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Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D

Started May 12, 2019 | Discussions
Major Jack Reacher Senior Member • Posts: 1,653
Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D

Just curious if anybody has ever seen any photographs in 3D out of stadium, or arena photographs?   I realize they are high detail images, but seems it would be cool to see a football stadium, or baseball stadium in 3D, or maybe even an indoor arena.

Just curious.

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Bill Costa
Bill Costa Forum Member • Posts: 50
Re: Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D

Just curious if anybody has ever seen any photographs in 3D out of stadium, or arena photographs?

Well I took a 3D photo at a baseball game that came out fairly well with a normal base camera.  But I went down to some empty seats over the dug out, so the batter was reasonably close.  And photos from up in the cheap seats, looking down over the spectators towards the field look good too.  With a normal base camera, you will need to have something in the foreground that is reasonably close to make a good 3D photo.  But if there are no close foreground objects, than you need to increase your base by quite a bit if we're taking about something the scale of your typical stadium.

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relaxman Forum Member • Posts: 50
Re: Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D
OP Major Jack Reacher Senior Member • Posts: 1,653
Re: Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D

relaxman wrote:

You mean these?

https://krpano.com/stereo3d/sbs3d.html?cubepath=Tiger-Stadium-1

https://krpano.com/stereo3d/sbs3d.html?cubepath=Tiger-Stadium-2

YES.  Very nice.   How were these taken if you took them?

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relaxman Forum Member • Posts: 50
Re: Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D

I'm not the author, but make similar 3D panos.

You can make it even with one cam, if the scene is still.

Just dont rotate around the NPP parallax point, instead shift a little.

Tourlou Senior Member • Posts: 1,046
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This is just a matter of understanding the principle Major.  For exemple, take these ones that I shot through the plane window, with a single camera while flying across the rockies.  Some of these pictures were probably shot like half a mile to one mile apart, with the center focus point aiming at the same point.  The further you're from the closest thing you photograph, the wider apart both pictures can be shot.  When you shoot something like a panorama, to increase depth perception like i did with these mountains shots, you need to put some distance between the two shots.  When you do that, just make sure that there's nothing you can see at a close distance from the camera.  This will cause discomfort as the brain will not be able to compute 3D from that data.  If you can take a panorama from the edge of a cliff or from the edge of a building, then you can play with perception without causing discomfort.

Regards.

Ron

relaxman Forum Member • Posts: 50
Re: Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D

Nice, but it seems we talk here about stereo 360 panos

Tourlou Senior Member • Posts: 1,046
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Wow, this is a different beast.  I Beleive this is possible with the following conditions:

-You need 2 cameras attached together on the same bracket

-The close vision field must be uniform enough (or absent) so it doesn't disturb the eye.

- The closest well defined object must be far enough not to need to put the camera pivot point under the lens nodal point.

- The pictures should be viewed side by side with a restricted field of view of no more than 60 degrees maybe.

I think if all the conditions above are met, it's gonna work fine.

Regards.

Ron

relaxman Forum Member • Posts: 50
Re: Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D

As i wrote, no need for 2 cams, if the scene is perfectly still.

Tourlou Senior Member • Posts: 1,046
Re: Anybody ever seen any large scale Panoramas in 3D

It can work indeed.

Gerry Siegel
Gerry Siegel Veteran Member • Posts: 3,244
Many tries in the film era for wider and in stereo. Sorry. ThinkNot yet fully achieved even today.

At one time a photographer on Oahu took wide wide and tall and large surround type images with two medium format camera set. Then viewed with his complex optical viewer that had one hold it really close to the image pair.

My thought was that it was not as compelling as our eyes where we concentrate on the foveal center and move around.

That said, the Realist format was a compromise that enabled simpler camera film advance than say the Verascope. Having two cameras with 16 by 9 I would argue is suitable for 3-D. and flat screen TV if it comes back in force..

Using parallax gives the wow experience to me even as a square. Nothing that a wide screen or an anamorphic lens can reproduce...we can agree to disagree but gently in this forum ;-).

On the other hand, anamorphic lenses have become more refined. So....it is possible to shoot narrow and project WIDE. But then WHY so wide...to duplicate our field of view of course. And someone will find a way for we amateurs to achieve that. I give it five years. With virtual reality in HD with more than the old slides offered. I still love to shoot in portrait mode and never grooved on the default 35mm double normal film width. PS. Actor Gene Kelly said he hated composing shots in Cinemascope. Did not explain. 1: 2.4 was wide...and of course Cinerama gave a depth by doing its own thing. Me, I like stereopsis any shape it comes in. do you?

PS. There was a Japan made souvenir film strip viewer of world exhibition that aimed at wide stereo...kind of cheap simulation , seemed a wide crop in low resolution....challenge to get all parameters great is still hard, eh what?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch........:-D

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