Experimenting in Panoramic Stereoscopic 3D video
I have a 360° Panoramic stereoscopic 3D multicamera video rig using 14 cameras.
http://photocreations.ca/3D/mobius_camera_rig.html
I have added a new S3D panorama of the sun setting.
http://photocreations.ca/3D/index.html
Unfortunately two of the cameras did not record. The faulty cameras were the left and right view of the exact spot where the sun was going down. The -20°C cold weather meant the cameras did not record as long as I hoped. record time were between 20:48 and 53:50, averaging 37:30 minutes. I compressed the usable 20 minutes footage into a 1 minute timelapse.
I was also testing the quality of locking the white balance of all the cameras; in this case to cloudy. I corrected for the changes the cameras make because of autoexposure but even with whitebalance locked, I should have also corrected for differences in whitebalance.
I have got much better at the aligning and stitching of the videos.
My new interest in 3D panoramic video led me to go back and render in higher resolution my first interactive panoramic video I have published. I shot it in April 2006 before I had any way of showing it.
It is a poker game with the camera positioned over the center of the table. I used my full frame fisheye on my Nikon D70s. I shot my VR video by pointing my camera in different directions for each sequence. I tethered the camera to my computer capturing a jpg image as frequently as I could, every couple seconds.
I published a smaller interactive version in 2008. Over the years I have been told that it has inspired others in the panoramic photography community to create interactive panoramic video. Every time I watch it I want to make it again with a proper video camera and better actors.
To watch it, get the full story, and see how it was made see my site.
http://photocreations.ca/mff2008_wpt2006/index.html
http://photocreations.ca/3D/mobius_camera_rig.html
I have added a new S3D panorama of the sun setting.
http://photocreations.ca/3D/index.html
Unfortunately two of the cameras did not record. The faulty cameras were the left and right view of the exact spot where the sun was going down. The -20°C cold weather meant the cameras did not record as long as I hoped. record time were between 20:48 and 53:50, averaging 37:30 minutes. I compressed the usable 20 minutes footage into a 1 minute timelapse.
I was also testing the quality of locking the white balance of all the cameras; in this case to cloudy. I corrected for the changes the cameras make because of autoexposure but even with whitebalance locked, I should have also corrected for differences in whitebalance.
I have got much better at the aligning and stitching of the videos.
My new interest in 3D panoramic video led me to go back and render in higher resolution my first interactive panoramic video I have published. I shot it in April 2006 before I had any way of showing it.
It is a poker game with the camera positioned over the center of the table. I used my full frame fisheye on my Nikon D70s. I shot my VR video by pointing my camera in different directions for each sequence. I tethered the camera to my computer capturing a jpg image as frequently as I could, every couple seconds.
I published a smaller interactive version in 2008. Over the years I have been told that it has inspired others in the panoramic photography community to create interactive panoramic video. Every time I watch it I want to make it again with a proper video camera and better actors.
To watch it, get the full story, and see how it was made see my site.
http://photocreations.ca/mff2008_wpt2006/index.html