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360 degree panorama gear
Pat Cooney wrote:
Hi all, I have been hired to take some 360 degree QTVR photos for a client. I currently am using a manfrotto QTVR head that works great for most of the images my client wants, but there is one image in particular that I'm concerned about. The image requires a lot of people to be in the shot, and to be in movement when photoed, if that makes any sense. It's a photo of a train station, and he wants people stepping off and on the train and milling about the station, but done in a 360 degree panoramic shot. I have no clue how to do this with the tradition way of rotating the camera 20 degrees or whatever and shooting photo after photo. I recently purchased a mirror apparatus that fits onto the lens of the camera and allows me to take a 360 photo with one shot from VR interactive (www.vri.ca). This idea seemed perfect because then I could capture all sorts of motion without worrying about how to stitch it. The problem is, the mirror is of poor quality and I'll never been able to capture a nice, high res image using it. I was wondering if any of you had any ideas, maybe on a mirror type apparatus of higher quality or of a technique using the tradtional 360 pano head that would allow me to capture that motion. Maybe a Cirkut camera? Don't think that would give you 360 though... -- dadiOH _____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.0... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico ____________________________ |
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360 degree panorama gear
This may sound crazy, but then I'm a mere amateur, so I'm allowed to
have crazy ideas g. Can you get a camera and lens with 120 degree angle with adequate quality - or, more precisely, can you get 4 such cameras, arranged looking out of a square, and synchronised to fire together? 4 x 120 degrees will give to about 15 degrees on each side of each image that would overlap. Just an idea! George. Pat Cooney wrote: Hi all, I have been hired to take some 360 degree QTVR photos for a client. I currently am using a manfrotto QTVR head that works great for most of the images my client wants, but there is one image in particular that I'm concerned about. The image requires a lot of people to be in the shot, and to be in movement when photoed, if that makes any sense. It's a photo of a train station, and he wants people stepping off and on the train and milling about the station, but done in a 360 degree panoramic shot. I have no clue how to do this with the tradition way of rotating the camera 20 degrees or whatever and shooting photo after photo. I recently purchased a mirror apparatus that fits onto the lens of the camera and allows me to take a 360 photo with one shot from VR interactive (www.vri.ca). This idea seemed perfect because then I could capture all sorts of motion without worrying about how to stitch it. The problem is, the mirror is of poor quality and I'll never been able to capture a nice, high res image using it. I was wondering if any of you had any ideas, maybe on a mirror type apparatus of higher quality or of a technique using the tradtional 360 pano head that would allow me to capture that motion. Thanks in advance. Pat |
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(Pat Cooney) writes:
The image requires a lot of people to be in the shot, and to be in movement when photoed, if that makes any sense. It's a photo of a train station, and he wants people stepping off and on the train and milling about the station, but done in a 360 degree panoramic shot. There are mirrors that let you do 360 cylinders in one shot; see http://www.0-360.com/ http://www.kaidan.com/Detail.bok?no=101 SNIP I recently purchased a mirror apparatus that fits onto the lens of the camera and allows me to take a 360 photo with one shot from VR interactive (www.vri.ca). This idea seemed perfect because then I could capture all sorts of motion without worrying about how to stitch it. The problem is, the mirror is of poor quality and I'll never been able to capture a nice, high res image using it. Drop by http://www.z360.com/index1.htm Select Panoramas, then select Worldwide Panorama Day -- it's a fullscreen pano in the middle of a group of protestors. Compare that with your quality. -- Philip Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed Legal Assistance on the Web | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.PhilipStripling.com/ | my domain is read daily. |
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"Phil Stripling" wrote in message
... (Pat Cooney) writes: The image requires a lot of people to be in the shot, and to be in movement when photoed, if that makes any sense. It's a photo of a train station, and he wants people stepping off and on the train and milling about the station, but done in a 360 degree panoramic shot. There are mirrors that let you do 360 cylinders in one shot; see http://www.0-360.com/ http://www.kaidan.com/Detail.bok?no=101 SNIP I recently purchased a mirror apparatus that fits onto the lens of the camera and allows me to take a 360 photo with one shot from VR interactive (www.vri.ca). This idea seemed perfect because then I could capture all sorts of motion without worrying about how to stitch it. The problem is, the mirror is of poor quality and I'll never been able to capture a nice, high res image using it. Drop by http://www.z360.com/index1.htm Select Panoramas, then select Worldwide Panorama Day -- it's a fullscreen pano in the middle of a group of protestors. Compare that with your quality. -- Philip Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed Legal Assistance on the Web | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.PhilipStripling.com/ | my domain is read daily. What systems (and how big) are used in the Z360 site? Those are a lot more sophisticated than Kaidan/0-360's. |
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"leo" writes:
What systems (and how big) are used in the Z360 site? Those are a lot more sophisticated than Kaidan/0-360's. I dunno. Drop them a line and ask. -- Philip Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed Legal Assistance on the Web | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.PhilipStripling.com/ | my domain is read daily. |
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On 2004-07-12, George Bolgar wrote:
This may sound crazy, but then I'm a mere amateur, so I'm allowed to have crazy ideas g. Well, if we are going to throw out crazy ideas...I don't know if they are available with enough resolution, but there are video cameras that can record 1000 frames per second. Mount one of these on something that is rotating at 3600 RPM and that will shoot 16.67 frames per revolution, giving approximately the 20 degrees between frame that someone earlier mentioned as the normal for shooting panoramas. -- --Tim Smith |
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George Bolgar writes:
Can you get a camera and lens with 120 degree angle with adequate quality - or, more precisely, can you get 4 such cameras, arranged looking out of a square, and synchronised to fire together? 120 degrees is a pretty extreme wideangle. On a full-frame 35 mm camera, the focal length needed is 10.4 mm. You are talking about a *rectilinear* wideangle of that focal length, not a fisheye, which is pretty much nonexistent. On the other hand, the more cameras, the narrower (and more practical) the field of view. Dave |
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George Bolgar writes:
Can you get a camera and lens with 120 degree angle with adequate quality - or, more precisely, can you get 4 such cameras, arranged looking out of a square, and synchronised to fire together? 120 degrees is a pretty extreme wideangle. On a full-frame 35 mm camera, the focal length needed is 10.4 mm. You are talking about a *rectilinear* wideangle of that focal length, not a fisheye, which is pretty much nonexistent. On the other hand, the more cameras, the narrower (and more practical) the field of view. Dave |
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