Sony's newest CCD goes all the way in full circles

Sony's full-circle panorama module

December 30, 2003
Until now, taking a 360° panorama with a normal lens has required taking multiple shots while rotating the camera slowly and then combining ("stitching") those shots together to form the panorama. Sony has now developed a camera module that uses a 360° full-circle lens, and is releasing two commercial products based on this new technique, described in full in Sony's most recent publication of CX-news, 2003.11, Volume 34 ...More

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