On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs.... > > On my drive home from San Luis Obispo today, I had the crazy idea that for > the price of a medium format camera, you could make a bracket that would > securely hold four (or more) relatively inexpensive DSLRs, with identical(*) > decent lenses, trigger them simultaneously, and use software to combine the > images into one extremely high resolution, or high dynamic range, image. This > would have the advantage of all of the shots being taken at the same time, > and for landscape photos, the parallax difference would likely be negligible. > > I'm curious of any one knows of any work along these lines... stitching > images from multiple cameras, taken at the same time, rather than a single > camera taken over a longer span of time. > > > * By identical I mean the same make and model, individual variation is > inevitable.
Ach, getting all those cameras to have a coincident focus setting, exposure setting, response curve, etc ... Getting the shutters to respond in sync ... you're going to slow down the picture making process by a bunch. Not a bad thing, but kind of a specialist endeavor. Even simple stereo cameras with two lenses/shutter systems (Stereo Realist, Stereo Rolleis from the 1920s and 1930s) show how important the distance between the optical centers of the lens systems can be. We can do more with processing nowadays. But it is an interesting thought exercise. I do remember seeing a video of a setup designed for some kind of capture effort that had a few dozen Canon 5Ds with identical lenses linked together for coordinated capture of a formula 1 car. The din of making the exposure was breathtaking. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
