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Old June 30th 06, 12:09 PM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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Default "Virtual" wide angle via stitching seems to have less distortion

I was playing with a 3x3 stitched image today and for fun did a
comparison with a standard single shot:

http://satin.sensation.net.au/rowan/widecompare.jpg

I found it interesting that although the stitched image has a
noticeably wider FOV, there's a lot less perspective distortion.

Unfortunately, it's a lot of work (and CPU time) to stitch 9 images
into one!

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Old June 30th 06, 12:37 PM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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rowan194 wrote:
I was playing with a 3x3 stitched image today and for fun did a
comparison with a standard single shot:

http://satin.sensation.net.au/rowan/widecompare.jpg

I found it interesting that although the stitched image has a
noticeably wider FOV, there's a lot less perspective distortion.

Unfortunately, it's a lot of work (and CPU time) to stitch 9 images
into one!


Since the software has to do a little stretching when it does the
stitching, I suggest that it is correcting some of the distortion, just as
you might have done to the single image.

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Joseph Meehan

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Old June 30th 06, 12:59 PM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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rowan194 ) a écrit
dans oups.com :

I was playing with a 3x3 stitched image today and for fun did a
comparison with a standard single shot:

http://satin.sensation.net.au/rowan/widecompare.jpg

I found it interesting that although the stitched image has a
noticeably wider FOV, there's a lot less perspective distortion.

Unfortunately, it's a lot of work (and CPU time) to stitch 9 images
into one!



yes.
however, some software (even freeware) exit to correct te lens distortion.
like this one : http://www.photo-freeware.net/ptlens.php

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Old June 30th 06, 01:45 PM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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"rowan194" wrote in message
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I was playing with a 3x3 stitched image today and for fun did a
comparison with a standard single shot:

http://satin.sensation.net.au/rowan/widecompare.jpg

I found it interesting that although the stitched image has a
noticeably wider FOV, there's a lot less perspective distortion.

Unfortunately, it's a lot of work (and CPU time) to stitch 9 images
into one!


I have done some good 7 shot wides and one 13 that was far more than one
lens could do.


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Old June 30th 06, 01:47 PM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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Alf92 wrote:

yes.
however, some software (even freeware) exit to correct te lens distortion.
like this one : http://www.photo-freeware.net/ptlens.php


More good stuff here, including a list of software
at the bottom of the page:

http://www.panotools.info/mediawiki/...rrection_model

BugBear
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Old July 1st 06, 12:45 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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rowan194 wrote:
I was playing with a 3x3 stitched image today and for fun did a
comparison with a standard single shot:

http://satin.sensation.net.au/rowan/widecompare.jpg

I found it interesting that although the stitched image has a
noticeably wider FOV, there's a lot less perspective distortion.

Unfortunately, it's a lot of work (and CPU time) to stitch 9 images
into one!


as you would expect shooting at a more standadard focal length for the
stiched shot.

to avoid prbelms with distortion when making long panoramas I generally
get best result around the 40mm equivilant. When I do this the stitches
are often seemless.

kosh
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Old July 1st 06, 01:33 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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kosh wrote:
rowan194 wrote:

I was playing with a 3x3 stitched image today and for fun did a
comparison with a standard single shot:

http://satin.sensation.net.au/rowan/widecompare.jpg

I found it interesting that although the stitched image has a
noticeably wider FOV, there's a lot less perspective distortion.

Unfortunately, it's a lot of work (and CPU time) to stitch 9 images
into one!


as you would expect shooting at a more standadard focal length for the
stiched shot.

to avoid prbelms with distortion when making long panoramas I generally
get best result around the 40mm equivilant. When I do this the stitches
are often seemless.

kosh


yes, most books on the matter suggest using normalish (50mm) focal
lengths. They also suggest turning the camera into 'portrait' mode to
get more vertical coverage and take more frames to cover the horizontal.

Nige
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Old July 1st 06, 01:39 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:33:59 +1000, Nige wrote:

yes, most books on the matter suggest using normalish (50mm) focal
lengths. They also suggest turning the camera into 'portrait' mode to
get more vertical coverage and take more frames to cover the horizontal.


The reason you do that is you have the best stitch results if the middle of
your picture lines up with the horizon. And in the portrait orientation
you'll get more of the scene below the horizon.

Don www.donwiss.com/pictures/ (e-mail link at page bottoms).
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Old July 1st 06, 02:34 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:45:33 GMT, kosh wrote:
to avoid prbelms with distortion when making long panoramas I generally
get best result around the 40mm equivilant. When I do this the stitches
are often seemless.


For those of us stuck in the Point&Shoot world, this is easy advice to
follow. My latest attempt at stitching, 3 frames with an FZ5 (widest
focal length 36mm):

http://ri22.uchicago.edu/~dmsilev/tibetan_concert.jpg

It stitched pretty well, except for a few inconsiderate people in the
foreground who moved around a bit between frames.

-dms
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Old July 1st 06, 03:00 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,aus.photo
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Default "Virtual" wide angle via stitching seems to have less distortion

Stitching is great fun...but the reason it doesn't distort is 1) software
correction and 2) you are not using an extreme wide angle....so you start
with less distortion.

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"rowan194" wrote in message
oups.com...
I was playing with a 3x3 stitched image today and for fun did a
comparison with a standard single shot:

http://satin.sensation.net.au/rowan/widecompare.jpg

I found it interesting that although the stitched image has a
noticeably wider FOV, there's a lot less perspective distortion.

Unfortunately, it's a lot of work (and CPU time) to stitch 9 images
into one!


I have done some good 7 shot wides and one 13 that was far more than one
lens could do.



 




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