After sticking to an old Hugin version for years ("if it ain't broken,
don't fix it"), I finally created a project which made the old cpfind crash
(500 images gigapixel), so I reminded myself that new is not necessarily
bad, took the plunge and upgraded to Hugin 2015.0.0.
Wow what a change! And not just for the better. I used to be a Hugin power
user. Now I feel like an amateur again. There are some frustrating nags.
Here are the most important ones:
1. Hiding the Optimizer and Exposure windows is confusing. I want
everything! I am using the Expert interface and still Hugin hides things
from me.
Why are automatic optimizations moved to the Photos tab while custom
optimizations remain on the Optimizer tab? Confusing. I also miss the
connection between exactly what parameters are marked when selecting a
predefined optimization. I want to see what is what. I often select one of
the predefined optimizations as a quick way of mass-ticking parameters as a
basis and then elaborating on them manually before actually optimizing
"custom parameters". Thankfully this still works but doing it in separate
tabs is tedious and confusing.
2. Thanks to #1, it took me a while before I found how to change / delete a
lens. Why are there no buttons? "Every" function should exist as a button,
not just in the right-click menu.
3. Underlining & bolding the parameters selected for optimization makes
them hard to distinguish. Please go back to checkboxes, which makes it
possible using Tab and Space to mark the boxes. Ctrl-clicking is tedious.
4. Resetting ALL exposure correction (incl EV) should be more obvious. I
mix images created in Enfuse with straight-from-camera images with images
that have been manipulated with ancient tools and a tool I've developed
myself (PicStack) that do not retain any EXIF data. I know what I'm doing
and adjust every image by hand before touching Hugin. I never want Hugin to
know anything about exposure. I had a hard time figuring out how to get rid
of the EV values for EXIF-containing images. Why are these not reset by
"Reset lens parameters" and I have to instead "Reset user defined..."?
Any hopes of getting these nags rectified?
Best regards
John Eklund, Sweden
Some of my work:
http://www.elmuseum.se/panorama/
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