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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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- 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