June 28, 2010 at 01:22Krugokamera: History and analogues
For a better understanding of what and how I am doing for my Circle Camera, we will devote this article to the theory of circular shooting and showing.
What happened before - a chicken or an egg?
Where to start - with the shooting or with the show ?!
For some reason, Krugorama sincerely believes that the “chicken” celebrates the cinema’s birthday in the month of April, when the cinema seemed to be completed and something was shown, but the shooting of the first film was in full swing and the team was sticking out somewhere in the Caucasus ...
I also think that all the same the “egg” is more paramount: in order to show something, it is necessary to REMOVE this for starters!
But ... I’ll give a story to begin with:
I will skip about photo cameras for shooting panoramas - articles on this topic in bulk!
And we will start with ...
This miracle was demonstrated at the Paris World Exhibition. The first camera for the first circular cinema filmed on BW film with 10 movie cameras.
She was still a fool:
The camera in the picture on the left - three men are twisting together the handle of a mechanical movie camera ...
About the Cineorama we know that she worked already for three sessions - as a result, one of the projectionists received a heat stroke in the workplace from overheating of the equipment and the cinema was covered The
hall was 100 meters in diameter and located under the Eiffel Tower. The decoration of the hall was a “balloon gondola”, under which the control room was located.
Disney used 11 Kodak cameras and 16 mm color film.
Unfortunately, the photos of that first camera were not preserved.
Of the minuses - 16 mm film did not give the best picture ...
In the cinema, screens with a standard aspect ratio and slots between the screens through which the screen was displayed were used:
Made to the peak of Disney, which Khrushchev boasted of his creation.
To catch up and overtake - in three months a building was built with 22 screens and 22 projectors.
The screens were of a standard ratio, but placed in two rows one above the other.
Further information is not entirely accurate, because according to some sources - all 22 screens were used at the same time, but on the other hand, according to the recollections of Vasily Katayan, one of the directors of the first domestic film, they shot with 11 cameras and 11 films !!!
According to fragmentary information, the show was run on 11 screens, and 11 additional ones were used for animated inserts, titles, etc.
This is what the domestic “bandura” looked like - 11 pieces of 35 mm Konvas cameras:
11 cameras and screens were a compliment to Disney: if you wanted, you could exchange films between countries, but ...
Disney was offended and entered the Cold War ...
Disney's answer was "furious and merciless": in 1960 they switched to work from 9 cameras and screens, which put an end to the exchange of films ...
Ours shrugged and showed “Kuzkin’s mother”:
Our scientists thought, thought, and then threw out half of the projectors, made the screens solid in height and used anamorphic nozzles for cameras and projectors.
Actually, this is what everyone can now see at the All-Russian Exhibition Center: shooting and showing, as before, go to a 35 mm film with a standard frame ratio, but ...
... When shooting, an anamorphic lens is put on each camera, which doubles on a standard frame higher picture!
When shown, the projector does the same thing, “pushing” the picture back.
This gave a film saving in half and an amazing sight: the picture ceased to be “clamped” in height!
For comparison, the film screening on Disney and our systems:
"Feel the difference!"
The cameras used and used by Disney Studios now are more or less known:
Film cameras (now they use digital cameras) that look at the world through mirrors or prisms (in different models).
What does it give?
In the theory of panoramic photography, there is such a term as “parallax error” that arises if the camera when shooting frames for a panorama is not rotated around the “optical axis” of the camera ...
With our shooting method, the error is noticeable due to the brutal diameter of the camera.
In Disney - due to the fact that the cameras are "rotated" at 90 degrees - they are shifted much closer to the optical center, as a result, there is almost no error ...
Actually on this, you can complete the excursion into history, because Until now, the war was “positional” and little has changed: the
Disney system was more common due to film savings, ours had more films due to state support ...
There were almost no other players in this market ...
What has changed now?
First of all - the availability of digital solutions!
Now every fool can afford to buy a video camera, projector, computer, and all-that-soul-wish!
Previously, the “divided” market for circular cinema was ignored for some time by everyone, and then it “broke through”.
Who is “to blame” first - now no longer understand, but a bunch of new players appeared abruptly!
