[tomtomtoo]

December 11, 2009 at 10:02 pm

Hi

Thought I should chip in here.

The response from potential VirtualVisit Photographers has been fantastic and we are very excited about moving forward with the project. Thank you to ALL that have expressed an interest so far. Further information has been mailed to you and I can see a snippet of it, the fee for training and equipment, has ended up here.

Damiend

should be BUY their own equipment

nfl-fan

Wow… free equipment… I’m in, I’m in. Doh… €2700 fee… I’m out, I’m out.

Apologies if the OP was mis-leading for you, it wasn’t intended to be…after all ‘there are no free dinners’.

Yes, those photographers who expressed an interest in the Project will have seen a sign up fee of 2,700 EUR. Apart from covering Equipment and Training it essentially boils down to one thing. Intellectual Property (IP).

What was meant is that as Virtual Visit Photographers, who will be sub-contracted out to take VR’s for us, the equipment is yours to keep.

If the role was flipped and we directly employed our photographers then ALL equipment and IP remains with the company and the photographer would not be free to use the skills imparted outside of the company.

By sub-contracting this way, the photographers that we train are free to commit as much or as little time to Virtual Visit work PLUS have the additional benefit of taking the IP we impart and use it for their own commercial gain outside of the Virtual Visit remit.

What is missing from these posts is that our VR Photographers will be paid half of the sign up fee back during a content generation phase. Post content generation phase our VR Photographers invoice on a monthly basis for work completed. ALL payments are made in Sterling and converted to Euros at the time of payment.

jb7. We DO NOT use

a p&s and a hemispherical mirror on a stick…

The results would not pass our Quality Control.

brianmacl

I think to do 360s properly you need a good tripod, pano head, desent dSLR, wide angle lens,…

Whole heartedly agree!

We use professional equipment which is extremely portable and light weight providing streamlined workflow to generate high quality VR’s in as short a time as possible.
Without going into too much detail, the equipment we use and that our photographers get is;

• Canon DSLR. Not a top of the range modal (10MP) as our work is for the web and therefore 72dpi.

• Top end Sigma Wide Angle Lens

• Nodal Ninja pano heads

• Manfroto tripods

We have built good relationships with panoramic photography dealers and can therefore avail of discount on ALL our VR Equipment which we pass on to our photographers. If an individual photographer were to go out and buy what we use off the shelf the cost for equipment alone would be approaching 2,000 EUR

I hate long posts!
To those photographers who have expressed an interest and are keen to join the community of Virtual Visit VR Photographers I look forward to meeting with you early in the New Year. If you have any questions on the Project please contact me privately.

Many thanks.

Thomas McVea | Principal Photographer/Founder | Virtual Visit