Cheap 360 Degree Camera

[PhotoMaster]

I picked up a cheap 360 degree camera from LG. Based on the reviews, people either love it or hate it. I'm still figuring it out but it seems pretty decent. Here I took some 360 degree panos and used Gimp to turn them into spheres. (I used the Polar Coordinates filter) I hope you like them.


Gazebo1 - A Self Portrait

Gimping - Another Self Portrait

My Planet

[lylejk]

Looks like a great way to create micro worlds, Greg. How much does such a camera cost?

[PhotoMaster]

$111.21 for the camera, $24.57 for a 64G memory card and $15.52 for a 4 year service plan.

[molly]

Very cool photomaster, Since you are a photographer by trade it will come in handy. lol

[PhotoMaster]

What's very interesting about this camera, is that the jpg image it creates is full 360, top and bottom, but when you pull it up in an editing program like Gimp you lose the very top and bottom and the stitching always as good. It is something I will play with to get the whole image.

[iarga]

PhotoMaster, I like this very much. Your first photo is nice. I like gazebos, pavilion structures and bandstands.

Nice new toy, you have there.

[PhotoMaster]

Thank You, Thank You!

I must correct my prior post.
All the top and bottom data are included in the jpg. It's just how it gets folded. I am having fun, for sure!

[Skinnyhouse]

Mmm - very interesting - memo to self to hint for next birthday - any chance of posting an image before applying the polar co-ordinates filter PM? Perhaps the Gazebo?

[PhotoMaster]

Here is a file directly from the camera, without any modification. If you put it into Google Maps you can fully pan around with it and see it's actual detail. I haven't tried Google Maps yet but it is supposed to be the correct format.

EDIT: The pictures simply had to be uploaded. It worked out very well. The images are clearer on my phone and on my PC than they are on Google Maps.

[PhotoMaster]

Here are links to google maps with two of my pix.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8228608 ... 660!8i2830

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Forke ... 74.1614699

[sallyanne]

Cool. I like the first one

[Skinnyhouse]

Thanks for the before image PM.

[sallyanne]

Followed your link to Google and had a look at other photos you have there. Nice work

[PhotoMaster]

Thank You Muchly! The camera is super simple but works surprisingly well! I recommend it!

[PhotoMaster]

I took a 360 degree picture and processed it in Gimp using Shellout to call to Anamorph (something I think I found here. The full sized image is 55Mb, but has incredible detail. (I'm the bald guy up top)
The full sized image can be seen at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/photomast ... 3/sizes/o/

[PhotoMaster]

Here I used the camera's app on my phone to export a good quality, wide image.
I then used G'Mic>Deformations>Sphere to get a much nicer result than with Anamorph.
G'Mic to the rescue!

MyHomePlanet.png (4.13 MiB) Viewed 931 times

Mathis Plaza.png (3.45 MiB) Viewed 931 times

[sallyanne]

[PhotoMaster]

Here is an important update (WARNING) on the LG 360 degree camera!

Still photos can be transferred through the phone app or via a USB cable, without a problem. Videos, however, MUST be transferred through the phone app. Transferring the files by USB gives an unstitched video that CANNOT be stitched after the fact! What's worse is that the files get large quickly and a 20 minute file is just over 2G. The phone app will not allow you to transfer large files. Trying to download a 20 minute file gives the error that the phone does not have enough free space to download, OR VIEW, the file. That's right! You can't even view it! This is on a phone with 8.5Gb free on the phone and another 13+ free on the SD card. The developers literally told me it is too hard (???) to write the code to allow the file to be downloaded directly to the SD card! Every other app developer can do it but LG can't?? The support person on the phone said it would work if I took a few hundred and bought an LG phone.
Sorry LG! I'm not buying anything from you again!!!

I love the camera but HATE their tech support/customer dis-service. Amazon's site says it's too late to return it, but I will talk to an Amazon rep to try and get it returned anyway.

[Wallace]

Here is an important update (WARNING) on the LG 360 degree camera!

Still photos can be transferred through the phone app or via a USB cable, without a problem. Videos, however, MUST be transferred through the phone app. Transferring the files by USB gives an unstitched video that CANNOT be stitched after the fact! What's worse is that the files get large quickly and a 20 minute file is just over 2G. The phone app will not allow you to transfer large files. Trying to download a 20 minute file gives the error that the phone does not have enough free space to download, OR VIEW, the file. That's right! You can't even view it! This is on a phone with 8.5Gb free on the phone and another 13+ free on the SD card. The developers literally told me it is too hard (???) to write the code to allow the file to be downloaded directly to the SD card! Every other app developer can do it but LG can't?? The support person on the phone said it would work if I took a few hundred and bought an LG phone.
Sorry LG! I'm not buying anything from you again!!!

I love the camera but HATE their tech support/customer dis-service. Amazon's site says it's too late to return it, but I will talk to an Amazon rep to try and get it returned anyway.

That sucks!
It took such nice photos too.

[PhotoMaster]

I really love the camera. The app is terrible and the only thing worse than the app is the lack of support.
Now I see why everyone on the site is giving them bad reviews. They are aware of the problem but won't
fix it. Everyone is having the problem of transferring files.