How do you get this 3D technique?

[Buel]

Hi all,

I know this is a video of a kids TV programme intro but it's the only frame of reference I can capture to show what I want - how can you get this footage / still in 'real life', please?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_APQnEP6ZQb4aXp_SjllcQePafwKzshY/view?usp=sharing

or:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_APQnEP6ZQb4aXp_SjllcQePafwKzshY/view?usp=sharing

[jagabo]

Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta5W47Q6wls

[Buel]

Wow. Thanks. However, that works for the video, but in my link, the video stops to a 360 still. Is that possible?

[jagabo]

That's usually done with multiple synchronized cameras and motion interpolation between the views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggpMa707tU

You just freeze the view from all the cameras and rotate through them.

[dellsam34]

Yah that technique is too expensive to produce, I've always wondered if it can be done on the cheap but I guess not as of yet, The drones and camera sizes solved the helicopter budget so any amateur can take stunning areal shots with a $300 drone but 360 spin is still not within everyone's budget. The spinning camera is an option but it has its limitations in terms of camera speed vs camera shutter speed and the light conditions and the dimensions of the scene in question.

[Buel]

Thanks for this. Perhaps a drone (I have one) doing a circle around me / a person would also work?

[jagabo]

Thanks for this. Perhaps a drone (I have one) doing a circle around me / a person would also work?

If you can hold still for the shot. It won't work if you want to jump and have the camera rotate around you while you float in mid air.

[Buel]

Hmmmm....good point! I'll have to think about how to rig up such a thing as in that brilliant video. Question - any idea of what sort of spec video camera would be needed for results as good as his?

[dellsam34]

If this technique is important to you it can be built with a multi camera system with off the shelf lenses and imaging sensors but you will have to do the task of connecting them to a system and timing them together, It can be done around an Arduino system for example, the hardware should not cost that much. The tighter the scene the less cameras needed.

[Buel]

If this technique is important to you it can be built with a multi camera system with off the shelf lenses and imaging sensors but you will have to do the task of connecting them to a system and timing them together, It can be done around an Arduino system for example, the hardware should not cost that much. The tighter the scene the less cameras needed.

Apologies, I mean the set up in the YouTube vid - the revolving turntable, etc. What sort of quality camera would be needed?

[ChapmanDolly]

The technique is called timeslice. If you Google "timeslice photography" you will find plenty of posts.
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[dellsam34]

Apologies, I mean the set up in the YouTube vid - the revolving turntable, etc. What sort of quality camera would be needed?

The faster the the arm the better so you will be looking at camera's that have very sensitive sensors (the highest shutter speed possible), A slow motion cam will be perfect but they are not cheap.

[dellsam34]

The technique is called timeslice. If you Google "timeslice photography" you will find plenty of posts.

No, it's the opposite of time slice, You don't want to slice the time, what you want is to slice the position in theatrically zero time or the time it takes to take one shot. With a revolving camera it takes few seconds and several shots, with multiple camera's it takes one shot.