The "poor man's tennis ball photo-sphere helper", laid out on the table. Tie a knock in either side so the three pieces stay connected.
Take an 8 foot length of string (should be taller than you are), thread it twice through the end piece (the end piece will be in the middle), then thread one end into the little hole in the tennis ball and the other end into your bottle cap.Use some nail scissors to drill a tiny hole into the bottom of the tennis ball, another though the end piece, and one in the side of the bottle cap.Check that your phone can take picture out the front - you may need to trim the hole wider.
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(the video shows how to mark accurate cutting lines) Cut a slit so that your smartphone can sit upside-down with it's lens resting in the dead center of the tennis ball.Cut a out a small circle at the front for the camera to look out of and keep the circular "end piece" that you cut off.The video explains better, but basically you want: 8 mins (about the same time as it takes to make) How to build your own "poor mans tennis ball photosphere helper" And sure it looks a little dorky, but it gets the job done, and you can make your own very quickly! It's a fun little project I call it the " tennis ball photosphere helper". On this page I have a cheap way you can reduce parallax using a tennis ball and a string. This introduced " parallax error" which can ruin the stitching and affect the quality of your final photosphere.īecause of how parallax works, the effect is worst with close objects - so if you're taking a photosphere of far away scenery it might be fine, but if there is any tree branch, or chair, or even the ground, which comes too close - you will probably get a funky photosphere.Ī tripod can help, but it's not very portable, and unless you pay top dollar for one that can rotate around an arbitrary axis, your lens will not stay centered when you tilt, and the tripod is a pain to carry around.
Unfortunately, as you're spinning in a circle, and pointing your camera up or down, it gets very difficult to keep your camera lens at a fixed point. Using Android's "photosphere" (part of the new Google Camera) you turn your smartphone to take a photos in every direction, and then it stitches them together into a 360 degree panorama or " photosphere" which you can then interact with and/or upload to Google maps.
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Inserting an Android (camera phone) into the "poor man's tennis ball photo-sphere helper".
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