Researchers of the Johannes Kepler University lwa t in the Austrian Linz have the advantage of panoramic photos made possible on a commercially available lightfield camera. The focus of the panorama, afterwards, to determine.
The method to make panoramic photos by using a lightfieldcamera works in principle the same as in conventional cameras. By the camera to rotate about one or two axes are different recordings are made, which to a large panoramic picture to be processed. Instead of megapixels in the lightfield camera, however, ‘megarays’ collected.
The researchers from the university in Linz are now managed with the aid of a commercially available R11C-lightfield camera from Raytrix various lightfield footage together to make a panoramic picture, where it is possible to just as in normal lightfield-pictures afterwards to focus.
The resulting lightfield-panorama consists of a total of 22 megapixels with a resolution of 17.885 at 1.275 pixels. If camera is the R11C-lightfield-camera of the company Raytrix. This has a 2d resolution of 3 megapixels. Due to the lightfield technology, it is also possible to take the panoramic photos in anaglyph-3d.
The technology used still has a number of disadvantages. It works only for compositions with diffuse lighting conditions, and the technology can’t cope with lichtbrekingen and blikveldafhankelijke reflections.