I think this is the first time I've seen the test subject smile.
Wide Angle vs 360 Panoramic Camera Tested
Published Jul 30, 2013 04:00 AM
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Comments (14)
Luis Carmona
Jul 30, 2013JH
John Honovich
Jul 30, 2013Derek's the only person happy to work at IPVM...
Ethan Ace
Jul 30, 2013Multiple people mentioned to me, "Why doesn't anyone smile in those shots?! They look like mugshots." and I told him about it. He's made it a point to smile since.
Derek Ward
Jul 30, 2013Who wouldn't be happy to work with a great group of professionals with such a great community?
DE
Dennis Eversole
Jul 30, 2013Thanks for illustrating something I have been telling Integrators since the Panoramics came out. The drastic drop in pixel density over distance makes them great for overview, but not so much for Facial or other ID uses.
JH
John Honovich
Jul 31, 2013Dennis, yes, indeed, it would even be a far more severe drop with a more 'typical' 60-80 degrees lens.
ST
Seth Thompson
Jul 31, 2013well in this economy id be glad to hold a sign up if you paid me to and i'd smile. not that i dont love my job but i was out of work for 6 months at one point and I would have loved to hold a sign for cash.... and did dressed as Uncle Sam. that was a great few weeks. so props to derek!
(im sure he does many things we just see him in the pics which mostly are fuzzy.....)
JH
John Honovich
Jul 31, 2013Nope, Derek 'Zoolander' Ward is just IPVM's male model.
Ethan Ace
Jul 31, 2013Blue Steel in every camera test.
ST
Seth Thompson
Jul 31, 2013do you have a female model to change the view up. lol
or get him to have a beard..... lol
TS
Tariq Saleh
Aug 03, 2013Would you compare the Arecont Vision 180 or 360 panoramic camera since it has 4 imagers each with 2MP
JH
John Honovich
Aug 03, 2013Tariq, multi-imager panoramics are definitely comparable to fisheye ones and wide angle lenses. We plan to do head to head tests later this year.
In this case, an Arecont 180 would cover a similar, but moderately wider, FoV to the Axis M3006. The details would likely be greater (because of the 4 imagers dividing the FoV into 45 degree quadrants). However, the price would be 2 or 3x times more. It would be a good test to do.
TS
Tariq Saleh
Aug 04, 2013I think the big advantage is that the 4 imagers camera will not have the curved wall issue. It will be interesting to see how the VMS will handle such camera.
JH
John Honovich
Aug 04, 2013Tariq, we have already tested an Arecont multi-imager camera - the 20MP version - see test here.
VMSes typically display them as 4 separate camera feeds. The user can then line then up side by side. It's not as seamless but you do not have the dewarping/stretching issues as demonstrated above.