I have just stitched 14 x 36Mpix images shot with Samyang 14mm on nikon D800 and it stitches fast. but as we live far from each other and he's got an awful Web connection, I can't even ask him to send me some of HIS files, just to check personally. I've been using it for years and -although I never tried Autopano Pro- Rarely have problems stitching my sphericals !Īs you can imagine, I resurrected this thread just because someone told me some times ago that he HAITED PTGui and only used AP Pro. Don't even think about this shot with PTGui, it will not do it. Here's an example taken 60 feet away from a 240 foot high waterfall featuring 192 exposures, 8 over 8 times 3 handheld, assembled in about ten minutes by Autopano Pro which spat out three ginormous HDR layers later to be combined in Photomatix. Rather than mess with control points, which mostly don't work, it's better simply to reshoot with a reduced setting for wide angle. Autopano is the best I have used for stitching hands down, but it can fail if the panels are too unruly. There is usually wide angle lens distortion at the sides of each panel that can prevent the perfect stitch. However, doing research online, I also came across autopano though I haven't seen any reviews comparing them.Īny wide pano that has close in subject matter, you want to use a pano head where the nodal point is the pivot. I saw the same videos and was inspired to buy ptgui. Yeah I like MS ICE, works better than Hugin. ![]() Sorry I can't offer any info on Autopano giga, never tried it. There's also a nice tutorial series on youtube for doing 360x180 spherical panoramas I ended up getting PTGui after watching these, so it might give you a good idea if PTGui is what you're after. It's fully automated and works quite well, though I didn't get good results doing spherical panos, perhaps you'll have better luck. I hope you like the blog poasts and i’m looking forward to your questions and comments.I personally use PTGui, though I have not really used it enough to justify the cost yet (and my nodal ninja 3 is sitting mostly unused as well.).īefore you go buying commercial software, there are two free options you can try first:īefore I bought PTGui, I used Microsoft ICE to stitch a large number of cylindrical panoramas that I'd never managed to get looking right with the stitching software that came with my old Canon S20. A feature comparism to the regular Photomatix version is located here. Photomatix for Linux is offered for 20,– € at the moment. These tools will make image processing on Linux more interesting. With Aftershot Pro 3 there is a raw converter available for Linux and the next Gimp version should have 16- or even 32 bit support. I don’t know if the downloadable deb file could be installed on Debian 8, but chances are good. There are good news for HDR software tool Photomatix The manufacturer released a Linux version, mainly for the Ubunto and Linux Mint distributions. But such a pro mode is also provided by the standard camera app on Android 6. This mode gives you manual control over ISO,white balance and focus settings. For Android users there aren’t much news, mainly the camera function got an update by adding a Pro mode. ![]() ![]() On wednesday Adobe released Lightroom Mobile 2.1 for Android smartphones and version 2.4 for iOS smartphone and tablets. The manufacturer kolor must improve the stitching speed to be a rela competitor. But besides the good stitching quality Autopano Giga is pretty slow compared to the other tools like PTGui or Panorama Studio. By the way the masking is implmented not as a brush, you just have to mark the unwanted or a wanted object or person. This quality can be improved by manually setting additional control points or masking out unwanted details or persons. The stitching quality of Autopano is very good. There is a Pro version available, which costs 99,– €, but this version doesn’t provide a masking tool and you can’t use plugins. The price is 199,– € without VAT which makes the software even more expensive than PTGui Pro 10. Autopano Giga which can be downloaded as a trial version is available for Windiws,Mac and Linux. In this weeks article i took a look on Autopano giga in addition to my post about Panorama tools. Last week review 28-2016 and at least the weather looks a little bit more like summer □
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