Henri Smeets
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SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 7 Jan 2010 at 16:37 GMT
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Probably CrapTatstic 
Just Google it and see the latest on the subject!
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mediavets
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 7 Jan 2010 at 17:48 GMT
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Henri Smeets said: Probably CrapTatstic
Just Google it and see the latest on the subject!
I note it has a video head that rotates - vertically - 270 degrees, but I see nothing relating to 360 degree video.
Andrew
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Henri Smeets
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 7 Jan 2010 at 19:18 GMT
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The add-on lense needed to shoot the panoramic video, search on youtube to see some previews where the video part is discussed as well.
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Henri Smeets
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 7 Jan 2010 at 20:45 GMT
updated: 7 Jan 2010 at 20:47 GMT
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Here a screenshot showing the live feed left and the panoramic view right (below the panoview you see the fullview with a rectangle overlay for feedback-navigation.
Taken from this Youtube Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyyewflZOgA&translated=1
Surely no match to the LadyBug or Dodeca in quality or angular coverage but in price ($199) and ease-of-use an absolute winner!
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Doug Aurand
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 7 Jan 2010 at 22:01 GMT
updated: 7 Jan 2010 at 22:02 GMT
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Its not surprising that Sony is introducing a virtual video camera.
They bought most of iPIX's patents from the bankruptcy, inlcuding the ones involving 360° video.
Sony has been making moves toward the Security Camera business and iPIX's security cameras built around fisheye lenses that pan, tilt & zoom digitally with software have distinct advantages over cameras that mechanically pan, tilt & zoom.
Later
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
Later
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No One
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 7 Jan 2010 at 22:18 GMT
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The 360 version of Bloggie is only $189, cheap enough that I'm sure some small percentage of realtor's will buy this for their virtual tours.
But with only about a 50 degree vertical FOV and questionable playback presentation and perhaps a custom plug-in download required it may not have much of a impact here. Hard to say as the details on this are few, at least from what I've found so far.
O'well one more toy to buy and explore The 360 lens does look like perhaps an interesting form of mirror on a stick.
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Robert
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v360r
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TriggerHappY
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 8 Jan 2010 at 0:57 GMT
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Me Want!
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janmartin
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v360r
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v360r
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 20:42 GMT
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Looks like first stocks are due on 1st Feb. If anyone finds anything sooner, please let us know
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Pierre Gielen
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 22:30 GMT
updated: 13 Jan 2010 at 22:36 GMT
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It's 5 times as expensive as the Eye Candy (www.panascopia.com/) which I have tested on a video camera, and the image quality is just as bad!
Pierre
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janmartin
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Henri Smeets
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 22:55 GMT
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@ Jan Martin, sorry to burst your bubble (or lens) but the SONY does use a mirror, a double one, a parabolic bottom with a hole in it and one against the top. The Palnon lens would be too expensive for this gimmick!
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v360r
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Re: SONY Bloggie, 360 degree video!
Posted: 14 Jan 2010 at 0:37 GMT
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Pierre Gielen said: It's 5 times as expensive as the Eye Candy (www.panascopia.com/) which I have tested on a video camera, and the image quality is just as bad!
Pierre
Eye Candy didn't come with an HD video camera did it?
Have you got a sample of the Sony Bloggie's 360 lens?
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