fellipe de paula
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360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 2:45 GMT
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Anyone can share tips on how to make a 360ยบ pano inside a car? Any tripod recomendation?
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Doug Aurand
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 3:29 GMT
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fellipe
The most popular method is to put the camera & panoramic head on a pole or your tripod extension, put it through the driver's window horizontally, rotating horizontally as you shoot
Then you flip the scene upright in PTGui when you stitch
Later
Doug Aurand
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fellipe de paula
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 4:36 GMT
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lol, and I thought I should put a mini tripod inside the car 
Thanks Doug
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 5:19 GMT
updated: 14 Mar 2011 at 16:13 GMT
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The easy way to do it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y61KWJeVKUk
I did this right after getting the automatic head, and things were still disorganized. The only manual part needed there is to shoot the nadir shot, while everything else will be perfect. You could shoot a darn gigapixel pano from inside the car... and that would be the world's first of it's kind.
The head is cheap, even when you have to purchase the additional parts (remote and blue tooth unit and a small tripod).
Today most people shooting car interiors do indeed use a monopod through the window as Dough pointed out, but if one does have an automatic head, that would be the only sensible way of doing the job... especially if you have several car interiors to shoot.
Trausti
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sapper
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Doug Aurand
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 13:17 GMT
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fellipe
I've also heard of photographers holding the camera on a pole upside down through the sun roof, then flipping it 180 degrees in PTGui
Assuming you have a car with a sunroof 
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David Tan
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 14:00 GMT
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Trausti:
Thanks for the video! Where did you buy that automatic head? Can automatic head completely replace the manual head for most VR works? Do you have any video that shows the working of manual pano head inside the car? I am curious how sapper did it without automatic pano head.
sapper:
Nice Hyundai with great live surroundings! How long did it take you to do the post-processing work? What kind of camera and lens you used for that particular work? It looks so sharp and detailed!
stalwart:
Is that your Audi? It's a very nice car inside! How do you make the outside surrounding becomes completely white?
Thanks!
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 14:30 GMT
updated: 14 Mar 2011 at 16:13 GMT
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I got lucky and bought the whole setup from Frank (Bigwade).
You can read more about this head, and find links to very relevant sites for it here:
flashificator.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1564
If you buy the head, the price is somewhere under $300, and a bluetooth device is around $150 plus the Nokia for remote... or you can simply use a laptop as a remote control (through bluetooth).
It is a very good equipment, and I will be long dead and gone from this universe before I feel differently
This head is not fast, and does take it's time to shoot the photos, but it is very precise and for panos without anything moving around in them, it would be perfect... you can simply sit down and have some coffee or a beer while the head does all the work.
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David Tan
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 15:04 GMT
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Thanks for the flashificator.com link, I read all your comments there. Do you have the completed car VR done with this automatic pano? I wonder how you shoot the nadir since the tripod and the head are taking some spaces there.
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 at 1:37 GMT
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Hi Martin:
Thanks for sharing your great car vr, the result is just as excellent as those taking it with the automatic pano head and regular tripod.
I wonder about the position of the pole inside the car and how the camera can stay on the same axis throughout the shooting. Sorry, I just cannot understand how the camera can be maintained at the same position at all times.
Maybe someone can enlighten my limited visualization on pole technique? thanks
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 at 3:39 GMT
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Outside the car you have a tripod.
On that tripod you attach a monopod that goes horizontally through the window of the car.
The window can be used as a support under the monopod.
The tripod should have something heavy hung from the center column to prevent it from tipping and to keep it stable.
The camera is mounted on a pano head(NN R1 would be a splendid choice if you have a lens that fits)
The monopod must be able to be turned with the camera.
Remote shutter.
All done...
To the best of my knowledge that is the basic concept of normal car panos.
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fellipe de paula
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 at 3:48 GMT
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how to attach a monopod horizontally on a tripod?
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Doug Aurand
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Re: 360 pano inside a car?
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 at 14:50 GMT
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fellipe
The Manfrotto 055XPROB can switch the center column from vertical to horizontal, although you may need a longer center column for many cars
You'll probably have to modify or make something like you did to covert the monopod to a tripod pole extension
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