new digital pan camera

[Clayton Tume <tume@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any you guys or girls seen/used/bought one of these digital cameras?

 

Looking at the specs it's probably out of my price range.

 

Just done a job that was perfect for a stitched digital pan. I shot it with my Cirkut camera, 500mm lens, 160 degree pan.....the neg was just under 5 feet long.

 

The shot was a 2 long buildings, owner and equipment, cars trucks vans out the front, me across the other side of a busy 4 lane road waiting and waiting and waiting for a break in the traffic. Took 5 shots and the best I got was 5 blurred cars in it and of course the client wants them all out. Now I've got to convert it to a digital file and do some clean up.....it would have been sooooo easy to do it with an ordinary digital camera, shoot between the traffic and stitch it all together, would have saved lots of time.

 

Thinking about buying the Nikon 990 just for jobs like this, Bob E. I can see why you moved over to digital.

 

Clayton

 

> New digital panoramic camera
>
> British distributor Teamwork is announcing the availability of
> SpheronVR's new digital panoramic camera, the Panocam 12. The device
> rotates a full 360°around a vertical axis, producing image files of up
> to 100MB without stitching. The camera delivers high resolution images,
> with fast workflow times and is genuinely portable with a robust design,
> according to Teamwork. It can yield complete panoramas in less than 60
> seconds, is capable of working in low light conditions and able to
> operate 15 minute scan operations. The Panocam 12, which is designed for
> QuickTime VR work, produces resolutions of 2500 pixels per vertical
> line, with 16-bit colour per RGB channel. Light sensitivity is
> equivalent to ISO400 and exposure times range from 1/8000s up to 1/2s.
>
> (Read more in this week's printed issue of BJP)