Has anyone done any 360° panos with the M3?

[sancap]

Since we do not have a pano mode yet I am taking the pics manually. Let me know your thoughts. Taken with the M3C

Bunces Pass 12-11-2021 © SanCap Aerial | Virtual tour generated by Panotour

 

[Lens]

Looks great sancap. Did you use the standard 26 pics for the 360°? The sky replacement is good and overall quality is amazing.

 

[sancap]

Looks great sancap. Did you use the standard 26 pics for the 360°? The sky replacement is good and overall quality is amazing.

Thanks, doing the pano manually I wound up with 28 images.

 

[akdrone]

Thanks, doing the pano manually I wound up with 28 images.

can you explain or point me to a tutorial on how you do a 360 pano with the M3?

 

[Arnold LeVine]

What web software or hosting do you use to make the pano viewable by us?

 

[sancap]

can you explain or point me to a tutorial on how you do a 360 pano with the M3?

I simply find a landmark starting point that I can remember and point the camera up so the horizon is in the bottom third of the screen (turn on grid lines). Then rotate the drone till your landmark is about 2/3rds of the way to the other side of the screen. Continue doing this till you have completed a 360. Next point the camera down till the horizon is in the middle to top third of the grid lines. Repeat this till you are pointing down about 75 degrees. Take a final shot or 2 pointing straight down. You can use auto exposure or switch to manual, your choice.

 

[sancap]

What web software or hosting do you use to make the pano viewable by us?

To stitch the pano together I use PTGUI Pro. I then use an older program called Pano Tour Pro to creat the pano and give it an html file but that sadly is no longer available. I host my panos on Amazon S3 simple server that make the url from the data I upload from pano tour pro. There are other programs available

 

[kodiak]

Looks great! And fantastic location!