On a recent trip I was very restricted with the luggage I carried, so my photography equipment was limited to an iPhone 5 with two add-on lenses. I like to shoot spherical panoramas, normally using a canon SLR with full-frame fisheye lens and Manfrotto spherical pano head. I had some success with just the iPhone. However one technique is proving difficult, and I want advice from experienced Hugin users to solve this one.
My problem is stitching cylindrical panoramas shot using the iPhone 5's panorama shooting function. This generates cylindrical panoramas of up to 240 degrees, but usually with wavy horizons. >From hilltop positions, I shot 3 iPhone 5 panos which overlapped, intending to stitch them together in Hugin or PtGui into a single 360 degree cylindrical panorama. They are the first 3 in this album: http://s198.beta.photobucket.com/user/rich_the_stitch/library/Pano%20projects However I'm having unexpected difficulties generating control points for such images and aligning them. After manually creating control points, the optimiser doesn't want to bend any cylindrical image to join with the others (wavy horizon). Any suggestions about what to do? PTgui is even less suitable because of it's design to use one lens for all photos. All I can think of is to manually shear the photos in Photoshop to have a straight horizon. I tried had to keep the horizon straight, but I do not believe it is possible to reliably achieve the necessary quality hand-held. The other techniques I had success with were: - Shoot a series of images and stitch them using Autostitch/PTGui/Hugin into a cylindrical panorama - Shoot a partial cylindrical panorama with iPhone panorama mode. - Shoot a series of images with fisheye 180 degree lens attached, correct CA in Photochop CS6, stitch with PTGui - Shoot a pano live with the 360 app (no add-on lens) - Shoot a series of images with iPhone standard lens and make into a photosynth with Microsoft Photosynth web app. - Shoot 3D by shifting weight from left to right foot and combining images using Stereo Photo Maker software. Not bad for such a small range of equipment Thanks in advance, Richard -- -- 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 hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
