I want to mount my camera in a similar setup! =O

Posted at 1:41 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by Andrew

wouldn’t work for objects that are close to the camera.

Posted at 1:49 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by pDitty

bullshit

Posted at 2:02 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by dummsau

We planned to create our own platform to rotate around the nodal point, since this would eliminate Parallax error. However, due to budgetary reasons we used a CCTV platform. As long as you’re not making a panorama of a distance far away such as a city scape the distortion is minimized.

Posted at 2:11 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by Ewout

Edit on the previous comment…

“As long as you ARE making a panorama of a distance far away such as a city scape the distortion is minimized.”

Sorry for the error.

Posted at 2:12 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by Ewout

Wow, imagine how detailed a close-up image would look. Then Imagine what a pain in the ass it would be to make that work properly.

Posted at 2:18 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by icefox

Now just invent a system which can do this with long exposures whilst dynamically tracking a star field at night. I don’t know what purpose it would serve, but I’m sure it would be cool.

Posted at 3:08 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by jim

All this shows is that advanced technology =/= good photographs.

Posted at 3:21 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by bob

now do the same thing, but with a large format scanning back camera:
http://www.betterlight.com/fullRes_zoomifyLIST.html

hello terapixels!

Posted at 3:36 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by will d.

Doesn’t Microsoft claim this is easy under Vista in their latest commercials?

Posted at 4:20 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by TheFu

the parallax issue can be resolved by simply making a quick extension that allows it to rotate around the focal point. It could be as simple as a scrap piece of wood extending off the back.

Posted at 4:31 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by calebkraft

But then you’re still not rotating around the focal point in both axes.

Posted at 4:33 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by Ewout

Stop posting flash-only content.

Tards.

Posted at 4:48 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by aka-44

“Is Hack a Day part of the class curriculum?”

I guess you could say it is since the class curriculum is right on topic with this website. A number of 4180 project have been on this website in the past. Also, I know a lot of current and former students (such as myself) love Hack-A-Day.

Go hack-a-day and go jackets!

Posted at 4:48 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by hellofanengineer

Did anyone else find the naked woman in the apartment building in the middle?

Posted at 6:27 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by jose

That’s cool, xres has some really cool Yosemite Gigapixel pictures… you can even use em to plan your climbing routes :-P

Posted at 10:15 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by mattaphore

Very Nice! Gotta love the view from the south parking deck at north ave apartments!

Posted at 11:09 pm on Dec 10th, 2008 by answr42

This looks like more amateur setup of gigapan. Check out http://www.gigapan.org/

Posted at 8:25 am on Dec 11th, 2008 by zack

Just buy a Red camera and stitch the stills together later…. i think that would be faster as well. Some of the projects on hack a day are completely impractical – this is one of them.

Posted at 9:57 am on Dec 11th, 2008 by neil

pditty, Mounting a camera nodally will eliminate any parallax issues. I built a very similar camera head a few weeks ago. Mine is nodally mounted though it sounds like the one in this article has better software in that it figures out how many pictures are needed. Mine just takes an array of pictures that always have the same number of pictures per row. That isn’t necessary for rows looking close to straight up or straight down.

Next step for my camera is to make it a digital slit scan… I’m not quite sure how to deal with all of the data that I would generate. Each picture will be about 300 megabytes without compression. I’m looking at embedded Linux computers because those processors can probably deal with that amount of info in a reasonable time.

Posted at 11:08 am on Dec 11th, 2008 by Jack Buffington

Hey Neil, why don’t you get a life and appreciate a project for the accomplishment instead of trying to overcompensate for yourself, thanks.

Posted at 5:45 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by Chris

Hey neil — good luck taking 200+ images to stitch them later, this is why we built it. It’s not practical to do by hand.

Posted at 7:50 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by Ewout

Can you say “it’s Where’s Waldo time!”.

Posted at 9:42 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by Beef Wellington

This is great. I don’t know what the critics are on about ‘impractical’. Its fully automated, how isn’t it practical?!

Source code is available, all that there needs to be now is a build log!

Nicely done.

Posted at 11:31 pm on Dec 13th, 2008 by Kamu

After see this i just say this SUPERB

Posted at 12:29 am on Dec 14th, 2008 by Syed Shams Ali

Ive done this with some success making a bracket from aluminum bar stock to allow camera to rotate around the “nodal point”. Biggest problem I’ve encountered is exposure. Brightness often varies over a tremendous range when you are outside on a clear day using sunlight.

Posted at 1:55 am on Oct 1st, 2009 by Clare Love