German company announces stereoscopic pano cam
By
Michael R. Tomkins, The Imaging Resource
(Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 23:35 EDT)
A German manufacturer by the name of Dr. Clauss Bild- und Datentechnik GmbH has announced a stereoscopic panoramic digital camera at Photokina.
The Karline Digital Stereoscopic Panoramic Camera has a fixed focus 13mm lens that captures a vertical field of view of 90 degrees, and uses a 2 x 2048 pixel linear sensor and a motorised drive mechanism to capture up to a 360-degree panorama. The image is captured over a parallel port interface, and the necessary software is included, as well as a battery and charger / AC adapter.
The Karline Digital Stereoscopic Panoramic Camera costs €4990 excluding tax. More details from the spec sheet follow:
| Karline Digital Stereoscopic Panoramic Camera | | | | Lens: | | Fixed focus f = 13 mm(vertical angle 90°) | | Motor shutter 1 : (2,8...16) | | Angle of inclination30°...+50°in10°stepseligible | | | Optical Sensor: | | CCD - Linear sensor | | 2 lines G / R + B per 2048 pixel | | Active length of a line: 28.7 | | Exposure time: 1/1000s ... 32s | | Colour depth: 24 bit RGB | | Automatical / manual exposure regulation | | Automatic correction of the reproduction geometry and transformation into universal sphere coordinates | | Averager - Function | | | Rotary Drive: | | Motor over stepwheel-gear, broken | | 8.333 steps per circle | | Automatic hysteresis-balancing | | Frequency of steps electronical controlled | | Recording time per full-circle image: > 30s | | | Tripod Securing: | | 1/4" inside thread | | Spirit level for keeping the horizon | | Cable clip | | | Dimension: | 80mm x 230mm | | Weight: | 800 g (without equipment) | | Power Supply: | NiMH battery 10.8 V; 1.3 Ah; (about 4 h operating time), with combined power supply device and charger for voltage from 100 - 250 V, 50 / 60Hz or 12V DC | | Interface: | ECP under IEEE 1284 (parallel PC printer port) | | Software: | Simple recording, working and reviewing tools for Microsoft Windows `95 / `98 - "Karline Scan”: regulation of all camera functions, preview, online recording control, registration of the images
- "Karline Studio”: montage of 2D or 3D images, corrections and retouching, compression, decompression, export in Tiff, BMP, AVI, print functions, and other things
- "Karline View”: Viewer for images in 2D / 3D
| | Contents: | | Camera with stereo device | | Cables for the camera | | Battery | | Power supply and charger | | Recording software "Karline Scan” | | Working software "Karline Studio” | | Viewing software "Karline View” | | Shutter glasses for stereoscopic images | | Light tripod | | Robust and weatherproof transport case | | | More Photos | | | | . |
Source:
Dr. Clauss Bild- und Datentechnik GmbH
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Original Source Press Release:
| The stereoscopic panoramic camera Karline The handy panoramic camera with stereo-view
Dr. Clauss Bild- und Datentechnik GmbH in Zwoenitz, in South-East Germany, designs and produces the panoramic camera Karline which is unique in size, performance and price and which is legally protected by several patents and utility models.
Preferred applications: - Internet presentations of products or objects
- Technical status photographs or difference analyses
- Archaeology, the preservation of historical monuments, architecture
- Environmental protection and landscape architecture
- Production of virtual worlds with a real background
Since the first presentation of the prototype at the photokina 2000 a lot of detail improvements and function enlargement followed.
Using a mouse, keyboard or joystick you can navigate in any direction and view the interesting screen details, rectified perspective with a complete depth detection in a 3-dimensional room. Such a totally stereoscopy is obtainable with no other recording technique.
But also with conventional panoramic recordings the camera captivates through the handy and easy design and the simple and half-automatic operation. Because of the inclining wide-angle lens and the precise perspective correction at a excellent geometrical resolution the camera makes also first-class, distortion-free recordings in the normal wide-angle area.
Important was a high dynamic extent and a good colourfastness. The balance of white ensues half-automatically over a scatter filter.
For more information please look at the technical data or our homepage under www.dr-clauss.de
Other products of our production programme: - Line cameras
- Optoelectronical special devices and -assemblys (special production, small series)
- Control devices
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