When I bought my first digital camera in 1996, I was the only person I knew that had a digital camera. I had to explain it as a “computer camera” when folks asked what it was. No one knew the term “digital camera” yet.
Even when I’d visit Disneyland, no one had them. You’d see the occasional camcorder or film camera, but no one was snapping away digital … yet. That changed quickly.
Later, I took a 3-D camcorder attachment on a trip, recording interlaced 3-D to Digital8 video tapes.
Around 2005, I took a “one shot panorama” camera gadget to the parks. You would point the camera up, where it would take a photo of the bottom of a half mirror ball. Software would later turn that in to a panorama with limited up/down viewing. This was the predecessor to the 360 cameras we have today.
When I “returned” to Disneyland in 2017, I took my RICOH Theta VR360 camera with me. I have never shared any of these photos before (there really wasn’t an easy way to share them back then), but I have started uploading them to my “Park Hopping in VR” YouTube group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/@parkhoppinginvr
Stop by and see opening year of Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout in VR.
Experience A Bug’s Land in VR.
Be amazed at the incredible quality of a 2017 VR camera 😉
Or not. But they are still fun to look at.
Drop by and if you also do VR photography, feel free to share some of your theme park VR photos.
More to come. So much more…