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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