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Lenses

There is a 360 camera for every purpose. In this module, you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the 360 camera landscape and which work best in various scenarios, and get you ready to start shooting to make post-production as efficient as possible. You will then get to work on your own 360 films.

Welcome to the Google AR & VR Virtual Reality and 360 video production course! Our mission is to give you the skills you need to get started with your first VR project. This course will introduce you to Virtual Reality and 360 video production, guiding you through a step-by-step process to create VR content. To begin, we recommend taking a few minutes to explore the course site and review the material. Best of luck as you get started - we hope you enjoy the course, and can't wait to see what you'll create!

Skills You'll Learn

Virtual Reality, Camera+, Video Production, 360-degree video

Taught By

Google AR & VR

Transcript

A more advanced consideration is understanding lenses,

which have the greatest influence on how video is captured.

Ultra Wide-angle lenses are go-tos,

because they can capture as much of

the environment as possible with the fewest amount of cameras.

Therefore, the fewest number of videos to stitch together after the fact.

There are two types of commonly used ultra wide-angle lenses.

The first, the fisheye lens,

is a small curvilinear lens that captures a spherical view of the world.

This is most evident in the curved outer edges of the photo.

The good thing is, this distortion can be fixed with post-production stitching tools.

A rectilinear lens, is an ultra wide-angle lens that's generally bigger than a fisheye.

As opposed to being curved on the edges,

rectilinear lenses are great for preserving straight lines without any warping,

making them perfect for capturing straight walls of buildings and interiors.

They usually enable every pixel in the shop,

to have equal sharpness and

little distortion enabling much easier stitching in post-production.

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