Panoramic head for HDR?

[imanjp]

Hello guys,
This question might have been asked before, but I do appreciate it if someone would help me out.

I am willing to take spherical HDRI photo. It means after stitching all pictures you will have a spherical hdi picture, like a globe. This is useful for me to lit my scene in a 3d application. I have scoured out the web to find a device to achieve this as accurate as possible. I would like to rotate the bull head of camera in a specific degree.

Here is what I found:
1: Products
2: Panohead SV360 - Making of panoramas and 360 virtual tours is very easy.

or something like this:
3:

Sorry guys, I am not sure which one is the right one to be honest.
Thanks for your help.

 

[imanjp]

I found this which looks good:

Nodal Ninja 4 - Nodal Ninja 4 Series - Nodal Ninja

 

[jsecordphoto]

Panoneed, gigapan epic pro, nodal ninja will all work. There are other options too which only work with fisheye lenses, which most of the people I know doing spherical 360 panoramas are using anyway.

 

[480sparky]

You only really need a special head when parallax errors caused by parts of the scene being close start to show up as stitch errors in post. For most scenery shots, you really don't need any special gear. I've taken boatloads of panos handheld with no problems. When using a tripod, I use my old standy head, a Manfrotto 804RC2.

 

[imanjp]

Thank you guys.
After googling of the infos you gave me, I got good stuff.