A surprising number of my clients buy my work because of these moving and blurred/compressed objects in my panos. This is one of the reasons I shoot with a Roundshot and/or Noblex on film.
Sorry to be late to this discussion.
I have been shooting panoramas for about 15 years and have tried a number of programs. The main problem I have encountered with many software packages was the inability to correctly handle tilted images. Most assume a level camera which seldom captures the view that I wanted. I use PTGUI which is a windows front for Pano Tools. Pano Tools was written by someone in Germany and is free for download, however is a series of dos routines. PTGUI and some others have written a windows app to control it and it makes life much easier. This does an excellent job and gives you control of the exposures you are blending. You get a report showing the control points along with miss-closures. You can add or subtract points and then reprocess. Trees and other moving objects cause the most problems in panos. This may be more control than you would like but I find it very helpful.
Gary Lobdell
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Thanks!
Did anyone ever use something like the Roundshot?
Just curious,
Klaus
On May 3, 2014, at 11:47 PM, karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is your personal opinion about the best option? That would be the question - is it PS?
I have been pondering this question for a while and I have come up
with some weird 'alternative' results,
Just wondering and thanks,
autostitch - www.autostitch.net
first go to edit>options and set the image size in pixels you want*
and if you're working with portrait images select rotate clockwise (so
it'll arange them horizontally then you can rotate the image back when
it's
finished) then set jpeg quality to 100.
then file>open (point it to the folder where the images are.. it's
generally smart enough to find the most useful images it can work
with) then hit start
the pano.jpg will appear in the directory when it's done.
*try setting a small size first to see how it performs
have a look at the examples on the autostitch site - for freeware it
does an amazing job.
a review with examples:
http://www.dansdata.com/quickshot031.htm
a comment "Autostitch. I've tried using panorama software before, but
was always disappointed. Despite using a tripod and a careful set up,
a lot of photo sets gave poor results. I suppose if I made a career
out of it I could have done better - I know a lot of people obtain
excellent results with existing programs, probably because they put
the time and effort into it. Also, most stitching programs only work
with one vertical or horizontal row. Now, alone comes a program whose
performance not only blows away all other programs, but is the easiest
to use program ever. Simply dump ALL your pictures in a folder, and
put Autostitch to work. It will find all connecting images, be they
rotated or whatever, and make a great looking panorama out of them
with NO manually intervention. It rarely gets confused, can stitch any
number of rows and columns, and can handle an enormous number of pictures. I've heard of it handling up to 60 images!"
from
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1018&message=12018470
I've recommended this before in PF and noted that
http://www.autopano.net/faq "Autopano Pro is a commercial version of
Autostitch using a licensed professional version of the SIFT algorithm
" -
Art Faul
The Artist Formerly Known as Prints ------ Camera Works - The Washington Post
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