Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> wrote: >> In march of this year I did a VR shoot at the Australian War Memorial >> Museum in Canberra. >What's a VR shoot? Video or still film or what? Virtual Reality. I take a sequence of shots onto 35mm film with a 16mm Fisheye Elmarit R and then merge them together into a single, seamless 360-degree panoramic image. You then use a Java or browser plug-in player application to play back the image such that you end up standing inside the photograph. You can then interactively pan left or right or tilt up or down. I also program hotspots into each VR scene such that when a user clicks on them, they can get a close-up view (shot with 90mm Sumicron R, or now 100mm APO R). In the example I spoke of, the AWM Museum has thus put some of its exhibits online for others in Australia or the World to visit and explore. <www.awm.gov.au/virtualtour> Prior to July 98 I used Nikon(s) and Nikon glass to shoot this stuff, but after discovering Leica glass, dumped the Nikons pronto (except for the Nikon F2a, which I have since had modified to mount R lenses). I especially like the flare-resistance of the 16mm Elmarit. You can point it straight into the sun or interior spotlights and there is minimal flare(!) This gives me a *huge* competitive advantage when trawling for clients/ projects as most of my contemporaries are using rinky-dink digital cameras (in particular the Nikon 900/950) with their low-res, flare-prone toy lenses. The Leica-Advantage still cuts it in high-tech. ;?) Regds, Andrew Nemeth nemeng.com