With the release of IOS 6 much has been written about how good it is to have a panoramic photo feature in iPhone. Since the iPhone 4 and 4s, the photographic quality of iPhones has enabled people to throw away their pocket cameras and take their happy snaps with the iPhone... sharing it more or less instantly with the world.
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 a new problem though 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. Because of parallax error objects in the photos will appear a little or a lot different across the frames making the panorama. It is then up to the app or stitching software to make sense of it. It is typical that the panoramic photo will be ruined because of the distortion as the photos are joined.
The problem of parallax has plagued photographic professionals for years, and they go to great lengths to fix it. The same problem of parallax has been solved on iPhones much simpler and with much less expense.
SLR photographers have gone to a lot of effort to overcome this error. Expensive cameras, custom camera mounts and a heavy tripod is just the start. Its heavy too, and they don't get to see the result until after the photos are processed by software. The high demand environments and competitive forces have placed this out of reach of the average business. The set up and processing time for a professional were too high. Too few web sites included this technology.
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 a new problem though 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. Because of parallax error objects in the photos will appear a little or a lot different across the frames making the panorama. It is then up to the app or stitching software to make sense of it. It is typical that the panoramic photo will be ruined because of the distortion as the photos are joined.
The problem of parallax has plagued photographic professionals for years, and they go to great lengths to fix it. The same problem of parallax has been solved on iPhones much simpler and with much less expense.
SLR photographers have gone to a lot of effort to overcome this error. Expensive cameras, custom camera mounts and a heavy tripod is just the start. Its heavy too, and they don't get to see the result until after the photos are processed by software. The high demand environments and competitive forces have placed this out of reach of the average business. The set up and processing time for a professional were too high. Too few web sites included this technology.
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