Photo Sphere Camera
The American company Google has just published on the App Storeof Apple a new application named as Photo Sphere Camera This is an application intended for the mobiles of the iPhone range, and its function is to allow taking panoramic photographs in 360º degreesThese photographs allow us to capture the entire scene that surrounds us in the same image, so that we can later see our snapshots as if we were in the same place from which we took them.
The application of Photo Sphere Camera can be downloaded completely free of charge by following this link: https ://itunes.apple.com/app/id904418768?mt=8 . The file occupies a space of 18.7 MegaBytes, and in addition to being destined for the iPhone, it also It is compatible with iPad as long as they have the operating system iOS in itsversion iOS 7 or higher
The operation of Photo Sphere Camera is very simple. To take a 360 degree panoramic photo we must first open the application, and once we are inside, we must click on the icon orange color that appears at the bottom right of the screen (if this is the first time we open the application, first we will have to click on the "" button Skip» to skip the tutorial that appears at the beginning).By clicking on this orange icon we will see that a new screen is displayed in which, in a rectangle located in the center of the screen, we will see the scene that the camera of our iPhone is capturing. along with a white circumference and an orange circle (to see it we must have the mobile attached vertically to the ground). This text will appear just below this rectangle: «Point to point«, which is indicating that we should point the camera in such a way that the orange circle is inside the white circle We must keep the orange circle inside the white circle for several seconds, so in this step a lot of patience is required to avoid moving the camera during the focusing process.
Once the application has managed to prepare the scene for our 360 degree panoramic photography, the mobile will automatically take the first photograph corresponding to the panoramic image that we are making.From here we simply have to move the mobile slowly to the right (or to the left) waiting for the orange circle to appear again; at that moment we will have to re-frame it within the white circle until the mobile takes the next photograph, and so on until we finish giving a turn of 360 degrees
Once we have finished the panoramic photography through Photo Sphere Camera, the application will offer us the possibility of sharing the result of our work via Google Maps, Google+, Twitter , Facebook or email This way anyone You will be able to see the 360 degree panoramic photography that we have taken through the camera of our iPhone
