180 degree video

[zaphodikus]

Firstly, I don't have a budget for this at all, I probably don't even have 2 identical cameras to capture 180 with using a stereo camera jig setup , but throwing it out there.

I recently took a new hobby campanology. One of the skills that ringers must learn is to work on their peripheral vision. The ability to see vaguely what 2 persons roughly just inside of 180 degrees to your left and right are doing. I'm trying to work out how to do this, but without a regular wide angle, since the camera cannot be behind the ringer, there is really no space. My Sony action cam can only really do a 120 degree, and as far I know none of the action cams do that kind of angle. I'm thinking two small cameras in a single tripod with a jig between 2 any people in the ring where there is a wider gap capturing a largely overlapping 100 degrees might get me somewhere? If that might work, anyone ever done and stitched footage this way before? On a budget.

Just throwing it out there in case someone has any suggestions.

[asik1]

I don't understand where you want to place the cams, if you in the middle and you need to "learn" what the others do, why not to shoot all from the front and "learn" the tune.
Joining 2 videos in VS is EZ but render to 3840X1080 is tricky, I did so for few tests many years ago but it got VS very "shaky".

What about wide angel attachment?

[zaphodikus]

@asik1, yes. I guess I'm trying to show a tiny part of the human perspective which really could work in a single fisheye/stitched photo. But we can do video these days, so I was getting ahead of myself.

I should really draw a picture.
https://imgur.com/a/UgpiKRX

I'm wanting to show how like in this picture, you have to pay attention to what is going on in front of you, as well as immediately to the left and right. I probably only want a few seconds of this for demo. But it feels like you say hard to show. The 2 cameras will need to be focus and light locked, and then it might work well. Also need to get a lens correction thing set up. Humans have about 100 degrees, but I'm wanting to get the fall-off in movement detection that you get at the edges beyond that and up to almost 180, because we all move our heads a bit to get a picture too. I want to be blurring the edges of a very short clip, to simulate what it's like to actually be there. So nothing like teaching someone to ring a specific tune (we call them methods not tunes actually, I'm still learning myself, and that's an entire different ball game.

Nothing like giving it a try I guess.
(Fun fact - ringing a method is a pattern, not a tune and is a mathematical unique sequence, tunes repeat, ringing is not allowed to repeat per touch.)