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« on: May 15, 2009, 11:34:07 AM » |
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What do people here use to stitch panoramas? I use Microsoft ICEIt's pretty good - and free  Attached is an image at 40% of its original size produced by MS ICE |
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!V- PS+ PE++ Y++ PGP t- 5- X++ R* tv b DI++ G e++ h- r% y+
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2009, 11:46:10 AM » |
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AutoCAD...  ... erm...  ... -stitch ...  ... that's it... Autostitch... also free version... available from many download centres. But I'll have a look at your link there Ed... as I'm sure you're aware, stitches don't always work or come out as you'd expect so it's always good to have a few options to try. My back-up choice is Canon's Photostitch which is shipped on the CD with every new Canon camera. |
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« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2009, 11:49:44 AM » |
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Yeah, I know stitching can sometimes be... less than satisfactory in its results. It's a real shame when one takes a load of photos with the intention of stitching them and what results is complete rubbish. Especially when it's a Vista you have little chance of ever seeing again. I don't know whether you replied before I added my stitch, but have a look and see what you think |
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2009, 11:52:13 AM » |
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I've never done a panarama.
I'm going to have to try it out, and see what I can do.
I know if I buy the Olympus memory card for my camera, it has a panarama option. Its something I keep meaning to buy, but something always gets in the way
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« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2009, 11:54:03 AM » |
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Well I have never had a "proper" camera, I just use the one built into my 'phone. My last phone had stitching built into it, but it was pretty difficult to work with, sadly. Nowadays I have a hefty machine so I just dedicate it a few cores and leave it to work |
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2009, 12:05:08 PM » |
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I've never done a panorama.
I'm going to have to try it out, and see what I can do.
I know if I buy the Olympus memory card for my camera, it has a panorama option. Its something I keep meaning to buy, but something always gets in the way
Panorama's... a quick guide.Set camera to MANUAL  ... this is because otherwise the camera will expose differently for each frame making it lighter/darker as you pan... not good.  Don't use a wide lens... the distortion is too much for the software to handle... ideally about 50mm (30mm on a 1.6 factor lens). Get your exposure right by testing through light & dark areas of the pan you intend to turn through to get a good average... might not be ideal for the whole pan but it will eliminate exposure changes through the pan which cause vertical lines in the final product. Pan around as level as possible (tripod is good) taking photo's with a 30% overlap as quick as reasonable so clouds haven't shifted, light hasn't changed, etc. Download files off camera & load up into your software of choice. |
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2009, 12:16:50 PM » |
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Hey, thanks for that Hedge, I'm going to have to visit somewhere to try that out....
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« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2009, 08:30:32 AM » |
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Just wondered if anyone had tried Hugin? http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ I've heard/read good things about this software, but as I've yet to take a suitable set of photos, I dont know how good it is |
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« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2009, 05:44:30 PM » |
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oooh.... I have just stitched my first Pano together I'll stick a couple up on the site later, but I'm pleased with the results. |
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« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2009, 07:09:20 PM » |
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this one was the first one I created using Microsoft ICE.... not a bad program at all.
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2009, 08:33:08 AM » |
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That's pretty decent... in all of it I can only spot one join (& I really had to search for that)... good consistent exposure across the shot. I'm gonna have to have a look at that software.
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2009, 09:43:24 AM » |
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Thanks Hedge, That one was from 5 photos, so find one join is great. The other one I posted up was from about 10 (I think) and it doesnt look too bad. I just wish it would show bigger as its a lovely skyline. |
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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2009, 11:20:04 PM » |
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I use a program called Imerge to stitch together images of the moon to make a whole moon image, if you scan the moon using a webcam you get about 300 images, which when stitched together give you a high res full moon image. There are a lot of astronomical image processing programs out there that do some really neat things- eg a program called registax, that can stack thousands of AVI frames using several registration points and do image sharpening etc all as part of the software.
with astronomical images you stack thousands of frames to average out the noise and pick up the faint detail.
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« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2009, 07:45:46 PM » |
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300 image stitch WOW, that sounds complex, tho I'd be interested to see one, could you post an image in the forum please?
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« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2009, 09:37:02 PM » |
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ok this one is reproduced at about half the finished resolution, and was formed from 23 avi's at 1 frame per second- 20 seconds per clip 320x240 pixel resolution avi's.
I chose this one because it shows what happens when you miss taking an avi of one section.
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