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I'd love to use a bunch of these to build a "bullet time" camera array. Can anybody think of a cheaper/easier method?

• sdenton4 12y ago
  You could go with a good-sized pile of Raspberry Pi's with camera boards. $35+$25 for the Pi and camera board, plus the cost of sd cards and networking gear, probably still keeps you a bit under $100 per camera. Plus it's fully programmable, and easily sync'ed over the network.
  • fixedd 12y ago
    http://www.raspberrypi.org/frozen-pi-bullet-time-photography-with-the-raspberry-pi/ http://www.raspberrypi.org/frozen-pi-bullet-time-photography...
    • uptown 12y ago
      Great that they were able to accomplish it, but the "wow" factor with bullet-time is capturing a 3D view of some object that's typically in-motion, where freezing that motion allows you to view the object from all angles. The demos in that video somehow missed that concept completely, and show people sitting in poses that could either be in-motion, or intentionally stationary.
  • anigbrowl 12y ago
    Give me the Polaroids any day. The RPi stuff wouldn't survive a day in the field unless you put every one of them in an expensive enclosure, and it's just a ton of extra work that has been done for you in this case. You don't need sync, a regular slate will do that job and the rest can be done in software.
• mdturnerphys 12y ago
  Webcams.
• influx 12y ago
  I assume you have seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtAuflyc5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtAuflyc5w
  • lbotos 12y ago
    I hadn't! Thanks for sharing! This was my inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0x52u2yzgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0x52u2yzgI
• b1db77d2 12y ago
  You can get semi decent USB webcams for $3 US shipped. Get a box load and some USB hubs. Done.
  • lbotos 12y ago
    The Problem with webcams would be actually recording ~20 streams?