Re: walking pictures

>>     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:

>>     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:

>>     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. Could someone help me?

>>         --
>>         :-)~MIKE~(-:

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