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With the testo 875 in Landscape orientation the centre of gravity is close to the axis of rotation of the Nodal Ninja, but in Portrait orientation the centre of gravity is along way from this putting a lot of strain on the panoramic head, so the tests were made with the testo 875 in Landscape orientation. The testo 875 weighs 900g giving a combined weight of 1550g, which is around the limit that the Nodal Ninja 3 can handle. In hind sight it was clear that the frame was considerably over engineered, as a result of being able to obtain suitable materials in the time available, and weighed in at 650g.
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The 6 mm thread was used to fix the camera into the frame as this was a more positive fitting than using the adapter. The frame was constructed so that the testo 875 could be mounted in both Landscape and Portrait format. The testo 875 is fitted with a 6 mm thread in the base of the battery compartment handle and provided with an adaptor to convert this to a 1/4” Whitworth thread for fitting to a tripod, so the next step was to manufacture a frame that would enable the testo 875 to be fitted to the Nodal Ninja so that it could be rotated about the Nodal Point. The Panoramic Head I have available for testing is a Nodal Ninja 3, which is designed to record images with a camera (DSLR) in portrait mode.
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The first task therefore was to determine the Nodal Point, Entrance Pupil, for the testo 875 and this was found to be 30 mm back from the front of the camera lens. To create a 360° Panorama the thermal images need to be taken with the Nodal Point (Point of Least Parallax) coincident with the point of rotation of a panoramic head, which in turn needs to be coincident with the central point of the HDS scan.
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The process is also much more time consuming, manual and labour intensive than creating 360° Panoramas with a DSLR and Fisheye lens. The investigation also showed that a disciplined approach is required to achieve a solution. However, the results were not of high quality because of the low resolution images. The investigation showed that it was possible to produce a 360° Panorama from the thermal images. The Thermal Imaging Camera used for this investigation was a testo 875, for which the thermal image has a resolution of 160 x 120 pixels. This report is the result of an investigation into the possibility of using images from a Thermal Imaging Camera to create a 360° (Interactive) Panorama to generate the Cube Images to attach the colours from the thermal images to an HDS (High Definition Survey) Point Cloud. Using Thermal Images to create a 360° (Interactive) Panoramas