I want to start with Panorama photography. Mainly for landscape photography.
I would appreciate some comments on my plans.
I work with a Cannon 5D and the following lenses:
Canon 28-135 3,5 – 5,8
Canon 70-300 4,5 – 5,6 DO
Canon 70-200 2,8 IS + 1.4 an 2 extender
Sigma 17-35 2,8 – 4
Tamron 90 2,8 macro DI
Tripod, Baldhead and spirit level.
I only work in RAW, convert in ARC and use PS-CS2 as editor.
Windows XP SP2. AMD 64 2x dual core 3800+ with 2Gb RAM and plenty GB off HD storage.
I plan to purchase a Nodalninja or Pano head 2 as Panoramic head. Any experiences?
I want to use realviz Stitcher pro as stitcher software. I think that PT stitcher is not user-friendly for someone who starts.
A year ago there was a discussion on these pages on this topic with the result that ArcSoft was the preferred one. What is the status of available, user-friendly, software to day that takes PSD or TIF files preferably in 16 bit?
I read the pages on
http://www.panoguide.com/howto to get some first education.
Is there another source or book available?
Thanks for your input.
Henk