Street View Best Practices: Essential 360 Photography Guidelines

Follow these five core rules on every shoot:

1. Eye-Level Height (1.5m): Maintain lens height at 1.5m from floor level.
2. Multi-Exposure HDR: Capture 3 or 5 bracketed exposures to preserve window and indoor shadow detail.
3. Slim Light Stand Footprint: Use carbon fiber light stands with small footprints to minimize nadir shadows.
4. Clean Nodal Point Alignment: Ensure dual camera lenses remain centered on the light stand axis.
5. Nadir Tripod Blur: Apply a 512x512px transparent PNG logo disk over camera stand footprints.

Using an all-in-one dual-sensor 360 camera like the Ricoh Theta Z1 allows photographers to complete a 15-node commercial shoot in under 20 minutes, maximizing daily job output and studio profitability.