CKY
Veteran
Location: Sunshine Coast, BC, Canada
| The great thing about panos...
No camera man is really required
Artistic framing, FOV etc. not required
Just put the heli where you want, fire off the pictures as fast as you can, run them through the computer programs you use and you have the Pano.
If high enough, and no intermediate objects, telephone poles, light standards, etc. parralax will be of little issue if the heli does not drift much.
The idea of having the camera turn at a set and constant rate is a good one. Only problem is it will be moving as the shutter operates.
Really not a problem as my XTi at 10mm, will maximum render at 12K x 6K for the layered jpg. The panos will be optimum around 4K x 2K renders. Could be bigger but downloading speed becomes a problem.
What all that really means,
With a shutter speed of 1/1000th of a second, rotation speed of 10 seconds per revolution, frame rate of 1 picture per second, max resolution af 12K for 360degrees.
You will get 1.2 lateral pixal movement (blur) which really means your final resolution will still approach over 5000 pixals around.
That will still give a VERY good pano viewed on a web page.
If you could build an interupter that could stop the camera for the short interval while the picture is being taken, now you would have something.
Using longer lenses to get absolutely 'killer resolution panos' would now be an option.
Back to the shop...
Chris |
