Hi Team, This is my first PESO for a while, more to come if you care, commendations or critisims welcomed of course.
Like Dave Savage and a few others I've been shooting a good number of multi-image panos over the last few years, it can be quite rewarding. However I've found that determining whether your pre-compiled image really deserves post processing time and attention requires some automation. For this purpose I use AutoPano Pro, I let it loose on my newly downloaded thumbnail images to detect and automatically compile pano images, it matches up image sets quite successfully but it often also finds unintended panoramas, sometimes good but most often not. The following image is one that Autopano "found" and assembled and that I thought deserved a little closer attention, it's a composite of four images from two pano sets, one for the sky and the other everything else. The images were captured using a K10D and the source files were 2MP JPGs generated in camera, there are errors in the stitching but really it's amazing that it stitched so well. The subject is Osborne House and gardens on Isle of Wight http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/Pano-IMGK01592.jpg (~650kB) Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC +10 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.