What Is a Digital Panoramic Camera?

Panoramic shooting refers to the method of shooting 360 degrees horizontally and 180 degrees vertically with a certain point as the center, and stitching multiple shots into a picture with a length and width ratio of 2: 1.

Panorama

The so-called "panoramic shooting" is to combine all the pictures taken into one

The equipment used for panoramic photography generally includes SLR cameras, fisheye lenses, heads and tripods. According to the different requirements of the producer on the quality and use of the panorama. The following first briefly introduces several hardware configurations:

1. Configuration of ordinary digital cameras:

Camera: There are common Nikon coolpix series cameras such as coolpix 5400, 5700, 8700, etc.

Panoramic software: there are landscaping software, roaming master software and stylist software of Shanghai Jietu Software.

Landscape Architect: Allows you to easily assemble a high-quality 360-degree spherical or cylindrical panorama in just 2-5 minutes.

Features: Support for multiple fisheye maps, support for modeling fisheye and cube cubes, support ball-to-ball interchange, support for batch processing, support for automatic tripod removal, support for adding hotspots in panoramas, and support for self-service Define control buttons, support for adding background music, support for HDR function, and landscapers can publish to FLASH VR, SWF, HTML 5 and so on to adapt to the format of different browsing devices. ^[1]

Roaming Master: The Roaming Master is the leading 3D panoramic virtual roaming display production software for 360 panorama industry.

Features: You can add Baidu maps, pre-support right-click custom production unit information, HTML 5 scene switching over effects, FLASH thumbnail style increase, FLASH animation can be added as a hotspot on the flat map, simple interface operation, preview is saved, Scene player, map player, compass, Flash thumbnail, polygon hotspot, transition effect, custom mouse shape, rain and snow effect, etc. ^[2]

Stylist: Automatically process the image obtained by 360 ° surround shooting of a real object to generate a 360-degree object display model.

Features: Support the release of 3D virtual objects in Flash, JAVA and QTVR formats, directly import graphic files of objects, capture graphic files of objects through video files, capture images of objects through digital cameras, customize player appearance, and users can customize Publishing dimensions of 3D virtual objects, etc.