jaredc
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Location: United States
Registered: 9 Jul 2012
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Lens choice for 360 panos
Posted: 11 Jul 2012 at 4:54 GMT
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I am putting together gear to shoot some simple 360 panoramas for a client. It will be hotel lobbies, rooms, maybe the pool area.
I will be using a canon 5d mkii, a nn4/ w/ the rd 16.
I would like to use either the canon 15mm fisheye or the 8mm sigma if it will produce great results.
I need to make 360's not vr or spherical panos.
Can anyone tell me if this setup is sufficient to make excellent panos even in a small hotel room?
What is the ideal lens length (mm) for doing this? The other lens I was considering was the Canon 8-15mm, but if this is overkill I would prefer not to spend the money.
Thanks,
jared
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JdT
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Location: United States
Registered: 6 Jul 2012
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Re: Lens choice for 360 panos
Posted: 11 Jul 2012 at 6:22 GMT
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I scored my 8-15 for $650 believe it or not! On craigslist... new condition from someone who wasn't using it. Love it. Any of the 3 you listed were on my list of (used)r:
$500 Canon 15mm
$400 Sigma 15mm
$1000 Canon 8-15mm
I was lucky and was getting ready to pay $600 for a new sigma 15.
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DorinDXN
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Location: Timisoara, Romania
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Re: Lens choice for 360 panos
Posted: 11 Jul 2012 at 9:50 GMT
updated: 11 Jul 2012 at 9:51 GMT
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jaredc said: I am putting together gear to shoot some simple 360 panoramas for a client. It will be hotel lobbies, rooms, maybe the pool area.
I will be using a canon 5d mkii, a nn4/ w/ the rd 16.
I would like to use either the canon 15mm fisheye or the 8mm sigma if it will produce great results.
I need to make 360's not vr or spherical panos.
Can anyone tell me if this setup is sufficient to make excellent panos even in a small hotel room?
What is the ideal lens length (mm) for doing this? The other lens I was considering was the Canon 8-15mm, but if this is overkill I would prefer not to spend the money.
Thanks,
jared
As a reference here is a basic tour shoot with Canon 350D + Sigma 8mm 3.5
www.dxn.ro/dorin/Continental3/
so your setup should be fine
cheers,
Dorin
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John Houghton
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Location: Hitchin, United Kingdom
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Re: Lens choice for 360 panos
Posted: 11 Jul 2012 at 12:21 GMT
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Jared, If you are content with a vertical field of view of 136°, then uing the 15mm lens will give you excellent results in an equirectangular image of 14800x5632 pixels. The 8mm lens will give you a full 360°x180° in 7120x3560, but wastes a lot of the 5D's pixels (blank area around the image circle). So if you already have these two lenses, I would recommend using the 15mm lens, but of course you can shoot some test panoramas and judge the results for yourself.
John
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mediavets
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Location: Isleham, Cambs., United Kingdom
Registered: 8 Feb 2008
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Re: Lens choice for 360 panos
Posted: 11 Jul 2012 at 14:36 GMT
updated: 11 Jul 2012 at 14:37 GMT
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jaredc said: I am putting together gear to shoot some simple 360 panoramas for a client. It will be hotel lobbies, rooms, maybe the pool area.
I will be using a canon 5d mkii, a nn4/ w/ the rd 16.
I would like to use either the canon 15mm fisheye or the 8mm sigma if it will produce great results.
I need to make 360's not vr or spherical panos.
So you intend to shoot only a single row is that correct?
Why is that?
The NN4 with R-D16 sounds like 'overkill' for shooting a single row.
Andrew
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