Use Photo stitching software to stitch 360 degree panoramic pictures.

To create panoramic pictures covering 360 degree field of view with least number of photos, you may use: Digital camera + Fisheye lens + Pano Head + Tripod.

Digital camera with high resolution can offer great details of the panorama location. Fisheye lens offers greater field of view, for example, Sigma 8mm F4 EX DG Fisheye lens has a 180 degree angle of view. So, only 4 images are needed to cover 360 * 180 degree. The above spherical 360 picture was stitched from fisheye photos taken by Nikon D70 & Sigma 8mm Fisheye lens. Visit how to take fisheye photos page to get detailed instructions before shooting with your fisheye lens.

If you have no professional equipment for taking fisheye pictures, you may use standard digital camera to take continuous series of pictures and stitch with Panoweaver to get a 360 panoramic image like the above cylindrical one. To take normal digital pictures, a pano head and a tripod are also needed in order to get high quality 360 degree panoramic pictures. Welcome to choose AFI high quality panorma head to take 360 panoramic pictures.