VRMAG - CHRIS RAMIREZ RIDES THE EVENTCAM WAVEman on the moon - panoramas of first and last missions, apollo 11 and apollo 17Chris Ramirez must be getting used to the questions and stares the ten Canon S60s mounted on a 10-foot high tripod elicit. By now, most people in the VR community are familiar with freelance photographer Chris Ramirez and the EventCam, which he used to capture moments from the recent Republican and Democrat conventions for The New York Times.I decided it would be interesting to give them both a wide print version along with a 360 degree immersive image for their website. I used the Kaidan Panoramic Tripod head, Apple QuickTime Authoring Studio (stitching software) and Canon EOS 1 w/28mm lens. At the time we had to keep the file size down to 400k for web delivery. (Small files didn’t allow for zooming into the images and picking up detail and content. With broadband I feel comfortable producing a 3mb file that gives a decent amount of zooming and adds to the overall tonality and sharpness. It seems the load time varies from 3 seconds to 10 seconds.
