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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