walking pictures

[Anthony Radzykewycz]

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 <brian at snaptek.com> 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. Could someone help me?
>>
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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