This is an amazing looking camera. It takes panoramas by downloading vertical strips of image information directly to the connected PC. Besides, being automatically stitched together into a 360 degree image, the camera also captures 26 F stops of lighting information AND accurate distance information to every pixel in the image.
This video shows a demonstration and interview with Bus. Mgr. Peter Taylor.
I don't know how they accomplish the latter trick - they don't really have parallax information since the capture comes from a single lens.
1 FaverShareViewed: 6 TimesQuoted: SpheronVR develops, produces and distributes solutions in the area of visual information technologies. Panoramic, full spherical and HDR digital camera systems, specialist hard- and software solutions for applications in the movie industry, photography, crime scene documentation, 3D reconstruction, facility management, critical infrastructure protection and many more.
Open source firmware replacement for your Canon point-and-shoot (powershot) camera gives you lots of amazing new features. This extensive post explains how to get:
- Long exposure times (up to 64 s)
- RAW mode
- Ultra fast exposure times (up to 1/100,000 s!)
- scripting(!) - e.g., timed photo capture -> long scale time lapse - a full scripting language to control your camera!
- exposure bracketing for HDR
Wow - this is pretty amazing! A camera that records 26 F stops of exposure over a 360x180 degree view along with distance information for each pixel. How come I haven't heard of this camera? Probably because it's so far out and crazy expensive (I haven't even seen a price but I'm assuming this doesn't come cheap).
1 FaverShareViewed: 12 TimesHDR hits the New York Times, but the article treats it as some sort of silly image trickery.
2 FaversShareViewed: 13 TimesQuoted: High dynamic range photography is one of many digital darkroom techniques catching the fancy of amateur photographers.
One of the best Shuttle launch photo's I've ever seen. This one looks like it was taken using HDR techniques (not possible given the short shutter speed). For whatever reason, the photo exhibits really amazing dynamic range.
1 FaverShareViewed: 30 TimesQuoted: Eliot J. Schechter/Getty Images - The shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center.
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