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Re: Buying or not? 360 degree one-shot camera for 1100 USD
by Ken Warner-3
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The IPIX has about 185 degree FOV but the edges have a strong rolloff so
you really only can use about 175 degrees.
And I doubt that you will get cm or mm GPS accuracy. Bulldozers are not
really mm accurate in their work :-)
A smart guy with money to burn could do a lot of things like you suggest.
Unfortuantely, I miss both requirements :-))))
Mark D. Fink wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Wow, that got my brain moving! If you had a Coolpix with their fisheye lens
> attached, that gives you about 185 fov, right? If you had a particular
> location that you wanted to cover TOTALLY, would the following scenario
> work?
>
> 1. Mount the camera on a motorized platform, pointing forward so that the
> platform isn't in the photo.
>
> 2. Set up a local GPS system that gives you perhaps centimeter or even
> millimeter accuracy. (An engineer friend of mine told me about a site he was
> working on where they had a local GPS system set up with several
> transmitters and several receivers mounted on a bulldozer. They fed in what
> they wanted the topology to be, and the bulldozer automatically adjusted the
> pitch and height of the blade.)
>
> 3. Drive the platform around the area to be covered, taking photos at
> regular intervals in a grid pattern so that you end up with four views taken
> at each intersection of the grid.
>
> 4. Group the images together based on their local GPS coordinates, which
> should give you four fisheye images that you can stitch together.
>
> 5. Navigate the final array of panos which should give you a fully immersive
> tour.
>
> Mark
> www.pinnacle-vr.com
> www.northernlight.net
> www.360cities.net
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: PanoToolsNG@... [mailto:PanoToolsNG@...] On
>>Behalf Of Ken Warner
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:03 PM
>>To: PanoToolsNG@...
>>Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] Buying or not? 360 degree one-shot camera for
>>1100 USD
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Or for $1100, you could put 4 of them on your car...
>>
>>Jan Martin wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I am in the process of purchasing a 360 degree one-shot camera.
>>>May I ask for your input?
>>>
>>>Please find a few examples (raw doughnuts and processed panoramas) at:
>>>
>>>http://mybestprojects.com/examples
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>------------------------------------
>>
>>--
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
you really only can use about 175 degrees.
And I doubt that you will get cm or mm GPS accuracy. Bulldozers are not
really mm accurate in their work :-)
A smart guy with money to burn could do a lot of things like you suggest.
Unfortuantely, I miss both requirements :-))))
Mark D. Fink wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Wow, that got my brain moving! If you had a Coolpix with their fisheye lens
> attached, that gives you about 185 fov, right? If you had a particular
> location that you wanted to cover TOTALLY, would the following scenario
> work?
>
> 1. Mount the camera on a motorized platform, pointing forward so that the
> platform isn't in the photo.
>
> 2. Set up a local GPS system that gives you perhaps centimeter or even
> millimeter accuracy. (An engineer friend of mine told me about a site he was
> working on where they had a local GPS system set up with several
> transmitters and several receivers mounted on a bulldozer. They fed in what
> they wanted the topology to be, and the bulldozer automatically adjusted the
> pitch and height of the blade.)
>
> 3. Drive the platform around the area to be covered, taking photos at
> regular intervals in a grid pattern so that you end up with four views taken
> at each intersection of the grid.
>
> 4. Group the images together based on their local GPS coordinates, which
> should give you four fisheye images that you can stitch together.
>
> 5. Navigate the final array of panos which should give you a fully immersive
> tour.
>
> Mark
> www.pinnacle-vr.com
> www.northernlight.net
> www.360cities.net
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: PanoToolsNG@... [mailto:PanoToolsNG@...] On
>>Behalf Of Ken Warner
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:03 PM
>>To: PanoToolsNG@...
>>Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] Buying or not? 360 degree one-shot camera for
>>1100 USD
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Or for $1100, you could put 4 of them on your car...
>>
>>Jan Martin wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I am in the process of purchasing a 360 degree one-shot camera.
>>>May I ask for your input?
>>>
>>>Please find a few examples (raw doughnuts and processed panoramas) at:
>>>
>>>http://mybestprojects.com/examples
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>------------------------------------
>>
>>--
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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