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Postby phillipb on Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:55 pm

Just found this link at dpreview, apparently it's very good. I've downloaded the program but I don't have any photos to test it.
It's free and a very small download. Interesting part is that it can do a multi level stitch ie. not just one row of pictures.
http://www.autostitch.net/
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Postby phillipb on Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:24 pm

Wow!! This program is absolutely brilliant, I took 5 shots in vertical mode which span across the room about 180 deg. Hand held without much thought at all to exposure or focus distance or anything and in a few seconds I got a perfect panorama. It's amazing.
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Postby xerubus on Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:49 pm

care to share a result? i'm a panorama factory fan... but i'm always open to suggestion :)
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Postby ajo43 on Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:49 pm

can you post it?
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Postby phillipb on Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:59 pm

here it is, I've left it uncropped so that you can see where the joints are.
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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:02 pm

You might find this article helpful of determing the nodal point:

http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~bernardk/tutorials/360/photo/nodal.html

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Postby phillipb on Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:07 pm

Thanks Chris
That will come in handy when I do some serious panoramas, but as I said in this test I didn't even use a tripod.

When I said perfect in the earlier post, I may have exhagerated a bit, but looking at the joints with the exeption of the far corner of the room, they're pretty good joints.
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Postby Killakoala on Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:54 pm

It looks pretty good for a freebie :) Some further PP will be required though, but Pano Factory is like that too.
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Postby birddog114 on Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:03 pm

phillipB,
It's a nice pics and works, the link is helped a lot, but my thoughts, with that room the 12-24 perhaps will cover all.
The real outdoor pano is another challenge with stiching and using the right gears (tripod + panhead) + software.
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Postby Onyx on Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:29 pm

More on nodal points, plus D70 and kit lens specifics:

http://www.duckware.com/nikond70/index.html

(The above site was my introduction to panorama photography, it's very comprehensive and can be a little technical).
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Postby birddog114 on Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:43 pm

Onyx,
That's the link I read for many times in the past and I always told people always shoot in portrait mode for panorama stiching easier after. Then there's once again, people need invest money in some equipments like I have from RRS if they want a perfect panorama stiching, and equipments/ gears are very important, they save your time after. People still can use what they're using but then never happy with what they took and spend more times on PP or getting perfect stiching.
That site covers all, heavily in techniques but it's very good as my thoughts
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Postby MHD on Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:23 pm

For Linux users: It works well under WINE!

One problem so far... I can not see how to change JPEG compression... the one (very initial) test I made was heavily compressed
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Postby phillipb on Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:28 pm

Yes, that was the main corcern from the guys at Dpreview, the author of the program joined the thread and said that this demo version will expire at the end of the year but by then they will have a new version with variable compression.
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