Panoramic robot

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A panorama robot (also a panorama head or nodal point adapter) is a motorized and mostly fully automatic pan-tilt head. Mounted on a tripod, this device positions cameras in order to record several single images (segmented image recording). In this way, objects are recorded in many thousands of individual images, which are later put together to form an overall image of enormous size and richness of detail. Typical areas of application are panorama photos or the digitization of large works of art.

Emergence

The first panorama robot was developed with the aim of breaking away from the classic form of a panorama camera and moving to segmented image acquisition. Typical panorama cameras scan the image in individual lines and therefore require a relatively long time. Moving objects, such as cars driving in a landscape, are therefore shown stretched or compressed, resulting in artifacts . Panoramic robots, on the other hand, swivel and tilt conventional (and comparatively inexpensive) digital cameras, processor-controlled, into the respective positions for the individual shots.

application

Panoramic robot during the recording of the world's largest gigapixel panorama of Mont Blanc 2014

Panoramic robots are mainly used in the field of classic panoramic photography . New application possibilities also open up through the use on high picture tripods (high picture panorama photography) and extremely long focal length telephoto lenses ( gigapixel photography ).

Digitization of paintings

For the first time for the digital reproduction of paintings, a panorama robot was used in 2006 by the manufacturers Haltadefinizione, AMD and Nikon . The device, developed by the Clauss company, controlled the recording of the fresco The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci in Milan , Italy. The 460 cm × 880 cm image was digitized with approx. 16 gigapixels. Almost at the same time, the same device was used to reproduce the altar painting “Parete Gaudenziana” at the same location in the “Santa Maria delle Grazie” church in Milan.

In addition, panoramic robots are used remotely for inspection in hazardous areas.

See also

literature

  • Thomas Bredenfeld: Das Praxisbuch Digitale Panoramafotografie , Galileo Press, Bonn, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8362-1223-6
  • Ulrich Clauß: Panorama scanner and polar coordinates - new concepts and solutions in: Thomas Luhmann: Photogrammetrie Laserscanning Optical 3D measurement technology , Wichmann Verlag im VDE-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004, ISBN 3-87907-407-0 , pp. 142–149

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ U. Clauß: “Segmentating image recording device”, patent specification DE 10 2008 038 470 A1, August 20, 2008
  2. ↑ a b U. Clauß: "Method and arrangement for obtaining high-quality panoramic images", patent specification DE 103 59 361 A1, December 16, 2003
  3. ↑ U. Clauß, "Arrangement and method for photoelectric panorama recording", patent specification DE 199 21 734 A1, May 11, 1999
  4. ↑ U. Clauß: "Arrangement and method for stereoscopic optoelectronic image and measurement data acquisition", patent DE 197 46 319 A1, October 21, 1997
  5. ↑ 2003 Development of the first panorama robot , Clauss Chronik
  6. ↑ Digitization of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci in Ultra-HD , Stern
  7. ↑ Last Supper gets 16bn pixel boost , BBC News
  8. ^ " Largest Photographs in the World - Parete Gaudenziana ", English Wikipedia