Hi Bruce
Not an expert, just using Hugin from time to time.

1) Give Hugin some hint about the focal length used for the images. I did start with 30mm, and a focal length multiplier of 1.5. Hugin will optimize this focal length for each image later.

2) Put "anchor for position" to one of the middle images from your panorama.

3) After automatic control point creation ("Feature Matching"), manually add some vertical and/or horizontal control points before beginning optimizations. This helps a lot with stitching of "sunsets at sea" and architecture images. This is easy with your pics, just follow the horizon with one horizontal alignment pair for some of the images.

4) During the *Optimize alignment" step, do each alignment step separately, beginning from top to bottom. After each alignment step, check the control points with the greatest deviations. If they are obviously wrong, delete them, and re-align. Leave them if they are correctly set, even when they have big alignment errors.

5) Do not over-align: Stop at "Positions and Translations". Check the preview from there.

Panorama for this 2009 sunset shot is stitching just fine after doing this steps. There is some waves which do not fit, and need manual intervention. This can be done with masking in Hugin before the stitching, or healing the finished panorama in darktable or Gimp.

Hugin 2018.0.0 displays some exif information from your images: The focus was 28-30mm, and a focal length factor of 1.5. You used a Dynax 7D with a 18-70mm zoom. I do not understand why others in this tread are not seeing this information.

Expert mode in Hugin requires an investment in learning, but at the end is much less frustrating than the sometimes non-perfect results from semi-automatic modes.

Sending you the Hugin project file in PM.

Urs

On 3/5/19 7:22 PM, Maurizio Paglia wrote:
Hi Bruce,
basically I agree with Patrick.
I tried the assembly with darktable and the great plugin pano-pro (that uses the same engine of Hugin).
I left all options to the default in order to see how the plugin works.
During the assembly the plugin showed some errors because it cannot find EXIF data!
The best result I obtained is here
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QtkCr4jXfNpxuu4ksn2Cr1sUtmribiBH

Ciao,
Maurizio

Il giorno mar 5 mar 2019 alle ore 17:45 Patrick Rudin <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:

    Bruce Williams <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
     > NEW link is here:

    These are tiff-files. From my experience, Hugin has big problems to
    stich things without metadata, even if you tell him manually the focal
    length. Have you tried it with high quality jpg with full metadata?

    And yes, me too would love to read a "hidden features, tipps and tricks
    of Hugin" from somebody who has a deeper inside into this software...


    regards

    Patrick
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