arampan
Posts: 176
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Registered: 9 Oct 2005
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Morten Boe
Posts: 225
Location: Perth, Australia
Registered: 8 Aug 2005
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Re: Check out my VR in a shoe
Posted: 21 Dec 2006 at 5:52 GMT
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Fantastic!
Please, please, please explain how you did this.
Amazing quality considering the challenge of shooting at such very close range.
Regards,
Morten
www.trueview.com.au
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DorinDXN
Posts: 2408
Location: Timisoara, Romania
Registered: 14 Nov 2006
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Re: Check out my VR in a shoe
Posted: 21 Dec 2006 at 8:01 GMT
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Wow!
is there optic fiber involved or you use a small camera?
Now is much easier for Santa to find your shoes 
thanks for sharing
Dorin
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BerndD
Posts: 91
Location: Germany
Registered: 15 Nov 2006
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Re: Check out my VR in a shoe
Posted: 21 Dec 2006 at 10:40 GMT
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Hi Aram,
nice pano and very cool idea !!!
I think you used a kind of mirrorball (pinball, christmastree-mirrorball ...) inside the shoe.
Best from germany
Bernd
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DorinDXN
Posts: 2408
Location: Timisoara, Romania
Registered: 14 Nov 2006
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Re: Check out my VR in a shoe
Posted: 21 Dec 2006 at 11:32 GMT
updated: 21 Dec 2006 at 11:33 GMT
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Very good ideea with chrsitmastree-mirrorball
under the pano in galerry, I just notice as equipment
"An ACME shrinking ray gun..."
that's means a device with optic fiber?
and in this pano zenith is patched instead of nadir?
Dorin
ps. sorry for the questions instead of coments but I'm just curious about it
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arampan
Posts: 176
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Registered: 9 Oct 2005
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Re: Check out my VR in a shoe
Posted: 22 Dec 2006 at 7:39 GMT
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You guys are quite close but not close enough. I used several proprietary stuff to get this pano. Firstly, no christmas ball or pinball will ever get you this kind of sharpness. It is a custom unit made to my specifications. It has a special mirror coating with an ULTRA high level of reflectivity. It is also engineered to such an extreme standard, you cannot find even the smallest scratch or defect under a 20X magnifying glass. This custom super mirror is the foundation for this VR. It also has to be anti-static treated as dust causes a shitload of problems when you combine flash with a mirror at macro level.
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Klaus
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Location: Hamburg, Germany
Registered: 23 Dec 2006
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Re: Check out my VR in a shoe
Posted: 23 Dec 2006 at 13:45 GMT
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This is amazing. Where did you get that mirror ball? Is it to buy somewhere?
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arampan
Posts: 176
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Registered: 9 Oct 2005
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Re: Check out my VR in a shoe
Posted: 24 Dec 2006 at 4:34 GMT
updated: 24 Dec 2006 at 4:35 GMT
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I bugged an engineering friend of mine to get it made for me. I think the cost to make it is around US$60.
However... I think the anti-static thingy doesn't work anymore. Must just be some kinda coat. Other than that, it's optically perfect
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