Quick help in choosing a kit for panoramic (photosynth) shots, please?

[vegard]

I’m thinking that I need to rotate on the horisontal axis once (360 degrees), and on the vertical axis (180 degrees) up-and-down I guess at least six times, taking six pictures for each up-movement, in order to capture the full scene.

This is an example of about how good I can get it manually, without a mount and such, and it isn’t quite perfect: photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=9d21843a-8fe2-4f03-8bc9-0ceb083c85fd

So my guess is two motors, a programmable chip, and a power-source would suffice.

But given that I’m new to this and there are so many choices, I’d like to hear your opinions please.

[vegard]

Wait, so is that thing an actuall fully functional gadget that I can just slap a regular camera on to and it will turn up and down and press the button on the camera to take pictures at angular intervalls?

That is so practical yet so funny.

…AAAAnd quote from the multimedia-clip, “And that’s what makes this such a funny robot.”.

Sold. “Shut up and take my money”.

[cbenson]

Two servo motors would work well - mounted on a pan / tilt. In order to get 360, you need a specific servo (the 785HB) either on its own or mounted in a power gearbox. For the tilt, consider a direct drive DDT540 with 645MG servo. To control these, you need a servo controller, and of course a 4.8V to 6V power supply. You may also consider Gigapan which has complete systems.