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70 Megapixel Webcam
Alien54 writes "Small swiss company RoundShot has released an interesting new item, the 360 internet Livecam. The Livecam is a digital 360 camera, capable of 70 megapixels. The Swiss company claims the Roundshot Livecam uses a high-resolution digicam designed for pro photography, as well as slit-scan technology, which apparently allows for 'seamless panoramas' of up to 360 degrees. The cam is also capable of a high zoom factor, zooming up to 20x. Apparently, the cam has 'far-reaching" applications, most importantly in tourism, weather stations, corporate websites, airports, sports clubs, construction sites and private residences.'"
They seem to be big into panoramas. Check out their gallery
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Is this really 70 megapixels? The press release is short on details, but I'm guessing their "slit scan" technology is simply a traditional line-scan camera mounting on a revolving shaft. In this case the camera would use a CCD that is a single line of pixels, instead of an array like conventional cameras. Line-scan cameras have been used in industry when high resolution is important (the chief tradeoff is speed, since scanning a full image requires moving the camera or the object).
Livecams are so low res that they are no good except for determining weather conditions.
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Well, it could go up to 360^2, though you would be hard pressed to keep the camera out of that picture. You could also venture out into t, leading to 360 T shots. You could also mount it on a movable platform of some sort, and get X, Y, and Z values, though for comparatively limited values of X Y and Z. And for that matter the spectrum values could be modulated more than it already is, leading to a potential Lambda range, as well as temperature, audio, and alpha beta gamma radiation detection.
Thus, the panoramic camera could be 360^2TXYZLTmpVArBrGr.
It probably wouldn't have fit in a press release, though.
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Yeah, I know, it would take days for one image to come down, but man.. Compared to the seemingly crappy 0.000005 Megapixel cams they put on those things now.. Could you imagine how awesome those images would be? It would be worth sending a probe there with one of these mounted on it for nothing more than taking a 70MP panaramic shot. Seriously.
- Hugin is getting really good as a frontend for panotools. It'll be really great when alpha layers become available too!
- Getting the camera to take remote piccies is possible as well (although getting access to all the manual parameters maybe a problem -- no luck there with my canon a40)
- A stepper motor and its RS-232 interface is not that expensive or hard to find anymore (50 quid at Milford instruments).
- Or... you can build your own out of a floppy drive connected to the parallel port. Maybe a better solution, the milford stuff is getting pretty hot after a while and requires 9-15V
The question remains: How do you attact the stepper shaft to the camera? (I mean other than duct tape or lego)It would be nice to have a 90degree bent bracket as well to take piccies vertically.
Has anybody built a tripod like this? What did you guys use?
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Why call it a webcam and not a camera - the only thing that makes a webcam a webcam is the crappy resolution, to accomodate the bad bandwidth that goes along with the "web" part.
~Berj
Buy one of the latest prosumer camera's like the Coolpix 8700
then attach a Panoramic Optic from 0-360.com
and you have and 8-Megapixel panoramic solution for about $1500.
smile, it makes everyone else wonder what you're up to