Ian Tindale’s QTVR panoramas

All of these were shot on film, using either a Nikon F4 or Nikon F-801 body, mounted sideways on a Kaidan Kiwi+, using a Nikkor AF 20mm lens. The panoramas were all shot as a sequence of 12 frames per pano, and stitched together in Apple’s QuickTime VR Authoring Studio (an application which hasn’t been updated one iota since those days and now cannot be used as it requires Classic or OS 9 to run in).

Created during 1999

During 1999 I created quite a number of QTVR panoramas, many of them multi-node. These haven’t been touched in the years since, so bear in mind that a lot of the subject matter and dates and such are now anachronistically presented.

The opening frame is itself a special kind of QT movie, with href hotspots that make it act like a menu. If you show the hotspots you can see how it works. Each pano typically has a few areas where names are given to objects under the mouse, and usually at least one or more links to another pano. Consequently, they all link from one into another. Well, that’s not quite true - the linking isn't so comprehensive as to encompass the whole collection of panos (as some didn’t yet exist yet to be linked to). If you find you're at a dead-end, you need to return to this page to get the main qtvr selector movie.

After these, the only pano I successfully created was for our wedding — that is, until very recently (end of 2005) at which point I started taking panos again in digital, but not as QTVR movies.