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Re: how best to work out the number of shots for a 360 pano?
chris 2008-Sep-08 01:12:00
Thanks Erik,
I was planning shooting in landscape with my currrent tripod as putting it
in portrait
seems to make t even more off-center and it's a bit more awkward too.
So, is there a simple calculator that gave you the 100x77?
thanks,
chris
2008/9/8 Erik Krause <#removed#>
> On Sunday, September 07, 2008 at 10:43, chris wrote:
>
> > I have a 10-22m EFS lens I use on a Canon 450D. What is a good number
> > of shots per row / number of rows to cover a 360 pano? I'm not sure how
> > best to work this out, for starters, i don't know what overlap is
> > generally best for stitching.
>
> Ok, 10mm rectilinear on a crop faktor 1.5 camera has about 100?x77?
> angle of view. With 20% overlap you need at least 6 images around in
> portrait mode to cover 360? arranged in three rows. However, I would
> shoot one row 40? down, one row 40? up plus zenith and nadir shot.
>
> But best is, you take an arbitrary image shot at 10mm, load it
> multiple times in your favourite stitcher app and arrange them
> manually such, that they cover the whole sphere to get a feeling how
> the images overlap...
>
> best regards
> Erik Krause
> http://www.erik-krause.de
>
>
>
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