The most spectacular presentation of a panorama is most certainly the 360° virtual tour. To create it correctly, you'll have to follow a certain number of steps, not necessarily essential, but when they're all followed carefully, the quality and easiness of stitching is here. Unless you choose a 360° camera like the Ricoh Theta SC or Insta360 One X because it is the current Google Streetview trend that makes dream realtors .. without offering them a very good quality, still early 2020, despite the efforts of manufacturers! Here are all my advices to help you choose..
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A virtual tour, possibly on 360°x180°, is a particular case in panoramic photography by stitching. It is a recent way to show panoramas in an interactive way, hence necessarily online, which participated in the digital revolution of this field of photography, by the way. When you're watching a 360° virtual tour, it is thus possible to interact with the panorama using your mouse by rotating it in all directions, from the floor to the ceiling in some cases, to go from one room to another, to zoom in the image, to read information, to watch videos, etc.
In all the pages of this tutorial in the The guide to panoramic photography, dedicated to this particular field that is the realization of virtual tours, I'll try to explain you how to proceed and what makes it so singular. As you can guess, it is quite technical when you want to do things right, but it also became a lot easier from 2011 on..
Key points if you're a beginner.. On top of each page, I'll indicate the essential points that should draw your attention if you're a beginner. The rest of the page is aimed at those who want to learn more. To sum up, we can already say that it will be about shooting a whole sphere on 180° x 360°. For this you can directly use a 360° camera like the Ricoh Theta SC or the Insta360 One X. The procedure is very simple but the picture quality really not great for the moment (Early 2019). The Google Streetview program is happy however. It is true that their use is very simple. If you want a better quality then you need a camera that accepts fisheyes lenses. These 'special' lenses that shoot 180 degrees by deforming the image as in the eye of a fish, allow you to shoot a sphere in only a few photos (between 4 and 8 maximum). Another advantage, working with fisheye lenses, it will cost you a lot less - starting from $200 - because the 'classic' objectives are very large angles and are very expensive and you have to take with them at least fifteen photos and not eight or even less. Use a spherical panoramic head like the so cool Nodal Ninja 3 or 6. Next key points: How many photos do you need? |
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We'll take the eight photos below, shot with a fisheye full-format lens, as a starting point and observe their journey and transformations..
Once Stitchd by an stitching software like Autopano Giga, the photos are rendered in a spherical geometric projection below typical. Straight lines curl ..
Here is typically a photo shot on 180°x360° rendered in spherical mode: the top and the bottom of the panorama are completely distorted. But once mounted as a virtual tour - in six cube faces as you can see below, and where you can notice that the floor side returns to its normal aspect - and watched online, everything gets back to normal because this photo is redistorted automatically.
Important note! The typical distortion of this 360° photo above is absolutely not due to the fact that the photos were taken with a fisheye but only because a 360° photo is necessarily Stitchd in a so-called spherical projection that rounded also necessarily all the straight lines. This photo would have the same look if it had been taken in 21 photos with a wide angle 'classic' of 24 mm. She would have just more pixels. The fisheye lens just lets you work faster.
Those six cube sides are automatically distorted to be watched in an online page;
I invite you to visit it to realize all the possibilities of a virtual tour nowadays. And it keeps on evolving..
Contents of this tutorial 1 - Specific photo equipment : cameras and lenses |
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I thus invite you to read the photo equipment page of this virtual tour creation tutorial - Photo equipment: what lens for how many photos?
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