Today I received my recently ordered Gigapan Epic 100 Robotic Panohead and thought I would share my initial thoughts and observations. First off let me say I wish to thank Chris in Florida, USA (one of my regular tuition customers and good bloke) for posting the item out to me in Australia after allowing me to have the item shipped to his address because I felt the shipping charge from Gigapan in Portland, Oregon USA to Australia was a HUGE rip-off. I was proved right when Chris managed to send it to me for under $53.00 USD postage full insured when Gigapan wanted far more than double this amount and refused to send it to my secure Post Office address. Now I know that they use UPS and UPS pick up which is no doubt convenient and that UPS won't deliver to a Post Office but still you would think somebody could make the effort to go to a Post Office and send items. I have had the people at Raw Work Flow, USA go out of their way to send to my Post Office delivery address without a fuss.

Price: $449.00 USD + $10.21 USD UPS delivery to Florida (8 days actual) $52.03 USD Fully Insured Postage to Australia (7 days actual).

Anyway, the boxed Gigapan Epic 100 arrived in good shape without any noticeably damage to the packaging. The robotic panohead was packaged well in a custom contoured foam cell for perfect fit (nice). More to come ...

Totally Hand Held 3 shots using the Canon 5D MKII and Tokina 10-17mm Zoom Fisheye @10mm. Nearing completion, the Bathurst City Centre Shopping Mall. This panorama shows the Howick Street Entrance.

This panorama was shot with my latest camera and primarily was a testing session at high ISO levels with this panorama image shot at ISO 3200 @ f/8.0 in low fading light. The master image is just over 14000x7000 pixels and 879mb in total 16Bit .tif format. With the low resolution version show online at 6000x3000 and 3mb.