I always wanted to try a 360 panorama with an astro-modified camera and this week the weather was good so I went to my favourite spot at Cape Schanck lighthouse and used my modified Sony NEX-5 with Nikkor 10.5mm fish-eye lens.
Two virtual tours below are made from 6 shots (30 sec, ISO 3200) at 30 degrees up. Stitched in PTGUI.
Balancing the colours is a bit more painful with spectrum modified sensor but I think I got it pretty close to what it looked like at the scene.
Two links below should open virtual Flash tours (each tour is 2.5MB so it takes a while to load). It starts to rotate after loading but you can spin and zoom with the mouse or the buttons at the bottom.
Very cool alex. It's like being there. With a fast enough computer for playback and a fisheye lens you recon you'd be able to map a video to a sphere? I'm thinking of an immersive time lapse. Done it in the past for very short pre-rendered video segments but the technology has gone a long way since then.
Mike, Niko - thanks!
I have been planning a set of articles for more than a year but finding time is the biggest issue. I find myself either working, imaging or processing images
hey alex.. great work again. keep an eye out for auroras down there these days.. russell cockman has already caught a glimpse from bayside suburbs in a couple of images.
articles would be good, but for now do you have a link to instructions about how you posted your VR pano online? i did one at heathcote last night but have got around to figuring out the online code and your interface looks good.
Awesome work, the image quality it superb as usual. And it's amazing to be able to pan around and look up on the Milky Way like that, like being there - just great Thanks for sharing these. If you ever do find time to write some articles then I'd certainly be a keen reader too.
With a fast enough computer for playback and a fisheye lens you recon you'd be able to map a video to a sphere? I'm thinking of an immersive time lapse. Done it in the past for very short pre-rendered video segments but the technology has gone a long way since then.
