City - Bebaigawara State - TOKYO, FUCHU CITY Country - Japan
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One problem of would-be immersive panoramas taken like this one, with four circular fisheye shots, is that the perspective is exaggerated. I waited to catch a train going past the end of the lane (central to the image) but you can barely see it. When you can zoom into the image and pan around in it, this difficulty vanishes... but that needs facilities Usefilm doesn't yet support.
The "great divide" in panorams is between those that, however wide they look, actually limit the FOV to about 90 degrees, certainly no more than 100, and preserve the rectangularity of the image on the flat image--usually at the expense of increasingly serious spatial distortion near the edges--and those that sacrifice rectangularity to give FOV up to 180 degrees in a single shot or up to 360 degrees either in a single shot (using a rotary camera) or by stitching multiple images.
There's a borderline area between the two that I like to explore, in which fisheye or swing-lens cameras are used to give FOVs too high for rectangularity (typically 130 degrees or so) but by cunning selection of where the straight lines run through the image, can be made to appear more "normal."
I am finding that with 360-degree panoramas, there is a big difference between those that work as flat images, as the above appears to do, and those that work best, or indeed only, when viewed with VR software.
Thanks for your interest, Shaeed. I already have a nice domain name for such a site--"Rogerama.jp," but no time to put it up. One day, perhaps... You are right that it is a 360-degree panorama, but with the very distorted top and bottom cut off to make a more normal "flat" display.
Hi,Roger Is this 360° panorama capture. If yes, as UF not providing the facility yet, do you have your own personal website. if yes again then it is the best way to make a reference to that site so the interested ones can at least see it in live. am sure it is great work and subject here but pity the image can not give justice. Saeed
Continuing our previous discussion, I think this photo provides some new insights, at least for me. The exaggerated perspective is the thing that makes this photo tick for me; eventhough we cannot zoom in yet, I don't really think it's necessary, unless one wants to examine the finer details. That's not the thing I'm most interested in, though. To me, the perspective pulls the photo out of the ordinary, and the panoramic feature creates multiple vanishing points, which you normally wouldn't be able to capture in a single shot. That also adds to the appeal of the photo. To me, this scene outclasses the previous one where the "suitability for panoramics" is concerned. Very interesting stuff!
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