360 Spherical Aerial Mount

Hello fellow aerial photo enthusiasts!

We have just finished our most recent design, the 'Auto360' used for capturing 360 degree spherical panoramas from multirotors. It has an automatic triggering system to fire the camera shutter for 4, 5, or 6 shot panoramas every 90, 72, or 60 degrees (user selectable).

It is intended for use on 600 - 900 size multirotor aircraft.

A servo motor is used to pan the camera mount. As the mount pans the triggering system activates the camera shutter. Thus, only a single extra RC channel is required. Simply hit the switch on your transmitter, the mount begins panning and capturing images at exactly every 90, 72, or 60 degrees as you configure it.

It can be used with the landing gear as shown, or the landing gear can be removed for multirotors with retractable landing gear.

Here's a quick clip showing the Auto360 mounted to our PanoCopter in action:


And here are some final output 360 spherical samples:

http://photoshipone.com/aerial-panoramas/

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