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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