Canon PowerShot A530 stitching question

[Paul H]

I just bought a Canon PowerShot A530 digital camera. I chose it because it
is inexpensive and has an "auto-stitching" function. This feature, when
used with the included software, makes the process effortless. I can stand
in the center of a room and use the "stitch assist" feature to see a little
of each prior picture to align the new picture with the prior picture. Then
the software automatically corrects my slight mis-alignments and make one
panoramic picture of the room. It also has a 360 degree feature, that
creates a virtual view of the room, so I can use the mouse to rotate left or
right as if I'm standing in the room and looking around. The software that
supports that virtual view is part of the Windows software that Canon
includes. I want to be able to support the same feature on my web site,
using FrontPage 2002. Can I accomplish this? How? Thanks in advance for
any help. And please have patience with my excessive descriptions of the
features. No, I don't own any Canon stock - I just really like this camera.

 

[Tom Willett]

Your question is not related to FrontPage programming. Try asking support
at Canon.

 

[Paul H]

Thank you, Tom. Canon Support said "you will have to contact the maker of
the Microsoft FrontPage software for assistance". So I'm stuck between two
vendors who point to each other. I have seen real estate web sites that
routinely include these virtual views of rooms. I wonder how they do that
on their web site? Proprietary software, using another web development
tool? I can only hope that someone has solved this problem for users of
A530 cameras.
---------

Your question is not related to FrontPage programming. Try asking support
at Canon.
--
Tom Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
----------

I just bought a Canon PowerShot A530 digital camera. I chose it because it
is inexpensive and has an "auto-stitching" function. This feature, when
used with the included software, makes the process effortless. I can stand
in the center of a room and use the "stitch assist" feature to see a little
of each prior picture to align the new picture with the prior picture. Then
the software automatically corrects my slight mis-alignments and make one
panoramic picture of the room. It also has a 360 degree feature, that
creates a virtual view of the room, so I can use the mouse to rotate left or
right as if I'm standing in the room and looking around. The software that
supports that virtual view is part of the Windows software that Canon
includes. I want to be able to support the same feature on my web site,
using FrontPage 2002. Can I accomplish this? How? Thanks in advance for
any help. And please have patience with my excessive descriptions of the
features. No, I don't own any Canon stock - I just really like this camera.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

It really has nothing to do with FP.

If you want to do virtual tours of rooms/whatever, you need to find software
that will do this for you on your web. Do a google search for that.
And you'll have to make sure your host supports whatever software you buy to
create the tour.


| Thank you, Tom. Canon Support said "you will have to contact the maker of
| the Microsoft FrontPage software for assistance". So I'm stuck between
two
| vendors who point to each other. I have seen real estate web sites that
| routinely include these virtual views of rooms. I wonder how they do that
| on their web site? Proprietary software, using another web development
| tool? I can only hope that someone has solved this problem for users of
| A530 cameras.
| ---------
|
| | Your question is not related to FrontPage programming. Try asking support
| at Canon.
| --
| Tom Willett
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
| ----------
| |
| I just bought a Canon PowerShot A530 digital camera. I chose it because
it
| is inexpensive and has an "auto-stitching" function. This feature, when
| used with the included software, makes the process effortless. I can
stand
| in the center of a room and use the "stitch assist" feature to see a
little
| of each prior picture to align the new picture with the prior picture.
Then
| the software automatically corrects my slight mis-alignments and make one
| panoramic picture of the room. It also has a 360 degree feature, that
| creates a virtual view of the room, so I can use the mouse to rotate left
or
| right as if I'm standing in the room and looking around. The software
that
| supports that virtual view is part of the Windows software that Canon
| includes. I want to be able to support the same feature on my web site,
| using FrontPage 2002. Can I accomplish this? How? Thanks in advance for
| any help. And please have patience with my excessive descriptions of the
| features. No, I don't own any Canon stock - I just really like this
camera.
|
|

 

[xfile]

Hi,

Not an expert and just trying to help,

I guess this involves a two-step solution, so neither company could give you
what you wish to have:

(1) First, find out what file format does this software (or other similar
software) can save as?

(2) And check if this file format can be supported by FP or HTML standards.
Both earlier replies are correct and that is FP cannot do this, but there is
a chance that it might support the finished file format (a.go. flash,
shockwave, etc.). But even so, your visitors may need to download players
if they have not installed already.

You could also check some sites (a.go. Dell - I think) that provide some
kind 360 degree view of their products, which may be close to what you wish
to have. Then see what type of file they use.

Or search Google with keywords like "virtual reality" "virtual tour"
"animation" or anything close to what you wish and see how the result coming
up.

Finally but not lastly, you could also visit this newsgroup:
microsoft.public.expression.graphicdesigner There are plenty people who are
good at all sorts of graphics things.

PS: I bought X-Rebel but don't have time to investigate if it has similar
functions. Hope it has.

Hope this helps.