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Canon Omnidirectional Camera Shoots Every Direction at Once

2010-09-02 16:21
Canon is showing off all sorts of crazy hardware at Canon Expo 2010 over in NYC. One of them is an omnidirectional camera (shown above) that shoots a 360В photograph in a single exposure. It creates the seamless panoramas using a 50 megapixel CMOS sensor and an aspheric mirror. Note that this is a 360 degree panorama on a single plane, as if you used a tripod and turned it in every direction. I wonder how long it will be until there 8217;s a camera that can literally shoot in every direction (i.e. up and down) to create a spherical panorama with single exposures. Maybe we 8217;ll have spherical sensors and cameras in the future that somehow levitate and beam photos wirelessly (via Gizmodo) Image credit: Photograph by Gizmodo
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