What is panorama? In the 19th century, the time when people invented panoramic photography, stitching pictures is the only way to get a panorama. In 1851 Martin Behrmanx took some photos on Rincon Hill in San Francisco. It is said that this photo initially had eleven plates. From this picture we can see Rincon Hill stitched a few pictures together, then get this panoramic photo. At that time, panoramic photos often meant wide angle and wide aspect ratio(like the picture above). This situation has continued to the era of digital photography. Panoramic photography maybe has many definitions, but for us, it is a format of photography that captures great wide-angle photos. 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 panorama photos. In fact there is no formal definition to tell us this is wide-angle and that is panorama. With the emergence of image-processing software, people began to use digital pictures to create panoramic photos. For example, they use One-shot, the optic for capturing seamless 360-degree images in an instant, or take multiple pictures to stitch. With one-shot, we can get a 360 degree panorama on the horizon quickly, but because of the limit on the vertical, we can not see the top and bottom from one-shot panoramic photos. With standard lens or wide-angle lens, we can take multiple digital pictures to stitch a panorama photo, which has wide angle on horizon and vertical, and this wide angle often is less than 180 degree. Although these types of panoramas can meet some of our needs, the 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 panorama. 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. Creating a 360*180 degree panoramic photo 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 panorama. 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. 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 panorama. The key of creating 360*180 degree panoramic photographs - Panorama Software A powerful panorama-stitching program, 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 panorama photos is panorama software, because a perfect panoramic photo can only be created by a powerful panorama software. Panoweaver is professional anorama Software to stitch any photos to 360 degree panorama. Within minutes, you can get high quality panoramic image and full screen panoramic tours in Flash, QuickTime and Java player. Standard digital photos and wide-angle photos in single line and mutiple lines, and fisheye photos can all be stitched into 360 panoramas. Panoramic photography - with Panoweaver
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Panoramic photography - Type of panoramic photos
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What is panoramic photography?
Panoramic photography - Type of panoramic photos
360 panoramic photography - Create 360*180 degree photos
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