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Panoramic photography

Panoramic photography maybe has many definitions, but for us, it is a format of photography that captures great wide-angle photographs. This wide-angle we are talking about is not general wide-angle, it should be greater than human's field of view(about 75 degree). It is a consensus which was developed by the people who create panoramic photographs. In fact there is no formal definition to tell us this is wide-angle and that is panorama.

The type of panoramic photographs

In the 19th century, the time when people invented panoramic photography, stitching pictures is the only way to get a panoramic photograph. In 1851 Martin Behrmanx took some photos on Rincon Hill in San Francisco. It is said that the panorama initially had eleven plates. From this picture we can see Rincon Hill stitched a few pictures together, then get this panoramic photograph.

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At that time, panoramic photograph often meant wide angle and wide aspect ratio(like the picture above). This situation has continued to the era of digital photography.

With the emergence of image-processing software, people began to use digital pictures to create panoramic photographs. For example, they use One-shot, the optic for capturing seamless 360-degree panoramic images in an instant, or take multiple pictures to stitch.

With one-shot panoramic photography, we can get a 360 degree panoramic photograph on the horizon quickly, but because of the limit on the vertical, we can not see the top and bottom from one-shot panoramic photographs.

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With standard lens or wide-angle lens, we can take multiple digital pictures to stitch a panoramic photograph, which has wide angle on horizon and vertical, and this wide angle often is less than 180 degree.

Although these types of panoramic photograph can meet some of our needs, the panoramic photography pursuit of photographers can never be stopped. Now 360*180 degree panoramic photography is a very important part of photography. 360*180 degree field of view allows us to see every corner of a place from its panoramic photograph. And with the panorama viewer we can get the effect of virtual reality on computers, which gives us more sense of immersion than plane panoramic pictures.

How to get 360*180 degree panoramic photographs

Creating a 360*180 degree panoramic photograph is not easy, unless you have a strong panorama-stitching software and some special equipment(fisheye lens and pano-head).

Limitations on standard lens or wide-angle lens

If you use standard lens or wide-angle lens to take multiple pictures, you need to take dozens of pictures in order to create a 360*180 degree panoramic photograph. As the FOV of standard lens and wide-angle is limited, taking numerous picures is inevitable. Such great amount of work takes much time and also makes the shooting quite complicated.

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How can we take the minimum of pictures to get a panoramic photograph?

The solution is to use fisheye lens. Fisheye lens has ultra-wide-angle and has a 180 degree angle of view on the diagonal line. In this way, only 4-8 photos are needed for a 360*180 degree panoramic photograph.

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The key of creating 360*180 degree panoramic photographs - Panorama Software

A powerful panorama-stitching software, a fisheye lens and a pano-head are all indispensable elements in the panoramic photography process, but the key element in creating 360*180 degree panoramic photographs is panorama software, because a perfect panoramic photograph can only be created by a powerful panorama software.

Panorama Software - Panoweaver 5.00

Panoweaver 5.00 is professional Panorama Software to stitch 360 degree Flash panorama. Within minutes, you can get high quality panorama image and full screen Flash panorama with this powerful panorama software. The Flash panorama viewer in full screen mode provides users with better experience of 360 degree immersive panorama. Flash panorama software Panoweaver is widely used for stitching panoramas by real estate agents, virtual tour companies, web designers, government and panorama photo stitching amateurs.

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