Do you have a Samsung Galaxy phone? In my camera settings I have a setting called panorama, I point the phone and turn slowly, it works very well. If you don't have the galaxy, I'm sure there's a camera app that will do panorama On Mar 3, 2016 4:18 PM, "Michael" wrote: > If I do it I sure will! as for the 'street google street view' app the > closest I can find is 'google street view'. Anthony, that is a good 360 > picture of the auto service bay at gateway. To do it take a bunch of > pictures and stitch them together with hugin and then put them into the ap? > Can I download it for my computer? when you figure out how to link > everything together let me know. I would think you would just take a bunch > of pictures of the door and the hall and on. What do you think? > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz < > anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu> wrote: > >> I've not tried it before. The user interface is very easy to use. There >> are some areas that didn't align quite right, but the app walks you through >> point by point on where to shoot the photo. It'll take a few minutes. I'd >> be curious to see what the indoors one would look like. Michael, if you try >> it out, could you put some of your photospheres here for us to see? :-). >> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: >> >>> 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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