User Guide

• [LEFT] bu"on - shoots a 360° panorama counter-clockwise. In our

example, the panorama consists of < photos, and the %rst photo is taken

in the current posi!on, followed by the second ;1.53° apart, and so on.

• Shots - Number of shots around for a full 360° panorama. Select the

number of shots from the list, or select Custom and enter the desired

number of shots, or the focal length of the lens used followed by mm.

The mm2 nota!on is also accepted. For example, 28 mm2 will compute

the full spherical panorama for a 28 mm lens, using Repeat. If the

number of shots is 1, using [LEFT] bu"on, only one photo is taken

followed by a rota!on of 360° *return to the ini!al posi!on+, if the Wait

op!on is selected. Useful when shoo!ng *%lming+ 360°. If the Rewind

op!on is selected, the rota!on is 0° *no rota!on+.

• [RIGHT] bu"on - shoots a 360° panorama clockwise. It is similar to

[LEFT] bu"on, but the rota!on is to the right.

• [MAP] bu"on - downloads a PTGui %le with the current preset. Use this

bu"on a'er all the se#ngs are set as you want.

MECHA will also o>er to download a map.zip %le containing three small

.png images. The images are the same for any map.

A high resolu!on set is also available here, with Mecha as zip password:

h"ps://www.nodalninja.com/MECHA-MAP/map-png.zip

• [Template] bu"on - downloads a PTGui %le that can be applied on a real

set of images. This template also contains the focal length. The angle of

images is set to ;°.

• [Probe] bu"on - downloads a probe *a PTGui %le+ from shoo!ng pa"ern

to study/re%ne the overlap.

MECHA User’s Guide v.05.4 ! Single Axis