Lenses + panohead to capture a full 360 image with 4 photographs

[Rafael G Paz Forum Member]

Hello everyone!

Thank you very much in advance for helping me.

I’ve got a Canon 5D and I’d like to purchase a lenses and a panoramic head to capture full 360 panoramas taking only 4 photographs. I don’t care very much about the nadir, but I really need to shoot only 4 images in total.

Which focal length should I use?

Can anyone recommend a good panoramic head?

Thanks!!!

[May Sara Forum Member]

Hey there!

How about buying 360 camera.. I bought one for my photography. It’s really cool.
It’s been 5 mos. and I am enjoying my captures.

[Sam Rohn IVRPA Director Member webmaster]

samyang 8mm or canon 8-15mm are both good choices for fisheye lens that will capture an entire sphere with 4 images on full frame camera

Samyang 8mm f/3.5 HD Fisheye Lens with Removable Hood for Canon (about $250)

https://www.adorama.com/syhd8mca.html

Canon EF 8-15mm f/4.0L USM Wide Fisheye Zoom Lens (about $1300)

https://www.adorama.com/ca8154.html

Nodal Ninja R1 panohead kit with appropriate lens ring is my choice to use with this sort of lens, i use same head with nikon full frame body and 10.5mm fisheye

R1 w/RD5 Adj.Tilt Pkg (F6120V)

also see this series of tutorials by florian knorn for more info on shooting and stitching with this sort of fisheye

sam

Sam Rohn :: New York City
360° Panoramic Photography :: www.samrohn.com
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[Rafael G Paz Forum Member]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions,

At the end I went for the Sigma 8mm F3.5 Canon with the Nodal Ninja UR20

Cheers!

[360VR Photography IVRPA Professional Member]

That’s exactly what I use Rafael. I take 6 shots though to reduce the nadir and use PTGui for the stitching.

http://360VR-Photography.com

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