Hi Greg, in my opinion "better" is relative. If you want more quality and zoom possibility then the most narrow angle the lens has, more close to these objectives you will be. If you want an easy stitch, using less images will make you achieve the final result in less time, then the more open angle the lens has, the better it is. It doesn't matter if the lens is a fish eye or a rectilinear, as hugin treats the distortions to make the job. You just need to configure the lens correctly: if you use a fish eye and doesn't set the lens as one, then you will have problems.
Going back to your specific example, I don't think 9mm will have a much narrow angle than an 8mm lens. Do you have their fov to compare? Probably you will use the same number of images to stitch and will have almost the same final image size. Cheers, Carlos E G Carvalho (Cartola) http://cartola.org/360 http://www.panoforum.com.br/ 2012/11/27 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> > I do a lot of 360x180 panoramas with an Olympus 9-18 mm rectilinear > lens (equivalent to 18 mm full frame). I've been offered an 8 mm > fisheye. Which is better for this kind of panorama? > > Greg > -- > Sent from my desktop computer. > Finger [email protected] for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports > problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua > -- 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
