craig

ChrisRaper · Post by **ChrisRaper** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:20 pm

It's not a bad system ... I have been working with one of the alternatives this year - SatScan Collections but SmartDrive

DQE · Post by **DQE** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:14 pm

I wouldn't turn one down if it magically showed up at my door step!

I see that they want about $15,000 US dollars, possibly including camera and lenses.

If they'd let me use my own camera and lenses and PC, perhaps bring the price down to about $8-10,000 (roughly). I could be misunderstanding the pricing, of course.

The telecentric optics add-on for a 100mm or MPE-65 lens is certainly interesting. I wonder what it consists of and what its specs are?

DQE · Post by **DQE** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:26 pm

Here's a DIY GIgapan system:

http://www.explorablemicroscopy.org/hom ... stmacrorig

Not sure if it provides all the bells and whistles of the commercial system!

Craig Gerard · Post by **Craig Gerard** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:36 pm

DQE wrote:The telecentric optics add-on for a 100mm or MPE-65 lens is certainly interesting. I wonder what it consists of and what its specs are?

Phil,

Gene Cooper is a member on the forum and we did discuss this device and various components. I haven't time at the moment; but a forum search for 'Gigapan' or 'telecentric' should provide a trail. I don't think there is any deep mystery with regard to the telecentric arrangement. It is a diopter positioned at a distance equal to it's focal length from the entrance pupil of the relay lens. Please correct me if I am wrong

Craig

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:29 pm

Like probably half the universe, I have a redundant flatbed scanner. Somebody somehwere must have converted one of those to do stitching.
???

That begs the question: suppose you could change the lens in a scanner to focus well away from the glass - or do some of them do that already?

ChrisRaper · Post by **ChrisRaper** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:46 am

ChrisR wrote:Like probably half the universe, I have a redundant flatbed scanner. Somebody somehwere must have converted one of those to do stitching.

You need to convert it into a ... HerbScan

Then flog it for a small fortune to a herbarium for scanning their pressed specimens

I have seen these in action and they're a ridiculously simple piece of kit - turn a scanner upside down and mount it in a frame, then provide a simple table underneath that you put specimens on and then an arm that moves the table up to meet the scanner. Works a treat, or so I'm told - and the resulting images are almost as good as the real thing

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:36 am

Craig Gerard wrote: Gene Cooper is a member on the forum and we did discuss this device and various components. I haven't time at the moment; but a forum search for 'Gigapan' or 'telecentric' should provide a trail.

Is this what you had in mind?

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... hp?t=10115

Harold