I stumbled across this post the other day, Modding the bloggie panoramic lens, about hacking the bloggie to enable it to record 360° movies in 1080p and not the standard 720. The initial problem the leaves you with (apart from a hacked bloggie) is how to transform your polar movie to an equirectangular format. The [...]
Should I buy an expensive dive computer for technical diving?
Plan a dive or run by computer? Recreational or technical? One of the best things I bought when recreational diving was my Suunto D6 – not just because it was a nice looking watch but so that I could track my no deco time more accurately that sticking to a max depth/max dive time. Recreational [...]
Creating planets – photoshop polar wierdness
I’ve just warped several of my recent panoramas into the mini planets using the photoshop polar co-ordinate filter. There’s an excellent tutorial on the photojojo website. The basic process involves selecting a reasonably interesting photo – panoramas are generally best but with a bit of cropping you can use any land/sky image. Then change the [...]
Shooting underwater using a Canon and Kodak cameras
I’ve had an underwater camera for sometime now – well I mean cameras. They are the Canon A620, G10 and most recently the Kodak Zi8. I’ve thought about buying a housing for my Canon 7D from both Ikelite and Gates – I’ll discuss this at the end of the post. Once I’d passed my advanced [...]
360 walk around a dive boat
I’ve added a new page with a panoramic video shot onboard one of Camel Dive Clubs dive boats – Blue Moon. It was shot using the Pano-Pro lens with a Canon 7D fitted to the DSLR adapter. A word of warning though – the adapter has a slight issue with the Canon 7D base plate. [...]
Technical dives that aren’t that deep
Nine times out of ten, while setting up my technical gear on the boat I’m asked “How deep are you going?”. When diving the Thistlegorm the answer is 31m. Now, most people immediately respond with “what’s the point of 4 tanks and all that extra gear?” Location: 27° 49′ 03″ N, 33° 55′ 14″E. Northeast [...]
Updated Vimeo site!
I’ve just updated my vimeo site vimeo.com/johnmason/ with the latest technical diving videos (including the epic 20min edit of my recent 110 minute X-Scooter dive on the thistlegorm with Rod) Other videos on the site include videos shot with both my Canon 7D and Kodak Zi8. Related Posts:Web post roundupDiving apps for your iPhone and [...]
Immersive 360 degree and panoramic images
Over the years I’ve collected a number of gadgets to simplify and/or automate the acquisition of large panoramic and 360 degree photos – to varying degrees of success! They range from the cheap to the silly…. and we start with the iPhone 4. Excluding the cost of the iPhone – the 360 apps (£0.59 – [...]
Nice lemon tree and a smashed iPhone!
Colombia Road flower market is a great place to spend an hour or two on a Sunday morning, as the street is transformed into oasis of foliage and flowers. After a suitably pleasing purchase, a lemon tree, it was time to take a quick photo. Unfortunately, using only one hand the iPhone slipped all to [...]
iPhone and iPad favourite apps
iPhone apps: 360 Panorama – Occipital A great app to quickly capture a 360 image of your surroundings. Simply spin round and share with your friends via twitter or through the app (they’ll have to download it to their phone too!) You can check out the results on my immersive 360 degree images page. Panoramatic [...]
Relaxing in Bali, oh and some technical diving!
After visiting Roatan last year we decided to return to Bali for just over two weeks of relaxation in familiar surroundings. We spent the first few days around the Seminyak area – close to the beach and Ku De Ta. Prior to arrival, I’d asked a number of agents about last minute deals for villas. [...]
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