Shot my Flash Car 28 times

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Yes, this time I shot 28 images of my car... about 6 were Intermediate action images like zoom in/out and open/close doors etc.

here are the specifications

Canon 350d [XT Rebel] Canon 10 - 22 EF-s @10mm zoomed in @22mm AV mode F/8
28 images RAW 2304 x 3456 between 9 - 14mb each

Adobe Camera RAW Converter 2304 x 3456 converted to 1 - 4mb each adjusted the White Balance on all images

Used Thomas's thumbnail generator 'Kiss MyImage' to output to 600 h x 400 w image set 76.5kb each image

Used Object2VR trial version to create Flash Object .swf

Preparation: Placed the car in an open area. Car length 14.36 feet (4.38m) width 5.6 feet (1.7m) height 4.7 feet (1.34m)
Electrical cord 100 feet (30m)
Tripod legs - 2 in front 1 in back near Electrical cord
Camera distance from edge of car 56 inches or near 2 meters

Made no attempt to equally space images around the electrical cord. Essentially picture 1 was front on center, 2 45 degrees to right and so on all around the car. All images were effective 35mm equivelent @10mm @1.6 crop factor = 16mm. Zoom in = 35mm.

Settings used:

Portrait 400 x 600
Frame Rate 50
Gray Scale Qulaity 25
Res 1:4
Auto Rotate 0.10 manually entered the value [default is 1.0 click down 1 and it is 0.0]
Zoom Enabled Default 1 max 1 Center 0 x 0 [effectively no zoom]
Stock Controller_0object_popup.ggsk
Flash 9
Used standard .htm output file
Output is 1.4mb and has the ability to click to go FULL screen

Observations: rotation is very choppy. Adding more in between images will make rotation smoother and also make the .swf MB size larger. Might add more images but revise the single images down to 240 x 480 ? Sun/clouds made it difficult for maintaining exposure.

You may see result : http://360texas.com/services/objects/index.htm

General information - Acura is made by Honda. The car is a 1998 Acura Integra 4 cylinder. License Plate is [360Texas] Yes, we have 2 identical models - my wife likes hers. License Plate is [360Texas2]

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Great we saved 24 pictures from a Desktop running Ubuntu 8.10 Linux .
You can translate the Swedish blog int English with Google translate the first picture on this page are an VR :D
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Svendus,

I am not sure what you are asking ? Making object2VR ?
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Is that electric wire or water pipe around the car?
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The orange object is an electric 'extension' cable 30 meters long. Actually this 30 meters is too long. Car is not big.

Also you can use a 30 meter water pipe we call a flexible hose.

Anything that will make a circle around the car so that we can put a tripod to be equal distance from car center all around the car.
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