walking pictures

Bob Elzer bob.elzer at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 10:14:23 MST 2016 

Do you have a Samsung Galaxy phone?

In my camera settings I have a setting called panorama, I point the phone
and turn slowly, it works very well.

If  you don't have the galaxy, I'm sure there's a camera app that will do
panorama
On Mar 3, 2016 4:18 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I do it I sure will! as for the 'street google street view' app the
> closest I can find is 'google street view'. Anthony, that is a good 360
> picture of the auto service bay at gateway. To do it take a bunch of
> pictures and stitch them together with hugin and then put them into the ap?
> Can I download it for my computer? when you figure out how to link
> everything together let me know. I would think you would just take a bunch
> of pictures of the door and the hall and on. What do you think?
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz <
> anthony.radzykewycz at gatewaycc.edu> wrote:
>
>> I've not tried it before. The user interface is very easy to use. There
>> are some areas that didn't align quite right, but the app walks you through
>> point by point on where to shoot the photo. It'll take a few minutes. I'd
>> be curious to see what the indoors one would look like. Michael, if you try
>> it out, could you put some of your photospheres here for us to see? :-).
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was going to mention that you could just use your phone, but with the
>>> amount of parallax distortion you would get indoors, because of the close
>>> quarters, I decided to pass on it as a suggestion.  Using your phone
>>> without some fancy rig to align the lens correctly would lead to some very
>>> strange/bad looking real estate photos.
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>> On 03/03/2016 09:15 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>> <mailto: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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