Re: Buying or not? 360 degree one-shot camera for 1100 USD

> Details please.
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> What compact cameras can take (or has) fisheye lens?
> And for just 250 USD per camera and lens together?
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> And I don't get the "sequence the shots so that the back camera moves
> forward to the  front camera's old position before the shot." idea.
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> Could one really get 360 degree panos in a 100% automated way using 4
> cameras?
> No manual stitching or correction or entering of points for matching!
> Free Open Source software only.
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> Anyone done something like this?
> ULRs of Examples please?
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> Thanks,
> Jan
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> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ken Warner <kwarner000@...> wrote:
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>>You could do the same thing with a compact camera and a cheap
>>fisheye pointed straight up -- if you have a low car. And if
>>you don't, you could put one on the front and one on the back and
>>sequence the shots so that the back camera moves forward to the
>>front camera's old position before the shot.
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>>Or for $1100, you could put 4 of them on your car...
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>>Jan Martin wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
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>>>I am in the process of purchasing a 360 degree one-shot camera.
>>>May I ask for your input?
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>>>Please find a few examples (raw doughnuts and processed panoramas) at:
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>>>http://mybestprojects.com/examples
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>>>I'd like to do a kind of Google streetview website and therefore need to
>>>take a panos every 1 second.
>>>>From rooftop of a moving car, motorbike, bicycle or on foot.
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>>>What do you think?
>>>Is this worth 1100 USD?
>>>
>>>Alternatives (that are robust enough)?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Jan
>>>
>>>
>>>You will find 3 types of images:
>>>-d frame extracted from the video the camera takes: 500-700kb
>>>-p jpg pano made from doughnut: 450 kb
>>>-sm smaller pano made with 75% setting from jpeg: 90-110 kb
>>>
>>>Please use the picture numbers for you comments:
>>>1,3,4,6,15,32.
>>>
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