Giroptic Develops 360° Solutions

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RISMEDIA, Dec. 11, 2008-In the world of photography, the perfect panoramic shot has always been a bit of a Holy Grail made possible only with workarounds.

For those who wanted to take photographs that really reflected the way we see the world the choices were simple enough. You either used the best possible fish-eye lens you could on a high-quality camera (and learned to live with the distortions) or you became a digital editing whiz able to take a bunch of ordinary, consecutive, overlapping shots and then spend a few hours in a photo-editing suite air-brushing and stitching them altogether.

It’s no surprise that when it came to panoramic shots the actuality always fell short of the practice. Until now. Giroptic is a French company which has broken new ground in panoramic digital photography and has the world patents to prove it.

According to the company, their revolutionary one-click digital camera uses a cutting-edge combination of hardware and software to live up to its name. You position it in the centre of the panoramic shot you want to take and press the button. Once. That’s it. With the picture take you have a perfect panoramic 360° of the surroundings which can be used to show what a landscape, neighborhood or building interior is like.

This, says the company, makes the camera the perfect solution for surveyors, Realtors and estate agents as well as artists, catalogue photographers and almost anyone who needs to take high-quality panoramic pictures fast and dreads the cost and effort involved in their creation.

Giroptic is a company with a thoroughly modern understanding of their market. They know perfectly well that those who need panoramic shots the most have the least time to mess with the technology and have need for more than one format. This is why they have created the world’s first, one click, 360° panoramic camera and then worked to create a Web platform which allows the uploading of the digital photographic image, which is then turned into a flash-programming based virtual tour.

While the programming to make all this happen is complicated, its use is not, making it as easy for the complete novice to create powerful panoramic presentations as for the more experienced user of digital technology. The Giroptic team has worked hard to create flexibility. Once you have uploaded your photograph, clicked and created your virtual tour you can then do with it whatever you like. You can download it and embed it on your website. You can link to it and show it on your website. You can download it and carry it with you in your laptop or PDA.

For more information, visit http://www.giroptic.com.

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