360 degree photography

[thetapeworm]

Having got into 360 degree photos on my phone with mixed results I decided to move on to an actual 360 camera last year and bought one of the first Xiaomi Mijia 360 cameras from China. Since then I've been through 10s of firmware updates, various apps and lots of playing around to a point where I'm now fairly happy with the output from this little entry-level device.

It's amazing to see how the technology is jumping forward with things like the Matterport camera and some of the high-end professional stuff that's appearing now.

I was just curious if anyone on here is playing around with 360, either with a DSLR and stitching or with dedicated 360 cameras. Perhaps there are pro 360 people on here I can pester for help too?

[thetapeworm]

Great reply, just the kind of thing I was hoping someone might come back with

I have a "proper" camera and was toying with the idea of using that as an alternative to the 360 one as the resolution is far superior but for now I'm just playing around and doing some fairly basic images for people.

As you say it seems to be a fairly untapped area at the moment that's likely to gain popularity, a lot of the chaps on the product specific groups I'm on are also proper photographers and the work they are doing for estate agents and the like are really impressive.

Despite using a 360 camera my workflow is still fairly intensive at the moment, I used to shoot RAW, edit the image to improve colour etc, stitch with a piece of software called MiSphere Converter and then do some additional tinkering in PhotoDirector 9.0. I am now looking at bracketed JPGs and PhotoMatix software to combine these as the people doing tours with this camera seem to be having great results.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[thetapeworm]

Crazy that safeguarding wasn't already high on their list of considerations, I was going to do my daughter's school for my own practice and to give them a free extra for their website, one of my big overheads was always going to be blurring things on walls.

[thetapeworm]

I want to get on the face blurring gig