With the release of IOS 6 much has been written about how good it is to have a panoramic photo feature in iPhone. iPhone 5 is the latest in the series of iPhones that has a great camera. Its marginally better than the 4s iPhone, which was a great step up from iPhone 4 and iPhone 3gs. Many people take their happy snaps and more professional photos with the iPhone now. They no longer carry a pocket digital as this era comes to a close.
Apps have been available for ages that do cylindrical and spherical photos. Microsoft Photosynth is possibly the best app for iPhone panoramas as it makes full spherical panoramas.
There is one big problem with all these apps. If you don't keep the camera lens in exactly the same position as you make the photos you will get parallax error. Objects at the edge of the photo will appear different in each of the photos. The app then has to make sense of the photos. In most cases it will distort the joins or make mistakes that appear ugly.
Parallax has been a problem for panoramic professionals for years and they spend a lot of money fixing it. The same problem of parallax has been solved on iPhones much simpler and with much less expense.
Photographers that look for the best result from panoramas spend a lot of time and money on systems that ensure their SLR camera is properly positioned. The system they must use is heavy too and the until they process the photos they won't know if they got it right. The processing time and set up time for a photographer required a high cost, making it impossible for small business or high volume / low cost models to apply. It was simply to hard to get a business result in the past, and this kept the technology at arms reach for most businesses. The amount of this style of photography found online was minimal.
Apps have been available for ages that do cylindrical and spherical photos. Microsoft Photosynth is possibly the best app for iPhone panoramas as it makes full spherical panoramas.
There is one big problem with all these apps. If you don't keep the camera lens in exactly the same position as you make the photos you will get parallax error. Objects at the edge of the photo will appear different in each of the photos. The app then has to make sense of the photos. In most cases it will distort the joins or make mistakes that appear ugly.
Parallax has been a problem for panoramic professionals for years and they spend a lot of money fixing it. The same problem of parallax has been solved on iPhones much simpler and with much less expense.
Photographers that look for the best result from panoramas spend a lot of time and money on systems that ensure their SLR camera is properly positioned. The system they must use is heavy too and the until they process the photos they won't know if they got it right. The processing time and set up time for a photographer required a high cost, making it impossible for small business or high volume / low cost models to apply. It was simply to hard to get a business result in the past, and this kept the technology at arms reach for most businesses. The amount of this style of photography found online was minimal.
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It is now possible to take precision 360 degree panoramas using the iClyck iPhone panorama tripod mount to and use it as a iPhone tripod mount.
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