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Hello there !

I have a little and complex idea to render a file with a far bigger quality than the SD1 but in a complex way :)

Here is my idea, who can be achieved with your help and the help of Richard Franiec :

The idea of a super studio, landscape and architectural camera, who beat the regurgitated crap who is the SD1, came to me at the start of the week. I really think it is possible to build it, every one of us, but there is some few questions who remain shady for me, on an optical and sensor point of view.

You will see 4 DP2x connected and orientated to cover the maximum of frame possible, some angles need to be calculated for that. For example, if we are in studio shooting a closeup portrait, the face should be spited on each screens and the frames should cover slightly.

All the DP minus one are geared with the Franiec's release adaptatorz and a customized one to free one flash socket. All the cables are grouped in one simple mechanical actuator.

Once you shoot, each camera will record her own part of the picture. Then you unload your 4 SD cards, process it in SPP, export tiff 16 bit and stitch it in Autopano pro and save it at tiff 16 bits.

The cheapest medium format ever on this planet.

What do you think about that ?





you have a lot of homework Richard now, especially for the support of the DP, who need to be orientated as much as we want for frame covering.

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I just had the idea that all the DP should be mounted on individual little Ball heads :)
 
stitch it in Autopano pro
What unfortunately kills much of the Foveon clarity. Every resampling operation (and pano maker needs resample all images) distorts this little cute aliasing, present in Foveon images.

Another problem are serious and uncorrectable perspective distortions. Panorama source images need to be taken from exactly same point, which is not the case with your solution.

Sorry.

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stitch it in Autopano pro
What unfortunately kills much of the Foveon clarity. Every resampling operation (and pano maker needs resample all images) distorts this little cute aliasing, present in Foveon images.

Another problem are serious and uncorrectable perspective distortions. Panorama source images need to be taken from exactly same point, which is not the case with your solution.

Sorry.
Actually they dont...I take handheld panos all the time, where the camera is never in the same place in each shot because it swivels round with my body...If you have the right Pano software it takes care of any perspective problems for you.

I use APG Kolor Autopano Giga...Which is simply the latest version of Autopano Pro. ;)
 
Hello there !

I have a little and complex idea to render a file with a far bigger quality than the SD1 but in a complex way :)

Here is my idea, who can be achieved with your help and the help of Richard Franiec :

The idea of a super studio, landscape and architectural camera, who beat the regurgitated crap who is the SD1, came to me at the start of the week. I really think it is possible to build it, every one of us, but there is some few questions who remain shady for me, on an optical and sensor point of view.

You will see 4 DP2x connected and orientated to cover the maximum of frame possible, some angles need to be calculated for that. For example, if we are in studio shooting a closeup portrait, the face should be spited on each screens and the frames should cover slightly.

All the DP minus one are geared with the Franiec's release adaptatorz and a customized one to free one flash socket. All the cables are grouped in one simple mechanical actuator.

Once you shoot, each camera will record her own part of the picture. Then you unload your 4 SD cards, process it in SPP, export tiff 16 bit and stitch it in Autopano pro and save it at tiff 16 bits.

The cheapest medium format ever on this planet.

What do you think about that ?





you have a lot of homework Richard now, especially for the support of the DP, who need to be orientated as much as we want for frame covering.

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http://www.hulyssbowman.com
It it were me, I would have all four in a line in portrait format...
 
Actually they dont...I take handheld panos all the time, where the camera is never in the same place in each shot because it swivels round with my body...If you have the right Pano software it takes care of any perspective problems for you.
It depends how precise you want to be. To do a 'proper' stitched panorama, you need all the camera's to be in the same nodal point, which is impossible with an array. With more distant subjects, you can get away with more, but for closer subjects, and array would show up the errors more.

Still, the design looks cool!
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I think the idea is to be able to take a high res shot with one click though...
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Exactely. For example, a sea shoot durring a little storm or a high sync speed shoot in studio. All is freezed in a single shoot and pano head will never remplace it (or just for long distance shoots).

The idea is for increased rez without the need of buying a SD1 for some applications.

It can be a bad idea though ... ;D

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LOL

 
Hello there !

I have a little and complex idea to render a file with a far bigger quality than the SD1 but in a complex way :)

Here is my idea, who can be achieved with your help and the help of Richard Franiec :

The idea of a super studio, landscape and architectural camera, who beat the regurgitated crap who is the SD1, came to me at the start of the week. I really think it is possible to build it, every one of us, but there is some few questions who remain shady for me, on an optical and sensor point of view.

You will see 4 DP2x connected and orientated to cover the maximum of frame possible, some angles need to be calculated for that. For example, if we are in studio shooting a closeup portrait, the face should be spited on each screens and the frames should cover slightly.

All the DP minus one are geared with the Franiec's release adaptatorz and a customized one to free one flash socket. All the cables are grouped in one simple mechanical actuator.

Once you shoot, each camera will record her own part of the picture. Then you unload your 4 SD cards, process it in SPP, export tiff 16 bit and stitch it in Autopano pro and save it at tiff 16 bits.

The cheapest medium format ever on this planet.

What do you think about that ?
you have a lot of homework Richard now, especially for the support of the DP, who need to be orientated as much as we want for frame covering.

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http://www.hulyssbowman.com
This idea has passed through the mind of most people that do stitched images for increased size, of Landscapes , and would like to do it with live people .

Autopano giga works very well resolving small Parallax differences of Landscape where small imperfections get masked by the softening of interpolation. This would not be the case of people that get noticeably distorted by Autopano.

What is needed is either :

4 cameras and one lens plus a 4 way prism
4 cameras with shifted tilted lenses


Focus and shuttera-perture settings have to be identical and this can only be done in Manual Operation with lenses and aperture preset to Hyperfocal .

This is not farfetched . In view camera times , before color film existed , there where Process Studio cameras that split the image 3 ways through individual R.G.B. filters to separate Black and White Film holders that were in fact "Color Separations" for making plates for the 3 color Printing Press.

Separate paths were created with the use of Mirrors.

Let me know when is ready.

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There might be a problem with the various sensors not matching exactly. That is, the color and brightness responses of the sensors might be slightly different due to normal production variations. Also, small variations in lens performance would show themselves too.

You could see this by experimenting with just two cameras, doing a simultaneous exposure and then stitching the results together.

In a pano made with a single camera, none of these factors enter into the final result because the same camera is used for all exposures.

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I agree, but also with the type of combined aperture/stutter arrangement in the DPs I doubt the exposure would exactly match either.

Even on conventional panoramas, there are slight differences in exposure on each shot, which the panorama software tries, sometime unsuccessfully, to correct.

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