Saturday, January 26, 2008

Spherocam

Even when I know I'll never use one, I still sometimes stroke my fetish for high-end products, like this one.

Mentioned before is the Red camera, which should ship soon. Laurie Jeffery told me he has ordered one. Interestingly, it seems a baby brother is on the way too.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very cool.

But how does it shoot directly under? A full sphere is needed for 3D reflection textures.

Alex said...

When the realtors started showing 360 views of houses I thought it was something like this, a rotating camera. however what they had was a strange lens attachment, it was a mirror fixed some distance from the lens, like this one

Granted it gives a hole at the top and bottom but is quite a full 360.

I wonder what they use for Google Maps streetview. If streetview doesn't work in your area look at San Francicsco. In particular, follow Lombard Street (about 1066 Lombard)down the wiggly stretch - great views of the Coit Tower, and you can see how well it zooms being up a bit.

Anonymous said...

Laurie Jeffery has a Red One on order?

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Yep, that's what I said. :)

Anonymous said...

You said "Red camera", an ambiguous reference. :)

Anonymous said...

Anyway, so that means you two can start shooting HD motion for DOMAI. No?

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Sometimes it's hard talking to programmers.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Laurie does as much video work as he does still photography, so access to pro video cameras has never been a barrier. My laziness is.

Hannah said...

Congratulations to Laurie. :)

Pascal [P-04referent] said...

"it seems a baby brother is on the way too."

I'm guessing this means a child to be born, not a miniature Red camera.
But I could be mistaken... ;-)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

You're mistaken.

Admittedly I was not being clear.

I was referring to the announced, but not specified, "Scarlet" camera, which should be as interesting to amateurs as the Red One is to pros.

The Red One is really, really highly specified. 4000-pixel resolution!! The highest HD is only 1080. So the Scarlet camera might be great for many uses, even real film making. And it should be much more compact and cheaper too.