We have just had to spend a portion of the budget on a patent agent, to make
sure we get this right and not mess up legally.
We have now found a real legal loop whole, which means as long as we produce
the results it in a set way, we will be ok legally.
Unfortunately though it does mean that the money for the patent agent is
either going to have to come out of my pocket, or something else has to
give, and I am going to reduce down the number of cameras, as this isn’t
really an attempt to recreate the quality of Hollywood, it is to make a web
quality flash movie so I can show it to future clients and hopefully sell it
to them. This will also allow me to build up the amount of cameras I can use
in the future.
But of course if I had the money for 100 DSLR cameras like Ikea, I would do
it that way, but I need to be realistic, and think what a nightclub is going
to pay and still make me profit.
I "borrowed" from my local photography store 5 of the cameras I will prob be
using a few days ago, and set them all up and took photographs of a stop
watch with the thousands of a second going, so I could see exactly what the
difference was between them. As long as you get the aperture and shutter
speed correct, and have it pre-focused, it was much smaller than I thought
it was going to be at less than a 1/4 of a second from the min to the max
time. We now have the money for about 40 cameras, which should still bring
some excellent results, but it is going to take a huge amount of time
setting it up, as if any one of the cameras is facing even tiny bit
different from another camera, it will ruin the effect completely.
Not to mention if they are actually all calibrated to take an image that
looks the same even on the exact same shutter speed and aperture setting.
But I suppose that’s why Photoshop was invented. I just know in the next 4
weeks I am going to have no hair and will be gibbering in the corner from
stress.
Ian
www.newworlddesigns.co.uk
www.quicktimevirtualreality.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Nyberg [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: 05 July 2007 12:59
To: quicktime-vr list
Subject: Re: 50 cameras
On Jul 5, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Ian Wood wrote:
>
> On 5 Jul 2007, at 12:37, Bradford Bohonus wrote:
>
>> The thing to solve most likely would be an equally cheap way to
>> mount and trigger them! Then getting the exposures consistent too.
>
> Triggering them being the problem. Pretty well all consumer
> digicams apars from dSLRs have horrendously unpredictable shutter
> lag. :-(
Some of the newest Canon DSLR can easy be triggered
simultaneously with USB cables or with a remote cable setup.
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-7899-8637
Hans
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