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[Diego]

Maju, on 2 July 2008, 21:23, said:

Wow! Very impressive panoramic! It's almost like being there.

kevin.b, on 2 July 2008, 21:59, said:

Must agree , very very impressive, and much appreciated.

Thanks Maju and Kevin, we are looking forward to publish more and more panoramic movies. During our journey through Spain we made a total of 50 panoramic movies - if you have patience, we can assure you will see them all in our website. Just please take into account that each movie requires between 2 and 3 hours of "post-production" work, to make it as near as possible to the "real thing".

Maju, on 2 July 2008, 21:23, said:

How do you do that? Guess you must follow a very strict routine of sequential images, right?

We believe we've been the first to publish online panoramic movies of prehistoric sites, back in 1997. Since then, many things have changed: now we are using a Nikon D300 Digital SLR instead of our faithful Nikon F3+Kodak negative film. Actually, we are using a fisheye lens and a special panoramic head by 360Precision. We make 6 shots over 360° plus a zenit (top) and 2 nadir (bottom) shots. And a final shot with the camera handheld and pointed at the bottom, that is needed to mask the panoramic head base and the tripod in the final movie.

BTW, I believe we should split this topic into a new one devoted to the photo/shooting details...

Diego

[Pete G]

I have been using Photomatix Pro for a year now.
I think it is the best available.
I never got the chance to take any HDR's of the NLC's I saw over Wiltshire last night
http://spaceweather...._1215001500.jpg

If the clouds clear tonight I'll have another go...
Pete

[FourWinds]

So far it's sounding great! I love the Spanish stuff - all the Iberian stuff in fact. I've been to quite a few, but it's so hard to find information and directions.

Did you find anything exciting around Murcia?

I'm looking forward to when you have it all online so I can (at last) get some good information about the Spanish stuff.

Fantastic stuff!

Tom

[Maju]

Did you find anything exciting around Murcia?

Some of the links posted at the beginning of the thread are quite good. For Murcia check this: http://www.megalitos...tos/2murcia.htm

It reads:

La Comunidad Autónoma de Murcia no era considerado un territorio megalítico hace apenas unos años. Pero en la actualidad tienen ya inventariados unos 15 monumentos que han cambiado por completo la perspectivas. Los dólmenes parecen agruparse en las serranías del interior, aunque algunos llegan hasta la costa.

Or in English: The Autonomous Community of Murcia was not considered a megalithic territory just a few years ago but nowadays there are already some 15 monuments known that have totally changed the perspectives. The dolmens seem to be concentrated in the mountain ranges of the interior, though some are not far from the coast.

May I add that, in general, Central and Eastern Spain are poor in Megalithism, which is concentrated in southern, western and northern Iberia. Collective (clannic?) burial is known as well in the Central-Eastern area but mostly not in dolmens but in caves. Cave burial also happens now and then in dolmenic areas too.

Exceptions to the above general rule are Murcia and Pyrenean Catalonia. Whatever the site says I was aware of the existence of some Megalithism in Murcia since some time ago. Another excepion is the Balearic islands but theirs is a special late megalithism (allegedly derivated from the Corsican one) with very special forms, more notably the taulas: T-shaped pillars (taula means table in Catalan).