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Test Footage of very low cost 8K (4K per eye stereo) (almost) VR180 camera system

Test Footage of very low cost 8K (4K per eye stereo) (almost) VR180 camera system

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2 years ago

Due to the Vision Pro, I have been looking at solutions for providing high quality 4K per eye, stereo VR180 content. Currently the only thing out there that is capable of 4K per eye at 60fps, is the Canon VR180 Creative system, but it will set you back at least $5000. All other solutions are 6K or less, and then only 30fps. Until now...

I have been looking at several ways to get 4K per eye semi-hemispherical with something 1" or greater images sensor, but sadly larger the sensor, the higher the cost. I even managed cram two Panasonic u4/3 compact cameras with fisheye lenses, but the process was very clunky and required the cameras fitted upside down from each other. Even then, I couldn't get the bodies closer than 70mm lens distance (IPD). I gave up until...

I found these cameras, (which will remain a mystery until I finish the enclosure and the workflow in DaVinci Resolve and Adobe After Effects). That not only provide a decent FOV, but can do 4K at 60fps. Even better there is CineD log and some manual controls. Negative - 100mbps HEVC encoding only.

The footage seen was brought into DaVinci and along with the the free open source KaraVR tools to map video onto semi-hemispherical plane and further lens corrected the Brown constants I created from a test pattern. Color was regraded using a free CineD luts and slightly detailed-sharpened and noise reduced for compression & the inadvertent ISO600 setting, which also accounts for the extra noise.