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Pano App for iPhone, Dermandar: It’s so Easy.

If you like panos like I like panos, you will love Dermandar. The beauty of the Dermandar iPhone app is in its simplicity. If you can keep your phone level and turn counterclockwise, you can make a seamless pano with Dermandar. It is as simple as this. Just hold your phone level, click the camera icon, and turn counterclockwise until the two little swooshy-looking things come together and turn green. If you have more to capture, then you are ready to turn again. Repeat until you are finished or until you have gone 360 degrees and the app will tell you to stop. Read More→

Simply the Best Way to Take Panos on your iPhone…from Microsoft

I recently reviewed an app that allows you to easily do panoramic photos. But what do you call a pano on steroids? Our friends at Microsoft call it Photosynth. I call it super cool!

Photosynth allows you to (easily) take a series of photos using your iPhone. The app then stitches them together to create one awesome pano of your shots. Here’s the cool part…You don’t have to start on the far left side and then shoot the next one and…You simply take a shot. Move the device until the box shows a green outline and it will automatically load that data. Repeat all over the scene until you have your shot. At that point you simply click “Finish” and your pano is stitched. You may then view by scrolling on the iPhone or click “Share” to send to Facebook, publish to Bing Maps, or upload to Photosynth.net. It also saves a copy in your camera roll. Read More→

Get Your Pano on with Panorama Free

Have you ever bought one of those disposable panoramic cameras? Probably not. Readers of CurrentPhotographer.com are probably to technologically advanced for those. Your probably shoot panoramas in your sleep, stitching them together effortlessly. Not me. I haven’t done much pano stuff, but I recall taking some cool shots using a disposable pano film camera. When it comes to panos I like simple.

That’s what I was looking for when I began to look for a pano camera app for my iPhone. And found it, I did.

Panorama Free by Free the Apps is an easy-to-use  and cool panorama app. Okay, it’s not as easy as a point and shoot disposable pano camera, but it’s close. You simply start on the left side of your frame. Take the first shot then pan right, line up the ghosted edge of your other shot and shoot the next one. Shampoo, rinse, repeat. Or something like that.

As you can see, the app takes some nice shots. If I had a wish list I would hope for a built-in app that would let me edit the photo to correct the bands caused by different lighting. However, at free you can’t beat the price. So download, synch and shoot.

All the best…Mike