Description
High definition and fast panoramic camera:- Free (no ads)
- Highest resolution
- Fast and smooth panorama stitching
- Easy to use
- Augmented reality helps to get perfect panorama
- Up to 360 degree panorama (only limited by available memory)
Put your device in portrait orientation, tap shutter button, slowly sweep to the left or right, tap button again to stop shooting.
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When shooting nature, camera optics rarely allow to capture complete landscape in it's beauty, not just chopping off small piece.
Indoor, it is rarely possible to move far enough to cover the space completely. A number of frames has to be taken or special optics (fisheye) should be used.
In these cases panorama is the solution.
Usually, panorama on mobile devices is shoot using either of two methods:
- sweep panorama - shooting is running continuously, and camera is rotated slowly and smoothly to capture entire scene.
- pan-and-shoot panorama - multiple separate frames are shot: shoot - rotate - shoot - rotate, etc.
Both cases have their own drawbacks.
In case of sweep panorama the shooting is actually happening in video mode and the height of panorama is limited by maximum resolution for shooting video (for the majority of mobile devices it is 1280 pixels). Also, it is impossible to get sharp result under low-light illumination, since camera is always in movement, and exposure for each frame is rather long. On the other hand, on devices without gyroscope, sweep panorama usually will give better stitching results.
Pan-and-shoot method allow to shoot panorama of maximum resolution, limited only by amount of available free memory on device. If device is equipped with gyro - it is possible to rotate camera quickly from one shot to another. In this case it is also possible to select the most appropriate focusing mode: autofocus, focus to infinity, or continuous focusing.
HD Panorama implements both shooting methods.
One of the problems while shooting panorama - the necessity to strictly keep camera orientation to avoid distortion of horizon line, and to avoid 'curvature' on frame sequence. Otherwise only a narrow area will come out as a result of stitching. In HD Panorama there are 'augmented reality' guides. These are showing clearly how to orient camera to get ideal result. When using augmented reality - it is simply impossible to shoot the frame which will drop out of panorama line of sight.
HD Panorama is stitching frames taking into account possible deviations in illumination between frames and presence of moving objects in panorama field. HD Panorama is reproducing dynamic range of the scene to the maximum extent and minimizing the moving objects stitching errors (ghosting removal).
If you are a professional photographer, HD Panorama will allow to save the input frames captured, and stitch and possibly adjust them on your personal computer.
For user convenience HD Panorama uses elements of Google Camera app UI under Apache license. Processing is done with proprietary Almalence algorithms, resulting in a drastic quality difference (highest resolution, dynamic range, etc).
A Google User
Mar 4, 2013 9:21:41 AM
Too much! I'm thankful for this free version. I learned that this app takes up lots of memory. More than my phone has to offer. When it works, it's brilliant. Most of the time it doesn't. Samsung Galaxy Reverb. Uninstalling, but keeping for future phones...
A Google User
Mar 4, 2013 5:32:58 AM
Horrible Doesn't work on desire c
A Google User
Mar 3, 2013 2:37:31 AM
Love it ...
A Google User
Mar 1, 2013 1:28:42 PM
Samsung galaxy s3 Great app 4 fun!!!
A Google User
Feb 27, 2013 6:10:14 PM
Derek Bateman I purchased Almalence's HDR Camera+ after testing the demo, this is very good. Due to that I then went straight ahead and bought HDR Panorama+. What a mistake! I find the same as RenaldiK teh app exits when you press "close shutter button". Nothing is processed or indeed saved. Installed on Xperia T running Jelly Bean 4.1.2 with apps default settings. Have also tried changing some settings, then the app does "process" after shutter closed, however, saves a very distorted picture. Have e-mailed, but nothing heard back yet?
A Google User
Feb 27, 2013 12:33:10 PM
Very bad Not downloding
A Google User
Feb 26, 2013 9:49:58 AM
best
A Google User
Feb 26, 2013 9:05:25 AM
Nice Good
A Google User
Feb 26, 2013 7:21:20 AM
Good not best
A Google User
Feb 25, 2013 7:30:29 PM
Version 2.12 Force Close During Saving It was working fine before, but now after update to latest version 2.12, the app force close everytime during saving of picture after it was taken. Now, it's useless.