360 degree panorama gear

Pat Cooney wrote:
Hi all,

I have been hired to take some 360 degree QTVR photos for a
client. I currently am using a manfrotto QTVR head that works great
for most of the images my client wants, but there is one image in
particular that I'm concerned about.

The image requires a lot of people to be in the shot, and to be in
movement when photoed, if that makes any sense. It's a photo of a
train station, and he wants people stepping off and on the train and
milling about the station, but done in a 360 degree panoramic shot.

I have no clue how to do this with the tradition way of rotating
the camera 20 degrees or whatever and shooting photo after photo.

I recently purchased a mirror apparatus that fits onto the lens of
the camera and allows me to take a 360 photo with one shot from VR
interactive (www.vri.ca). This idea seemed perfect because then I
could capture all sorts of motion without worrying about how to
stitch it. The problem is, the mirror is of poor quality and I'll
never been able to capture a nice, high res image using it.

I was wondering if any of you had any ideas, maybe on a mirror
type apparatus of higher quality or of a technique using the
tradtional 360 pano head that would allow me to capture that motion.

Maybe a Cirkut camera? Don't think that would give you 360 though...

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