HawaiiHans wrote:

Has anyone seen the 360's on the Space Ibiza website?  Here's the link http://www.spaceibiza.com/en/media/fotos-360o.html

It doesn't look like there's any stitching as there's way too much movement in a club.  Are they using somesort of single shot camera?

Speedmode needs extremely short exposure-time. Can you imagine using 1/500-1000sec in this location? Too much movement, people would have bee split and blurred.

I´d say a single release using an array of cameras to cover a sphere in one shot. 6 GoPro, 3 or 4 Nikons w. fisheyes or a parabolic mirror for axample.

The flares from the stage light seem to implicate a rig of GoPros or a mirror.

Klaus

Last edited by klausesser (2012-12-30 22:37:48)

there are stitching errors if you look for them, but overall they did a pretty good job here

these were most likely shot w a full frame dslr + 180° circular fisheye with 4 images around using short exposure & high iso

like this, Nikon D800 + Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved) on Nodal Ninja R1, 4 images around @ 0° tilt capture the entire 360x180 sphere

http://www.samrohn.com/360-panorama/low … -blackout/

this was shot at iso 1600 with 15 - 30 second exposures during a blackout, i prefer dark and empty to crowded and noisy personally

for a low light high action party pano you would want to shoot no slower than around 1/30 sec at whatever iso was required, shoot more images & angles than you need for some options on masking, poses and faces, and careful masking while stitching

you would not want to use a robot in an environment like a dance party, no way it could possibly keep up w the action, lights, dancing, etc

slit scanning cameras like seitz roundshot would also not work here, such a camera requires a static environment, any moving objects will "smear" like moving your hand across a scanner while it is scanning

one shot mirrors give very low quality panos and cannot cover more than about 110° vertically

multiple DSLRs shooting simultaneously would have parallax issues in a tight environment like a DJ booth, multi gopro rig would have exposure issues in this enviroment due to gopro's lack of manual exposure control

sam

Last edited by Sam Rohn (2012-12-31 08:03:36)

Actually Chris I think they used a very scientific piece of technology in order to veiw the laptop... I think they call it an Umbrella..

http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera

Perhaps they used this.   Perfect blending, perfect pano.. If I was them I would go out and buy a Girocam.. If they can find one that hasn't been turned into a toilet brush holder.. they don't have to worry about me stealing their patents... If I had one I would kick it off the pier.. I wonder if it floats..

One thing is certain.. Its not a mirror ball. Possible its a cameras array but very expensive and technically challenging to set up, so I doubt it.. I would put my money on the Seitz, LizardQ or the RODDEN. Software can fix up the ghosting..

I remember someone posting up a great pano of a bike ride going past with hundreds of people in crowds.. I think that a VR Drive was used but cannot remember..

Destiny..

That is defenitly a full frame with something very wide - Stiching errors are there. There were probably more errors after the initial stitching but if you stich psd with layers they may be well corrected.
The problem here is not the lack of lightiing or people moving but the moving light projectors that change colors - that is something very hard for stitching.

It is not so hard if you use a full frame with 8 or 10 mm (preferably shaved) and stitch into PSD with layers.

asiavr wrote:

No need to invest any expensive equipments. 
The disco invite all party animals or regular to go to their disco one day with free entrance...
Before the party begins, ask all of them to frezze 5 sec for the photograhper to take a pano.   
just require a bit of coordination of the crowd only. 

That´s why they all look like sleeping . . .

best, Klaus

Nope.... looks like you are well on your way to creating a dogs dinner...

Good luck!    

If I were to attempt it.. I would set up my VR Drive with a full frame fisheye, D800, X 4 shots at -30, or even -45, and set it to speed mode and let it fire off at least four goes round but at different start degree points, and one perhaps 2 X 4 + 30 or 45... Drop the lot into apg and see.... With the new ghosting tool it might work...

Destiny...