Nothing pretty in the presentation, just examples and mini projects.
But some of these do give examples of the possibilities.
Some of these are presented using Microsofts HD View, We want to point out that there are other delivery options available, and in some cases preferable.
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zoom is just the inside of a small car, taken with a fisheye and three shots, when possible I find 4 shots will give a more accurate stitch. |
| caviar | 12.5 megapixel image that loads like a 600 pixel image, scroll around and zoom in to see the detail. This uses MS HDView |
| Portrait of a camera | Just showing how high quality portraits and images can be displayed via the Internet and not suffer a quality loss MS HDView |
| Francene | Francene indulging me MS HDView |
| Rudolph | Rudolph waiting for the sleigh MS HDView |
| Evergreen Aviation Museum | 36 shot panorama outside the museum, 54 meapixel. scroll around and up and down. This would take forever to load with a normal pano viewer MS HDView |
| How many pixels do we need? | It’s more then just pixels, in this example we are using an 8mm fisheye lens coupled to a 21 megapixel Canon 5D mark II. The shot consists of 4 images stitched together to provide the final 360×180 image and is 38 megapixels. What we discover is that this lens can capture a full 180 degree shot. That’s from top to bottom and left to right. Actually only 2 shots are needed to show EVERYTHING.But 4 shots allows for better stitching.
Sounds impressive till you realize that a ‘normal’ 10 megapixel camera with a ‘normal 50mm lens only has a field of view of 40x27mm or 1/45 that of the fisheye. So to capture the same scene with the normal lens would be approximately 300 megapixels. What this tells us is that the trade off for using the fisheye has reduced the effective resolution of our 21 megapixel camera to 1.5 megapixels. For a normal and professional panorama of a room for Internet presentation that is not only acceptable, but much better then we currently find in local real estate panorama’s. If we really want to show the details in a scene (like reading the price tags) then we have to rethink our delivery options. |
