Walter Wellman
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Location: Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
Registered: 10 Mar 2005
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Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 27 Dec 2005 at 16:43 GMT
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I am trying to offer a new 360 emersive service. I have a 8mm Peleng fisheye lens on a canon 300d rebel. I want to take a single fisheye picture looking straight down from a height of 100 feet over a construction site. I want to be able to make this picture a 360 degree tour.
Is it possible to create a tour with one fisheye shot as I describe? Any help would be greatly appreciated
Walter
www.RPVaerialphoto.com
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ddd
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Location: vancouver, Canada
Registered: 21 Jul 2004
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 27 Dec 2005 at 17:20 GMT
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you could take a bunch of photos of different skies. Shoot 2 photos of the land then go home, pick a couple of sky shots that match and voila. How much does your helicopter cost?
have fun
Dylan
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Walter Wellman
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Location: Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
Registered: 10 Mar 2005
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 27 Dec 2005 at 17:44 GMT
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The helicopter is around $2,500 and all the telemetry and downlink equipment is around $3,000. Not including all the different cameras I use.
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michael przewrocki
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Location: basel, Switzerland
Registered: 19 Nov 2004
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 27 Dec 2005 at 21:45 GMT
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i know someone who has a helicopter which can load 30 kgs.
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Jeff Young
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Location: London, Canada
Registered: 20 Aug 2004
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 29 Dec 2005 at 15:54 GMT
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Walter,
iLOOKabout has developed a Single Hemi Wizard that displays the fisheye and keeps the entire image in bounds while you are panning. You can down load the image from the iLOOKabout website (member area).
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Walter Wellman
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Location: Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
Registered: 10 Mar 2005
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 30 Dec 2005 at 16:04 GMT
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I appreciate the replies but they aren't much help to me.
I only want to use a single vertical 8mm fisheye shot looking straight down. The reason for the single shot is when I pan the camera for 2 or 3 horizontal shots there is no way I can hold the helicopter perfectly level for the entire 3 shot pan. I thought I'd be able to overcome this by taking one shot straight down.
If I'm wrong and this technique is not possible I hope someone tells me before I invest any more money.
Walter
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Pelle Piano
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Location: Farsta, Sweden
Registered: 18 May 2004
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 30 Dec 2005 at 17:25 GMT
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If the Peleng had made a clean circle of 180 degrees you could make a quite nice panorama just by unwrapping the image with the Polar Cordinates filter ( much like the oneshot solutions do ).
What you can test first is taking a photo with the camera facing the ground and then change the canvas size ( in Photoshop ) so it fits the "circle" of your image ( what should have been the circle if the peleng were more wide ). And then run the Polar Coordinates filter to straighten the image. Or use Ptools for that.
Although this will create a 360 image, parts of it will be missing ( edges ).
I did a example for you ( using Peleng and 350d ) and shot the ceiling and you can see that it needs to cropped quite a bit.
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Smooth
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Location: Mount Panorama, Australia
Registered: 21 Jul 2004
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 30 Dec 2005 at 18:13 GMT
updated: 30 Dec 2005 at 18:14 GMT
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Walter,
What you are trying to do has been done many times before. You will need to take one down shot using a camera and lens that offers 180 degree circle. This can be done with a Nikon Coolpix fitted with a FC-E8 or FC-E9 Fisheye lens to match the camera model, or you can use your Peleng on an analogue SLR camera (scan the negative) or mate it to a full frame sensor DSLR like the Canon 5D/Canon 1Ds MKII etc.
Then using an up shot from a very tall building you can capture the sky. I have stitched this type of image before using an older version of Panoweaver that allowed stitching of horizontal fisheye shots, adding a little blur at the seam (which ends up the horizon helps making it realistic and seamless.
Here is thread from about 1 year ago on the Easypano forum. www.easypano.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?...
You can take a look at the bodgie attempt I put together at www.greatest.com.au/temp/aerial
Remember this was just an exercise to show others how it was done using borrowed images.
Hope the info is what you were after.
Regards, Smooth 
www.smooth360.com
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Walter Wellman
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Location: Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
Registered: 10 Mar 2005
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 30 Dec 2005 at 18:51 GMT
updated: 30 Dec 2005 at 18:52 GMT
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Smooth,
This is exactly the information I'm looking for. I'll have to hunt for the older version of PanoWeaver. When I finally get everything sorted out I'll post a few shots here for everyone to critique.
Thanks again
Walter
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Marcus
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Location: Somerset, United Kingdom
Registered: 6 Mar 2005
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michael przewrocki
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Location: basel, Switzerland
Registered: 19 Nov 2004
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Re: Aerial Fisheye pictures
Posted: 3 Jan 2006 at 2:06 GMT
updated: 3 Jan 2006 at 2:07 GMT
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michel dusariez of brussels has done a 360-rotapancam-aerial-kite-panorama, even using polaroidfilm.i think he used a 20mm-lenscam.but i have never seen it. he should display it using a shockwave-solution. which panorama-plugins/programs are using shockwave? shockwave can even be installed as restricted user in Iexplorer. as the only pano-plugin?
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