Hello Kevin, I looked into this quite a bit for doing Virtual Tours for real estate. The basic issue is that Ipix bought the technology for dealing with 360 panos and then started suing anyone who was doing anything along the same lines. So several other players got out of the business.
The real problem with Ipix is that they charge a royalty for every pano that you create/publish. There are one or two that have come up with a license through Ipix that doesn't ding you too bad, but it requires using a P&S camera with a fisheye lens - like the old coolpix 950/990. The problem for DSLR's is the crop factor - this makes it so you can't get a 180 in one shot. So then you are faced with multiple shots and stitching. Once you have solved that problem, you need to deal with a viewer of sorts for the web. There are java, flash, quicktime and possibly a few others. After trying things like the Sigma fisheye and partial fisheyes and trying to stitch them together and then show them through viewing software (pretty much frustrating failures) I finally got a parabolic mirror for shooting the entire 360 in one shot. http://www.0-360.com/ While you don't get 360 vertically, for practical purposes, it covers enough. For showing I use some software that creates a whole virtual tour. http://www.360dof.com/ If all you want to do is show your panos, you can get by with the viewer from the 0-360 outfit. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, September 12, 2005, 5:14:01 PM, you wrote: KW> I have been looking at iPix ( www.ipix.com ) but it is majorly geared up KW> for the canon G6. I there something more generic to make 360 degree KW> panoramas, then have them mashed into a little 360 degree image that KW> is able to be panned? KW> What are folks using for tripod mounts for 360 degree images. KW> What other equipment could be recommended? KW> Kind regards KW> Kevin
