Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 May 2012, at 02:06, Michael Mol wrote: ... And the final stitch is here: http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2030/brum3068brum30702.jpg All Firefox gives me is a black window : can you check ? Works on my system. It comes up all-black in geeqie, though; I had to load it in

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 21 May 2012, at 02:06, Michael Mol wrote: ... And the final stitch is here: http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2030/brum3068brum30702.jpg All Firefox gives me is a black window : can you check ? Works on

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I'm seriously wondering if there might not be something broken with the .jpeg files I'm spitting out. That laptop (saffron) is in the middle of an overdue emerge --update --deep --newuse @world, though. (And I saw

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seriously wondering if there might not be something broken with the .jpeg files I'm spitting out. That laptop (saffron) is in the middle of an overdue emerge --update --deep --newuse @world, though. (And I saw it was

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seriously wondering if there might not be something broken with the .jpeg files I'm spitting out. That laptop (saffron) is in the

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
120519 Michael Mol wrote: According to Wikipedia, the Zeiss Ikon is 35mm SLR, but that's about all you're going to get from it. No ! -- as Stroller pointed out, zoom lenses were invented only c 1950. My stepfather's model was made in Germany c 1939 had been mentioned to him as a good buy by a

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
120520 Stroller wrote: Zoom lenses were much less common even 2 or 3 decades ago. For a long time, a 50mm prime was the common kit lens, rather than the 18-105mm zoom which is sold today. This was because on a camera using 35mm film, a 50mm focal length gives a field of view very close to

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19 May 2012, at 20:28, Michael Mol wrote: … Worse, if the photographer was not using a prime lens[1], and was instead using a lens with variable zoom, you can't easily know what the real focal length was, as

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
120520 Michael Mol wrote: as Philip later remarked, it turns out the lens was likely a 75mm prime The picture of the camera looks exactly what I remember, tho' there might have been different models with different lenses. It was a very good camera for its time. The leftmost portion will never

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120520 Michael Mol wrote: as Philip later remarked, it turns out the lens was likely a 75mm prime The picture of the camera looks exactly what I remember, tho' there might have been different models with different

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120518 Michael Mol wrote: Remarkably simple. Probably because I was only stitching two photos. -- details snipped -- Thanks : that gives me a 3rd method to pursue. NB in your result there are some badly curved lines

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 May 2012, at 20:28, Michael Mol wrote: … Worse, if the photographer was not using a prime lens[1], and was instead using a lens with variable zoom, you can't easily know what the real focal length was, as this will change depending on how far the photographer has zoomed in.

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120516 Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I tried Hugin, but got nowhere.  I set  6  points on each picture, which are  2  overlapping parts of a single original

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
120518 Michael Mol wrote: Remarkably simple. Probably because I was only stitching two photos. -- details snipped -- Thanks : that gives me a 3rd method to pursue. NB in your result there are some badly curved lines : bottom right, the front of the tram is badly distorted ; centre top, the

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 17, 2012 1:07 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 17 May 2012, at 05:34, Philip Webb wrote: ... Please do (smile) send me the result off-list with the steps you followed to get there. I have been really enjoying following this thread. I felt sure from

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
120517 Pandu Poluan wrote: On May 17, 2012 1:07 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 17 May 2012, at 05:34, Philip Webb wrote: Please do (smile) send me the result off-list with the steps you followed to get there. I have been really enjoying following this thread. I felt

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-16 Thread Urs Schutz
On Wed, 16 May 2012 00:12:25 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120515 Philip Webb wrote: 120515 Urs Schutz wrote: I just tried with fotoxx. This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. I've installed Fotoxx it does a very good job ! The joint is

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-16 Thread Philip Webb
120516 Urs Schutz wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2012 00:12:25 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I can't find out how to turn it into a rectangle. Transform - Unbend Image Play with the vertical values, this is very easy, fast and intuitive. With brum-3.jpg the best combination was:

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I tried Hugin, but got nowhere.  I set  6  points on each picture, which are  2  overlapping parts of a single original negative, but all it offered was a black screen; I did follow the on-line help. Hugin can be tricky,

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-16 Thread Philip Webb
120516 Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I tried Hugin, but got nowhere.  I set  6  points on each picture, which are  2  overlapping parts of a single original negative, but all it offered was a black screen; I did follow the on-line

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 17 May 2012, at 05:34, Philip Webb wrote: ... Please do (smile) send me the result off-list with the steps you followed to get there. I have been really enjoying following this thread. I felt sure from previous reading on Hugin that it was the correct approach, but when I tried it my

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-15 Thread Urs Schutz
On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:50:33 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I tried Hugin, but got nowhere. I set 6 points on each picture, which are 2 overlapping parts of a single original negative, but all it offered was a black screen; I did follow the on-line help. Then I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
120515 Urs Schutz wrote: I just tried with fotoxx. I hadn't heard of that one : there are so many pkgs in media/gfx that it's difficult to be sure I've checked all photo editors. This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. It c~b any more manual than Imagemagick (smile).

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
120515 Philip Webb wrote: 120515 Urs Schutz wrote: I just tried with fotoxx. This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. I've installed Fotoxx it does a very good job ! The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg. There's no sign of it on my version :

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
I tried Hugin, but got nowhere. I set 6 points on each picture, which are 2 overlapping parts of a single original negative, but all it offered was a black screen; I did follow the on-line help. Then I tried Imagemagick got a good result after a bit of fussing. The commands I used were

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-12 Thread Philip Webb
120511 Dale wrote: The biggest things about hugin, 1) learning to use the thing 2) patience. The more control points you get, the better it will turn out. Whatever you do, don't leave a control point that is not matched up. Talk about a weird picture. It only takes one too. I was careful

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-12 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120511 Dale wrote: The biggest things about hugin, 1)  learning to use the thing 2) patience.  The more control points you get, the better it will turn out. Whatever you do, don't leave a control point that is not matched

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
120510 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-11 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 120510 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. Now I want to reassemble them into

[gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. There are several apps which might

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. There

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. There are