{"id":923,"date":"2012-05-17T04:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2012-05-17T04:03:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T04:03:53","slug":"using-the-sony-bloggie-360-lens-with-a-normal-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/using-the-sony-bloggie-360-lens-with-a-normal-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Sony Bloggie 360 lens with a normal camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a 360degree lens from a Sony bloggie, but no longer have the camera. Turns out you can jam it on to a normal camera and use imagemagick to convert the images.<\/p>\n<p>I balanced the 360lens on my LX3:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lx33601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lx33601-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lx3360\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lx33601-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lx33601.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the raw image, after cropping:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_crop-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hackerspace_crop\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_crop-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_crop-1013x1024.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_crop.jpg 1155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I then used the imagemagick as follows:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nconvert ~\/hackersapce_crop.jpg +distort DePolar 0 ~\/hackerspace_unwrap.jpg\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After cropping the image looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_unwrap_crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_unwrap_crop-1024x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hackerspace_unwrap_crop\" width=\"630\" height=\"146\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_unwrap_crop-1024x238.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_unwrap_crop-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hackerspace_unwrap_crop.jpg 1815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be nice if I could focus the image onto a webcam CCD directly, anyway an interesting lens to play with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a 360degree lens from a Sony bloggie, but no longer have the camera. Turns out you can jam it on to a normal camera and use imagemagick to convert the images. I balanced the 360lens on my LX3: Here&#8217;s the raw image, after cropping: I then used the imagemagick as follows: convert ~\/hackersapce_crop.jpg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-eT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}