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Old 27-07-2010, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by h0ughy View Post
Alex, i have a 10mm lens - how did you make the 360 view?
You need a panoramic head like this:
http://www.nodalninja.com/
It allows to rotate a lens around a "no-paralax point" and has a click-stop rotator which is very useful at night.

With 10.5mm lens on a full frame body I do four shots in portrait orientation at 15 degrees angle looking up (on a D300 you will need 6 shots). Then I use PTGui and stitch the 360 spherical panorama, which is a bit tricky with night time shots and I sometimes have to use manual control points on the stars. I then convert to Flash in Pano2VR.

There are a few good online resources on panoramic images, I found this one a good start:
http://www.panoguide.com/howto/

If you get to doing those and have any questions just give me a shout and I will be happy to assist.

Cheers,
Alex
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