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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