How to shoot fisheye photos for creating panorama?

Fisheye lenses that can be used for taking fisheye photos

The following fisheye lenses are mostly used on digital SLR cameras to take fisheye images, 

Sigma 8mm F3.5(or F4) EX DG Circular Fisheye	Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Diagonal Fisheye Autofocus Lens	Canon Fisheye EF 15mm f/2.8 Autofocus Lens	AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED

Fisheye photo taken by Canon EOS with Sigma 8mm fisheye lens:


There are also fisheye converters for Nikon Coolpix series to get full circular fisheye photos.
Nikon Fisheye Converter FC-E8
Nikon Fisheye Converter FC-E9Full circular fisheye photos taken by Nikon Coolpix 5000 with FC-E9:  It is easy to shoot fisheye photos for creating panorama with panorama software Panoweaver. Follow the steps below, and you are able to create your own panorama with Panoweaver easily and fast. In order to stitch panorama with Panoweaver, you need digital camera, fisheye lens, pano head and tripod. Refer to Panoweaver compatible equipment.

Pano Head:
Pano Head is also called tripod panoramic head, or rotator. To understand the function of pano head, "nodal point" should be explained first. The nodal point is a special point in space, where light entering the lens converges into a point and then diverges to impact on the recording medium. As one rotates a camera and shoots a sequence of photos to later be stitched together, all of the photos must be shot with the camera rotating about its nodal point! The pano head is just used for this purpose. 

Resource:
www.easypano.com

360 Panoramic Virtual Tour Travel of China

360 virtual tourVirtual Tour Travel of China Do you plan to travel in China? Before implementing the plan, travel China in virtual tour to target your destination. Shanghai City Jiangsu Province   Zhejiang Province   360 China, part of EP-SKY, which is a free platform of sharing panoramas and virtual tours, shares more than 3,000 panoramas of famous attractions in China at present and more 360 images would be uploaded gradually. Another good news, latest Panoweaver 8.60 with more advanced features and fewer price is now available at Easypano, check to learn more: http://www.easypano.com/panorama-software.html

Easypano photo stitching software Panoweaver 8.60

Main Features and Advantaes of Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition 

• 300 groups images Batch stitching and HDR image stitching
• Customizable branding (URL in right-click context menu)
• Easy publishing into Flash/HTML5/swf/QTVR tours

Main Features Advantges: http://www.easypano.com/panorama-software/features.html

Check Edition Comparison of Panoweaver Pro and Standard: http://www.easypano.com/Panorama-software-55_502.html

 

What can virtual tour be used for? Which software is better to make the panorama virtual tour?

What can virtual tour be used for? Which software is better to make the panorama virtual tour?

What can virtual tour be used for? Which software is better to make the panorama virtual tour?
Best answer:

Answer by Joe
Virtual Tours can be widely used in many areas like real estate illustration, webpage designing, multimedia designing, museum, scenic spot,police inspectation,advertisement designing and panoramic photography.
The virtual tour presentation software, Tourweaver 7 can create a wonderful virtual tour with multiple spherical, cylindrical and still images. Moreover ,with the features of 3D object modeling, hotspots, popup window, sound, flash, video, Google Map, Google Maps Street View, iPhone and iPad viewing and multi-language, you will have an immersive experience as if you’re in the scene. With its friendly interface, easy to learn and to use features, either novices or professionals can build a brilliant virtual tour with Tourweaver.

You can download it here:
http://www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software.html
http://www.easypano.com/

Hope this is helpful.