360 degree panorama gear

Pat Cooney

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Jul 12, 2004, 4:46:45 PM7/12/04

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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

Pat Cooney

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Jul 12, 2004, 4:47:18 PM7/12/04

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dadiOH

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Jul 12, 2004, 6:27:38 PM7/12/04

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Maybe a Cirkut camera? Don't think that would give you 360 though...

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Phil Stripling

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Jul 12, 2004, 7:55:25 PM7/12/04

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thatp...@gmail.com (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.

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leo

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Jul 12, 2004, 9:19:05 PM7/12/04

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"Phil Stripling" <phil_st...@cieux.zzn.com> wrote in message
news:3qwu18h...@shell4.tdl.com...

What systems (and how big) are used in the Z360 site? Those are a lot more
sophisticated than Kaidan/0-360's.

Phil Stripling

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Jul 12, 2004, 11:03:01 PM7/12/04

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"leo" <som...@somewhere.net> 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.