Hello,

first sorry for my bad english :-D I am from germany and just bought me Easypano Studio 2007.

And, i have much problems ;-)

Here my Equipment:

Canon D40
Sigma 8mm F4 DG Fisheye
Manfrotto Tripod
Nodal Ninja 3

First question: is the lens ok to take 360x360 panos? I have often problems while stitching the pano in panoweaver and must take the points to fit myself. Than, i want to make HDR panos for rooms, but the HDR function in panoweaver is too bad. So want to make them with outsite software. But i think i really dont know the right way to do this.

I search myself much here in Forum but dont find the right thinks. I thank you for all help i can get

Best regards

Gimei

Answer 1 - yes

D40 and Sigma 8mm 

Answer 2 - First, must find the 'no parallax location' on the lens. 

Take 4 images at 90 degrees

Please use technical words and not subjective personal opinions "too bad".  Please post a panorama on your website so we can see your work.  That way we can help you.

D40 is a Nikon DSLR - 40D is a Canon DSLR.

Panoweaver makes multiple final panorama images for fusing in 3 party software.

When you have set the camera/lens to the NPP you should not have to manually add control points. (or Rarely, only when no features are clearly visible or exposed correctly).

It is most important when requesting help that you provide a link/URL to files for inspection and consideration.

Regards, Smooth

Hi Smooth,

the main and big problem is that Easypano save my 3 Panos in 8 Bit, not 16 Bit. So the work around with third party software is less in quality.

To check some of my trys, please take a look here:

http://www.gimei.de/index.php?link=5

Gimei

Gimei,

It is a valid point about 8 bit vs 16 bit and I'm pretty sure you can save images in 16 bit format from Panoweaver. Though it is not possible to "publish" a panorama to viewer in 16 bit. Even Quicktime converts to .jpg 8 bit before displaying. So what you should be doing is saving each panorama "image" then blending or fusing before publishing the final image. The only thing that Panoweaver does not support is Alpha channel (and needs too) and this will most likely happen in a feature upgrade.

Work flows can be very personal and labour intensive. They are so many ways to get to a final displayed image using a multitude of software products. It's a matter of finding what works for you. Some people share their work flows to a point but hold back sometimes vital steps of their process. I suppose this is fair enough as if everyone did things the same then nothing would separate one panorama photographer over another apart form composition.

I assume that after looking at your panoramas you really want IDR so that you can correct the blown out windows? What you must be careful of with fusing/tone mapping is that it can become cartoonish and fake looking. The colour red takes on a very unnatural fluro orange tint. The trick with IDR/Tone mapping is the produce an image that doesn't in anyway look like what people call HDR.

Sometimes I think people use this technology just for the sake of it, without having any real idea as to why.

Regards, Smooth