So, I want to capture images on the subway. I’m thinking about taking 360 panoramas (Android’s Photo Spheres) on the station every 10 meters along the center of the plataform(s) of the stations I visit.
The platform locations are mapped on OSM, so I’d have to manually enter GPS information on the pictures (that naturally wouldn’t be georeferenced when shoot because the stations are underground).
I was try to make photo spheres in Asus Nexus 7 in subway. There is too much poor aligin, even in new and bright station in frist day of work, so i not upload these to mapillary.
Of course it does, but in the other hand a) it’s way faster to capture the panoramas, and b) you don’t get stitch problems when things move everywhere in the image (people on the sidewalk, cars on the street etc).
I don’t think you want to hold it in your hand for longer sequences, but you want to mount it on a stick or monopod and then you could mount a disc between camera and stick so you don’t see the photographer. @peter promised me I could try the theta, so I’ll try some different setups then
Some lessons learnt in the process of taking Photo Spheres with Google Camera:
Take as much time as possible between shooting photo spheres. The app does the processing, and it gets slow, and it gets hot. The app will crash, some of the panoramas with have black areas or be missing entirely. The rendering process fails silently.
Have as much free space as possible, because even though a final sphere is only ~6MBs, it will need a lot of space to take the 54 photos (with ~4MB each) and join them.
Bottomline: It is not worthy the work. Better take many common pictures, at least until I get a Theta.