360 degree photography

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Not sure where to put this, sorry if it's in the wrong place.

Anyone taken 360 degree pano photos? I know there have been some examples posted up in different threads, and after a bit of reserch there seems to be different way of doing it, so I was wondering who does 360 panos, and how they do it.

Cheers.
 
How about a 360-degree lens? Like the one that Camerent have available for hire (though only in a Nikon fit) - it's at the bottom of this page.
 
Dont hire from camerent ... check it out with companies house.. The address given on the website is a temporary office location and when I rang them they did not know who camerent were...
 
we11ingon said:
Dont hire from camerent ... its a dummy company... check it out with companies house.. The address is a temporary office location and the "collection locations" just do not exist..
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I'd advise you not to make libellous statements like that unless you can back them up, or unless you're happy to have Camerent's lawyers getting in touch with you. Do you have evidence that it is a dummy company? Do you have evidence that the locations are not real?

I don't have any particular warm feelings towards Camerent, and obviously it wouldn't be the first place I'd recommend if you wanted to hire any gear. But it certainly looked like a real operation last time I was in their MD's office.
 
I use the nodal ninja 5L with an 8mm sigma stitch using ptgui and then pano2vr probably in much the same way as Simon. Keep meaning to do more and update my site so as summers coming i promise myself to do this in between all those weddings :whistling:
 
StewartR, I don't want to get into this again. except to say that if someone has a website where the registration number and VAT number used does not belong to that company, What are you supposed to think? The registration number belonged to "Archprint". A company which went through a striking off action from Companies House on 24/11/08. ( FIVE MONTHS AGO) And yes, I am quite prepared to prove anything I say about them. Libel doesnt come into it. End of story. My Apolgies to Jumbo beef as I did not wish to hijack this thread, I just needed toi defend myself there..:)
 
Hi I use Nodal Ninja 5 Canon 5D Canon 15mm Autopano Pro for stitching and Pano2vr for flash web 360 and manfrotto tripod
 
Slightly more for other's interest than to answer your original question - a bit about 360 HDRI's in the commercial world.

Part of what I do at work is to create full 360 degree HDRI environments that are used in high end 3D / CG systems (Maya, Alias, 3D max etc). Using 3D digital models of cars or products, the 360 HDRI's (not to be confused with the HDRI term that is often used here is association with photomatix etc) are used to light and provide a full virtual enviroment from which CG images can be created, with the subject / object often indistinguishable from real world photography. It was claimed recently that over 50% of the imagery used in automotive advertising is virtual. It allows cars to be placed in locations that are impossible in real life, and they can be created before the car has hit the production line reducing lead times.

We use a regular DSLR on a ninja pano head with an 8mm lens to create our 360 degree pano's but we over expose and underexpose up to 10 stops either side to record all the information in the highlights and shadows. The images are then retouched to suit and used and mapped into the 3D software.

The following links show other peoples work and are pretty good examples of this in practice ,

http://www.spheron.com/en/intruvision/references/georg-simon-ohm-university.html

http://www.spheron.com/en/intruvision/references/recom.html

Though in these links they use a Spheron camera that is capable of producing the 360 HDRI images automatically but it's about £35-50k. It's pricey as it does all the rotating, and over / under exposure automatically saving time, which people pay for in the commercial world.

Mark.
 
peteloud said:
bigbigblue,
If that is a home-made panohead bracket your home has better engineering facilities than some engineering workshops.
Pete Loud
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Pete, here is a link to details of my workshop :D
I have a lathe, a small jig borer (milling machine) a home built CNC machine and various other bits of equipment.

It looks a bit like the Nodal Ninja, but was actually inspired by this pano head. I exchanged a few emails with Dr Sean Parkin, the owner of that website, who very kindly helped with a couple of problems I had with my design (I am not an engineer by trade, but a spare time dabbler).
 
Hi Guys,

I have been too busy/lazy to get out with my worn out Canon 350D until Easter weekend. I was told about a photo competition in Milton Keynes, the theme was something to do with Easter so I got off my ass and in the only hour of sunshine over Easter did a daffodils panorama. I have to admit that compositionally it is pretty bland, but gave me a chance to link it up with some of my early panos.

Unfortunately the daffodils were past their "sell-by date" just as my trial software is past it's "try-by-date". So be quick and see if you get a Panoramic Virtual Tour, or an "Expired" message.
www.peterloud.co.uk/photos/MK_Churches/Willen/Willen.html...

I cropped out a 3.5 megapixel image for the competition, wish me luck.
Willen Daffs-w800.jpg



bigbigblue,
That is quite a home workshop, as I said "better engineering facilities than some engineering workshops". It puts my hacksaw, file and electric drill to shame. Full marks for your design. I wish I had some sort of device for incremental rotation. With that workshop you could make your own 6x6 DSLR.

Cheers,


Pete

Ooops, I forgot to mention that my panos were taken using my £1.50, home-made, Nodal Samurai Pano-head Bracket, a £10 tripod and a second-hand Canon 350D that I picked up in Singapore 2-3 years ago with an 8mm f3.5 Sigma.
 
And me. Very cool :)
 
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