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Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by discordance »

plugin-baby wrote: post #90
bentcorner wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone who is interested in older cameras I use a Canon Rebel T3i as a webcam and it works fantastically. In 2020 because of you-know-what Canon released a webcam driver for a bunch of their cameras and the T3i is one of the oldest ones supported (the most recent version of their driver drops support for this camera but older drivers work just fine). Paired with an AC power adapter and a mount for my monitor it's…

> because of you-know-what Canon released a webcam driver What is this alluding to? Bingle are not helping.

Pandemic lockdowns/ work from home

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by jononor »

copperx wrote: post #81
Auracle wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sitting in a hotel room before a wedding I’m going to photograph and I just laughed at this. Back when they were popular? (Practically?) Every new camera coming out is mirrorless. Every pro is moving to mirrorless. It won’t be all that long before you can’t even buy a new DSLR. Canon, Sony, and Nikon all have their own mount just as they always have. Canon and Nikon took the opportunity to make theirs larger/bett…

Why is mirrorless so popular? I haven't used one lately, but ten years ago the delay between seeing the image and capturing it was so great that it made them useless for people photography (unless people are posing, but I like to capture real emotions as they are happening). Are they better now? In my experience, the shutter lag must be close to 0 to be able to capture the right facial expression. Lag ruins pictures.

I think many shoot on burst mode for timing sensitive things? Don't need to time the one picture when one can take 5+ per second at full quality.

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by raverbashing »

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #8

That camera had an MSRP of $899 when it was new in 2006 [0]. Amazing that they now sell for only £50, and still take fantastic pictures even by today's standards [1]. Technological progress is nothing short of remarkable. [0] https://kenrockwell.com/canon/rebel-xti.htm [1] https://onfotolife.com/camera_sample_photos?camera_id=30&pag...

Yeah. And old camera might have some issues but not because of its release data (more because of usage and wear&tear)

These are definitely a good choice for taking good pictures

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by thih9 »

Wistar wrote: post #3

Pinnacle Effects in Spokane, WA did this for an ABC Sports Baseball promo in the late 80s using 60 point-and-shoot film cameras arranged in a 360° ring. Gerry Cook was the director and the guy who came up with the idea and physically created the “ring cam” as he called it. It was used to create a 2 second, 60 frame, scene of a pitch being thrown. The resulting shot was a little choppy but novel.

Is there a video of this somewhere?

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by jval43 »

copperx wrote: post #81
Auracle wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sitting in a hotel room before a wedding I’m going to photograph and I just laughed at this. Back when they were popular? (Practically?) Every new camera coming out is mirrorless. Every pro is moving to mirrorless. It won’t be all that long before you can’t even buy a new DSLR. Canon, Sony, and Nikon all have their own mount just as they always have. Canon and Nikon took the opportunity to make theirs larger/bett…

Why is mirrorless so popular? I haven't used one lately, but ten years ago the delay between seeing the image and capturing it was so great that it made them useless for people photography (unless people are posing, but I like to capture real emotions as they are happening). Are they better now? In my experience, the shutter lag must be close to 0 to be able to capture the right facial expression. Lag ruins pictures.

The Canon R5 has no lag at all. The EVF (a 1600x1200 120Hz OLED display with 100% coverage) feels as fast as an optical viewfinder, and the R5 can shoot 20fps with full autofocus tracking and without blacking out the viewfinder. Shutter lag is actually less than on DSLRs as there's no mirror to flip and electronics have gotten way faster in the last 10 years.

The newer ones like the Canon R3 are even faster and the Sony A1 can do 240fps in the EVF.

Another perk of EVFs: they're much brighter indoors as they simulate the actual exposure.

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by thih9 »

weinzierl wrote: post #40

The Insta360 can do bullet time video with minimal effort. Ok, it's no exactly the same as known from Matrix, but considering the simplicity it is pretty cool.

I didn't know what "simplicity" meant in this context, I looked at a tutorial [1] and saw instructions to swing the camera on a string, that's indeed surprisingly simple!

[1]: https://www.insta360.com/support/supportcourse?post_id=9466

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by lrem »

Auracle wrote: post #80
gmiller123456 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think the market is moving to mirrorless? I remember there was a craze when they first came out, but died out in a couple years. There still are a lot of good and "good for the price" mirrorless cameras available, but they certainly don't seem to be taking over the market. As an active photographer, I still see most people using DSLRs or their phone. Actually, everyone I know who bought into mirrorless act…

I’m sitting in a hotel room before a wedding I’m going to photograph and I just laughed at this. Back when they were popular? (Practically?) Every new camera coming out is mirrorless. Every pro is moving to mirrorless. It won’t be all that long before you can’t even buy a new DSLR. Canon, Sony, and Nikon all have their own mount just as they always have. Canon and Nikon took the opportunity to make theirs larger/bett…

> It won’t be all that long before you can’t even buy a new DSLR.

False! Pentax is sticking to DSLR ;)

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by elicash »

albroland wrote: post #9

There already is a company that rents out a system like this called the A-1 Array: https://www.array.cam/ I first saw this at an art installation in Brooklyn in 2017.

In the original video, he says he needs the wall to achieve the looping effect. But in this case, what's the reason it seems to need to be indoor, or within some kind of booth?

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by ineedasername »

These actually exist. My kids’ local grammar school rented one out for a sort of field-day event where parents could come too. A staff person from the rental outfit operated it. It was a single camera that rapidly spun around a small central platform, and at the end you entered your cell # and received a text message to view & download the result.

Re: There oughta be a bullet time video booth

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Post by jodrellblank »

Is there a way to make a cheapskate version using multiple mirrors and only one camera looking at all of them at once?

Then chopping the single capture into smaller frames one bit for each mirror, each with a different view of the subject, and stitch them into a video.

I can imagine a 3x1 layout but trying to arrange the mirrors in a curve so the camera sees a 3x3 or 4x4 or 5x5 arrangement might need some optical cleverness.

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