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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: BernardLanguillier on August 30, 2007, 05:14:51 am

Title: Stitching software
Post by: BernardLanguillier on August 30, 2007, 05:14:51 am

Dear all,

I have been a major fan of PTgui these past fews years and still like the program, but I found some cases where Autopano Pro 1.3 performed much better.

The panorama I refer to is mostly made up of moving clouds with a few distant mountains.

PTgui was unable to create any points automatically while Autopano Pro managed to produce a high quality stitch without any problem.

Regards,
Bernard

Title: Stitching software
Post by: bob mccarthy on August 30, 2007, 09:52:17 am

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Dear all,

I have been a major fan of PTgui these past fews years and still like the program, but I found some cases where Autopano Pro 1.3 performed much better.

The panorama I refer to is mostly made up of moving clouds with a few distant mountains.

PTgui was unable to create any points automatically while Autopano Pro managed to produce a high quality stitch without any problem.

Regards,
Bernard
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Bernard,

Have you tried CS3. Its a major improvement over CS2. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Autopano pro, but the quality of the stitch and lack of residual artifacts are very impressive.

Shooting with shift (PC) lenses.

Bob

Title: Stitching software
Post by: BernardLanguillier on August 30, 2007, 06:17:46 pm

Bob,

Not really, but the combination of PTgui for 90% of the cases and Autopano Pro for the remaining 10% seems pretty much perfect to me.

I tend to use what works until it stops to and then look for alternatives. I had one case when both PTgui and APP couldn't do the job and tried CS3 then. It was even worse than the 2 others.

Regards,
Bernard

Title: Stitching software
Post by: bob mccarthy on August 30, 2007, 08:27:10 pm

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Bob,

Not really, but the combination of PTgui for 90% of the cases and Autopano Pro for the remaining 10% seems pretty much perfect to me.

I tend to use what works until it stops to and then look for alternatives. I had one case when both PTgui and APP couldn't do the job and tried CS3 then. It was even worse than the 2 others.

Regards,
Bernard
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My stitching is really simple,
I only use PC lenses. As you may remember I use the Nikon 35 PC.

I only pan L/R with the B55 w/pano base.

All vertical is rise/fall with the PC lens.

All the stitches I do are sharp, no artifacts, and amazing coherent.

All the pano programs work well, but CS3 seems to have the least flaws. I understand it discards in the overlaping pixels rather that averaging the data which is what I believe autopano did.

Your more versed in this than I, I'm just pleased with the result.

bob

Title: Stitching software
Post by: Ray on August 30, 2007, 09:45:37 pm

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Dear all,

I have been a major fan of PTgui these past fews years and still like the program, but I found some cases where Autopano Pro 1.3 performed much better.

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Bernard,
Didn't I tell you so!  

For automatic stitching I find Autopano Pro unsurpassed. Better than CS3's Photomerge as well.