I'd like to add my thoughts here on why I liked Hugin, but decided to use PTgui.
I've just started with Panorama software, and am looking to integrate Panos and VR tours into my photography business. I'm a great advocate of Open source software, and was pleased to find Hugin, and it's associated programs. I've also a long track recored in computing before moving to photography as a career, so I was happy to tackle the challenges of getting Hugin to work However, after a number of trials, and some success with Hugin, I bought PTgui. I could get good (perhaps not perfect) results quickly with PTgui that I couldn't do with Hugin. And my criteria for choosing the software was getting my knowledge up and the ability to get a product to market as soon as possible - so the use of commercial software and consequent timesaving was, for me, the correct decision. These days I do most of my work on a Mac, having migrated from windows. I had some difficulty in installing and getting everything to work on this platform. It wasn't practical for me to use my Windows desktop to stitch panos but travel with a Macbook when taking the images. I guess the final thing was actually gathering up to date information on both program installation and operation - a common problem with open source. However, I still gather lots of useful information from this community, and perhaps will revisit Hugin as a tool when I can easily install and configure on my Macbook. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
