I was going to mention that you could just use your phone, but with the amount of parallax distortion you would get indoors, because of the close quarters, I decided to pass on it as a suggestion. Using your phone without some fancy rig to align the lens correctly would lead to some very strange/bad looking real estate photos. Brian Cluff On 03/03/2016 09:15 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz wrote: > I have experience with a particular application for single photos. We > haven't gotten to taken multiple to link them in a 'tour' yet. Use an > android device, go to the play store, download "Street Google Street > View," then get back to me if that works. I find it to work very well. > Here's a photo we took (spoiler alert: plug for our college.) It's free. > https://www.google.com/maps/place/Automotive/@33.4492937,-111.9981612,3a,75y,339.38h,82.17t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-R2TgnaTB8rg%2FVsdPXmqvNaI%2FAAAAAAAACN0%2FMmnEtIAkgLs!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-R2TgnaTB8rg%2FVsdPXmqvNaI%2FAAAAAAAACN0%2FMmnEtIAkgLs%2Fw392-h196-n-k-no%2F!7i8704!8i4352!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x872b0e86227901f1:0x6f3e855d11e11760!2sGateWay+Community+College!3b1!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x6f3082e7a75018be!6m1!1e1 > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > > There is no super cheap way to do spherical panoramas correctly, but > there are a ton of ways to do them. > > Probably the cheapest way to do it is to get a panorama head for > your tripod and take a bunch of pictures of the room. I really like > the nodal ninja for doing that. It's inexpensive (compared to a lot > of the others) and it's well built: > > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/838674-REG/Nodal_Ninja_N3II_PKG_NN_MKII_Starter_Package.html > > To use the nodal ninja you have to carefully align the camera's lens > so that when you spin it around the camera is rotated on it's focal > point. That will be somewhere between the front of the camera and > the image sensor. > Then you just take a bunch of pictures that overlap about 30% to > 50%. You probably take anywhere from 16 to 90 pictures per photo > sphere depending on how wide angle your lens is. > > Then you just stitch all the images together in hugin. > > There are automated versions of the tripod heads, and this is the > route I would go. They offer the ability of just set how far apart > you want your images to be taken in degrees and then simple press a > button, leave the room and wait for it to take the pictures. It > offers the cheapest and highest quality of all the panorama > techniques that I know of. A very good example of the Gigapan. > With the smaller cameras you could get the cheapest model and it's > not all that much more expensive than the Nodal Ninja. > > http://www.omegabrandess.com/products/Gigapan/600-0006 > > There are also a number of specialized camera's that range from a > couple of hundred bucks to thousands. The cheapest one I know if is > the Ricoh Theta M15: > http://www.amazon.com/Ricoh-Theta-Degree-Spherical-Panorama/dp/B00OZCM71O > Many of the dedicated cameras, the Ricoh included use multiple > cameras to capture the image. In wide open spaces that it's such a > big deal, but inside buildings having multiple cameras that don't > capture images from a single focal point will cause parallax > distortion, which causes ghosting and tearing in the picture. The > ricoh only has 2 cameras so there will only be one place in the > image that will have the problem which will be in a big ring around > the whole image, top to bottom, so it might not be a bad camera for > real estate photos since you can plan where the problems will be. > When you get to higher end camera like the Panono which have 36 > cameras that are further apart. Indoor pictures will become > terrible with lots and lots of strange problems. Outdoors, with > everything being much further away, the parallax distortion isn't a > huge problem and you are treated to great 108 Megapixel images. > > https://www.panono.com/home > > Finally there are specialized lenses. but you'll probably have to > have a much more expensive camera and the panorama is fairly low > resolution because you are now spreading your camera's pixels around > 360 degrees, but if you need to take quick high quality photos that > don't require stitching, these can do the trick, but they are > expensive. Here's an example of one of those: > > http://www.amazon.com/EyeSee-360-Panoramic-Photowarp-Videowarp/dp/B003VHZS9W > > > Hope that helps, > Brian Cluff > > > On 03/03/2016 06:53 AM, Michael wrote: > > I go to google maps and go to a world view and plop the little > guy down > somewhere and often the street view that pops up is sometimes in the > middle of the wilderness. I asked hear about it before and was > told that > you can get a hat with a camera on it to do that. Well, I doubt > I can > afford that hat so how could I do something similar with a camera? > > Specifically, what I want to do is do a virtual tour of a house > and of > it's property. 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