Panorama Software - Panoweaver 5.00 Panorama Photography
Panoweaver 5.00 can stitch following types of fisheye images:
- Full Circular Fisheye Image: It has a 180° angle of view in all directions.
- Drum Fisheye Image:If you attach DSLR with Focal length multiplier>1 to Sigma 8mm f4 EX fisheye lens, the two margins in the final fisheye images will be cut. We call it drum fisheye image derived from its shape.
- Full Frame Fisheye Image: It has a 180° angle of view only on the diagonal line.
- Cube Face Image: It's converted from spherical panorama. There are six cubic images including: back, front, left, right, top and bottom to be stitched as a panorama.
- Wide Angle Zoom Lens Image : Its horizontal field of view should reach 75 °at least.
Fisheye Type |
Qt. of Images |
Way of Shooting |
Full Circular |
1 (horizontal), 1 (vertical) (single image generates 180° panorama) 2 (horizontal), 2 (vertical) 3 (horizontal) Raynox |
as you like |
Drum |
4, 4+T, 4+B, 4+T+B |
4 pictures in portrait |
Full Frame |
6, 6+T, 6+B, 6+T+B |
6 pictures in portrait |
4, 4+T, 4+B, 4+T+B |
4 pictures in landscape |
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Cube Face |
6 |
converted from spherical panorama |
Wide-angle zoom lens |
6 |
6 pictures in portrait |
Note: T refers to Top fisheye image which can be obtained through rotating camera up. B refers to Bottom fisheye image which can be obtained through rotating down. |
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Recommendation: 4+T of drum fisheye image.
Firstly, you need to use the right equipment. View compatible equipment list.
Secondly, please shoot 4 fisheye image in portrait mode as each image covers 120x180 degrees. Since Panoweaver also accepts 4+top/bottom, you can also shoot up/ down to get the top/bottom fisheye images.
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Shoot full frame fisheye image:
Firstly, you need to use the right equipment. View compatible equipment list.
Secondly, please shoot 6 fisheye image in portrait mode OR 4 fisheye image in landscape mode. Since Panoweaver also accepts 4+top/bottom, you can also shoot up/ down to get the top/bottom fisheye images.
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Shoot full circular fisheye image:
At first , you need to use the right equipment. View compatible equipment list .
Secondly, please shoot 2 or 3 fisheye images.
Top/Bottom fisheye image:
Please shoot Top/Bottom fisheye image on the last rotation.
For 4 fisheye, please rotate pano head up and down to shoot at the 4th position.
For 6 fisheye,please shoot up and down at the 6th position.
You should stay with the last rotation. Shooting in some other position will cause an incorrect stitching.
Firstly, you need to use the right equipment. View compatible equipment list.
Secondly, please shoot 6 wide angle images in portrait mode. The horizontal field of view should at least reach 75 degrees.
