The Droid X's camera has a special panorama mode. All you have to do is move the camera and it automatically snaps the pictures at the right time and stitches them when you're done. A friend showed this to me last week, and it worked really well.
@milkmage
Not really. Especially for a point a shoot. I hear that Nokia phones are pretty damn good at taking photos and video. Better then some point and shoot cameras.
I also quickly looked at the 4th gen iPhone. I wanted to see how quickly it was ready to take another picture. It rivals my Sony when it comes to single shots and blows my older digital cameras out of the water.
And when you throw in items that come standard for phones now such as:
digital compass and GPS, but are considered (sometimes pricey extras) for cameras. It's not such a shock that a phone can be as good as or better then a dedicated camera when it comes to pictures or even video.
Matter of fact, if phone designers start including better sensors and lenses into their phones, there may be even less of a reason to carry around a point a shoot when you can have just as good of a picture from the phone you normally carry around.
@andreo
The main problem is the lens, you just can't fit a decent sized lens into a phone like the iphone. You can make the photo look better but having high quality components can only get you so far. The speed of taking a photo should be good because phones have large memory and a fast processor (if you take burst shots most cameras will compress on the fly and push it into ram because writing straight onto memory card is too slow). The difference is bigger in low light.
falldogJul 31, 2010Buried
That is a f**king terrible looking panorama.
n0diggityJul 31, 2010Buried
Am I the only one who thinks that looks like s**t?
andrew311Jul 30, 2010Buried
Now just make it for Android ;)
roiperezJul 31, 2010Buried
Sorry for the double post - but I thought I'd try and let everyone know how "awesome" it is....
http://imgur.com/s0LW9.jpg
Above is one I took 2 minutes ago. Not worth the the money at all.
johnb41Jul 31, 2010Buried
The Droid X's camera has a special panorama mode. All you have to do is move the camera and it automatically snaps the pictures at the right time and stitches them when you're done. A friend showed this to me last week, and it worked really well.
It does it with photos, not video. But who cares!
kooftJul 31, 2010Buried
Much better looking too:
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/07/26/motorola-droid-x-panorama-assist-video-demo/
http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/motorola-droid-x-panorama-san-francisco.jpg
la7dfaJul 31, 2010Buried
360 without a decent camera and a good tripod sucks....
ricemonsterJul 31, 2010Buried
It looks like the CNET office is melting.
ksowockiJul 30, 2010Buried
Sick!
wwwoodyJul 31, 2010Buried
Time to get to work making one. I smell money.
roiperezJul 31, 2010Buried
The reviews on the app store say that the photo quality the pictures come out in is quite poor. Anyone tried it?
dougs55Jul 31, 2010Buried
Looks like you really need a tripod to use this :)
I checked the app store and noticed that this app isn't that highly rated and some similar apps actually are.
andrewhydeJul 30, 2010Buried
Works really well outside, fun to use and demo.
andreoJul 31, 2010Buried
Compare that with a 180 panorama taken with a Sony P&S:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/4833095281_0d95198c58_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4795169877_c21da92924_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4830348274_c621b94bf4_o.jpg
Not the best, but not a bad job either for a point and shoot with no tripod.
milkmageJul 31, 2010Buried
woah.
a real camera takes better pictures than a phone?
in f**king credible
andreoJul 31, 2010Buried
@milkmage
Not really. Especially for a point a shoot. I hear that Nokia phones are pretty damn good at taking photos and video. Better then some point and shoot cameras.
I also quickly looked at the 4th gen iPhone. I wanted to see how quickly it was ready to take another picture. It rivals my Sony when it comes to single shots and blows my older digital cameras out of the water.
And when you throw in items that come standard for phones now such as:
digital compass and GPS, but are considered (sometimes pricey extras) for cameras. It's not such a shock that a phone can be as good as or better then a dedicated camera when it comes to pictures or even video.
Matter of fact, if phone designers start including better sensors and lenses into their phones, there may be even less of a reason to carry around a point a shoot when you can have just as good of a picture from the phone you normally carry around.
quantumstatejimAug 1, 2010Buried
@andreo
The main problem is the lens, you just can't fit a decent sized lens into a phone like the iphone. You can make the photo look better but having high quality components can only get you so far. The speed of taking a photo should be good because phones have large memory and a fast processor (if you take burst shots most cameras will compress on the fly and push it into ram because writing straight onto memory card is too slow). The difference is bigger in low light.
zalysterJul 31, 2010Buried
But that's where content aware fill comes in!
philbertJul 31, 2010Buried
Check out Microsoft ICE too it does a fantastic job and it's free
howitzer86Jul 31, 2010Buried
Yeah, this is pretty bad. Also for free you can make better panoramas with Hugin.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/