Solutions are both home-made and “professional”. The number of cameras varies from 4 to 8, some manage to be implemented by 2 or even one ...
Examples:
Research camera.
Industrial, marketed design. Writes to a laptop or computer connected via FireWire, has 5 cameras around the perimeter and 1 on top. All cameras with Fisheye.
11 cameras placed on the "ball".
The most “brilliant” solution - the camera
I mentioned about it in a previous article: the blockage for this model was “only” FullHD camera resolution - for shooting with a similar lens its resolution was more than enough ...
Demo of possibilities
For comparison - the video taken from the helicopter on Ledybug 2
And the video from Haiti after the earthquake on Sonya
IMHO - Sonya does not pull!
That is why I decided to use the multi-chamber version ...
Perhaps the only circular cinema that they are trying to sell ! Moreover, the site is even in Russian, including English and German!
Also an industrial design , but these are not sold, but leased.
Plus several more similar systems, which have one common detail:
They use 6 pieces of projectors with a smooth connection of transitions.
Distinctive is
Here, 8 pieces of 57 inch flat displays are used and a picture from Google Earth and Google Street is projected.
What to do if you really want to see, but there is no money to buy such equipment, there is nowhere to put it, and it breaks to go to the nearest movie theater?
Naturally look at the computer!
IMHO - the most advanced of these players. You can configure a bunch of parameters, twist on a ball, cylinder, etc., play video of almost any format and perversion - at least a “ribbon”, even a Sonevsky “planetary” recording.
Demos can be viewed on their website.
This, of course, is ridiculous, but ...
The DVD format supports the so-called. “A lot of foreshortening”, when a movie or a piece of it can be viewed from different points of view: on this, in particular, the “directorial” versions of the film with explanatory drawings, etc. are based.
Just while watching, you see “shooting from the audience” from some angle, but you can “turn your head” by switching to another “camera” ...
I missed and did not spread some other materials that are not so curious or not very innovative ...
What happened before - a chicken or an egg?
Where to start - with the shooting or with the show ?!
For some reason, Krugorama sincerely believes that the “chicken” celebrates the cinema’s birthday in the month of April, when the cinema seemed to be completed and something was shown, but the shooting of the first film was in full swing and the team was sticking out somewhere in the Caucasus ...
I also think that all the same the “egg” is more paramount: in order to show something, it is necessary to REMOVE this for starters!
But ... I’ll give a story to begin with:
Firstborn Circular Filming
I will skip about photo cameras for shooting panoramas - articles on this topic in bulk!
And we will start with ...
1900, France, Grimoine-Samson, "Cineorama"
This miracle was demonstrated at the Paris World Exhibition. The first camera for the first circular cinema filmed on BW film with 10 movie cameras.
She was still a fool:
The camera in the picture on the left - three men are twisting together the handle of a mechanical movie camera ...
About the Cineorama we know that she worked already for three sessions - as a result, one of the projectionists received a heat stroke in the workplace from overheating of the equipment and the cinema was covered The
hall was 100 meters in diameter and located under the Eiffel Tower. The decoration of the hall was a “balloon gondola”, under which the control room was located.
1955 year. USA, Disney, The Circus
Disney used 11 Kodak cameras and 16 mm color film.
Unfortunately, the photos of that first camera were not preserved.
Of the minuses - 16 mm film did not give the best picture ...
In the cinema, screens with a standard aspect ratio and slots between the screens through which the screen was displayed were used:
1959 year. USSR, Goldovsky, “Circular Cinema Panorama”
Made to the peak of Disney, which Khrushchev boasted of his creation.
To catch up and overtake - in three months a building was built with 22 screens and 22 projectors.
The screens were of a standard ratio, but placed in two rows one above the other.
Further information is not entirely accurate, because according to some sources - all 22 screens were used at the same time, but on the other hand, according to the recollections of Vasily Katayan, one of the directors of the first domestic film, they shot with 11 cameras and 11 films !!!
According to fragmentary information, the show was run on 11 screens, and 11 additional ones were used for animated inserts, titles, etc.
This is what the domestic “bandura” looked like - 11 pieces of 35 mm Konvas cameras:
11 cameras and screens were a compliment to Disney: if you wanted, you could exchange films between countries, but ...
Disney was offended and entered the Cold War ...
