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The other day I talked in my post about the HDR capabilities on the new iPhone 4 (check it out if you don’t know what HDR is). And then I came around this cool video from @sovietmontage. It’s not only “cool” but inspiring.
The idea behind the HDR video that Soviet Montage created is using two cameras. One filming at a low exposure, and another filming at a high exposure. Combining the two they can create a tonemapped HDR image as we see in the videos.
The main problem is that you need two cameras or three if you wanted to have a broader more accurate light range. To solve this it would be cool to experiment with true HDRi capturing cameras like the SpheroCam HDR. Maybe not exactly this camera because this camera is used to used to obtain HDR images from a single image. This (and other HDR) cameras can capture 32bit images wich have 26 stops of light information. This means that you can see everything in the lighter and darker parts of the video. So using this cameras with their technique of tonemapping video would be much faster and they would have much flexibility.
Well that’s only my thoughts about this technique. I’ve worked with HDR imaging for my undergrad Thesis for my Bachelor in Computer Engineering so that is why I’m really interested in this.
I’ll bee awaiting for new updates on HDR video from Soviet Montage.
Great work!
See you all soon!