Disney's answer was "furious and merciless": in 1960 they switched to work from 9 cameras and screens, which put an end to the exchange of films ...
Ours shrugged and showed “Kuzkin’s mother”:
1965 year. USSR, Goldovsky and Timofeev, "The circular film panorama" v2
Our scientists thought, thought, and then threw out half of the projectors, made the screens solid in height and used anamorphic nozzles for cameras and projectors.
Actually, this is what everyone can now see at the All-Russian Exhibition Center: shooting and showing, as before, go to a 35 mm film with a standard frame ratio, but ...
... When shooting, an anamorphic lens is put on each camera, which doubles on a standard frame higher picture!
When shown, the projector does the same thing, “pushing” the picture back.
This gave a film saving in half and an amazing sight: the picture ceased to be “clamped” in height!
For comparison, the film screening on Disney and our systems:
"Feel the difference!"
Disney cameras
The cameras used and used by Disney Studios now are more or less known:
Film cameras (now they use digital cameras) that look at the world through mirrors or prisms (in different models).
What does it give?
In the theory of panoramic photography, there is such a term as “parallax error” that arises if the camera when shooting frames for a panorama is not rotated around the “optical axis” of the camera ...
With our shooting method, the error is noticeable due to the brutal diameter of the camera.
In Disney - due to the fact that the cameras are "rotated" at 90 degrees - they are shifted much closer to the optical center, as a result, there is almost no error ...
Actually on this, you can complete the excursion into history, because Until now, the war was “positional” and little has changed: the
Disney system was more common due to film savings, ours had more films due to state support ...
There were almost no other players in this market ...
Our days
What has changed now?
First of all - the availability of digital solutions!
Now every fool can afford to buy a video camera, projector, computer, and all-that-soul-wish!
Previously, the “divided” market for circular cinema was ignored for some time by everyone, and then it “broke through”.
Who is “to blame” first - now no longer understand, but a bunch of new players appeared abruptly!
Cameras
Solutions are both home-made and “professional”. The number of cameras varies from 4 to 8, some manage to be implemented by 2 or even one ...
Examples:
Flyabout
Research camera.
Ladybug 2
Industrial, marketed design. Writes to a laptop or computer connected via FireWire, has 5 cameras around the perimeter and 1 on top. All cameras with Fisheye.
Immersive media
11 cameras placed on the "ball".
All kinds of mirror mounts on the lens
The most “brilliant” solution - the camera
Sony Bloggie with Panoramic Lens
I mentioned about it in a previous article: the blockage for this model was “only” FullHD camera resolution - for shooting with a similar lens its resolution was more than enough ...
Demo of possibilities
For comparison - the video taken from the helicopter on Ledybug 2
And the video from Haiti after the earthquake on Sonya
IMHO - Sonya does not pull!
That is why I decided to use the multi-chamber version ...
Cinemas
360 movie
Perhaps the only circular cinema that they are trying to sell ! Moreover, the site is even in Russian, including English and German!
igloo
Also an industrial design , but these are not sold, but leased.
Video installation with Q3 on a circular screen
Plus several more similar systems, which have one common detail:
They use 6 pieces of projectors with a smooth connection of transitions.
Distinctive is
Google holodeck
Here, 8 pieces of 57 inch flat displays are used and a picture from Google Earth and Google Street is projected.
Software players
What to do if you really want to see, but there is no money to buy such equipment, there is nowhere to put it, and it breaks to go to the nearest movie theater?
Naturally look at the computer!
Riubin`s Flash Panorama
IMHO - the most advanced of these players. You can configure a bunch of parameters, twist on a ball, cylinder, etc., play video of almost any format and perversion - at least a “ribbon”, even a Sonevsky “planetary” recording.
Demos can be viewed on their website.
DVD
This, of course, is ridiculous, but ...
The DVD format supports the so-called. “A lot of foreshortening”, when a movie or a piece of it can be viewed from different points of view: on this, in particular, the “directorial” versions of the film with explanatory drawings, etc. are based.
Just while watching, you see “shooting from the audience” from some angle, but you can “turn your head” by switching to another “camera” ...
P.S
I missed and did not spread some other materials that are not so curious or not very innovative ...