This differs from my brief experience. I let Hugin make the decisions and I was pleased with the results.
I have done some reading and I see that the pros use a special head on a tripod to rotate the camera about the 'nodal point" of the lens. This makes near and far objects stay in the right place between rotations (eliminates parallax). I am in the process of building such a gadget. We will see how that goes. I notice that Hugin has many features, e.g., lens distortion correction, depth of focus enhancement from multiple images, and multiple row stitching. I have explored none of these. -Denis On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]>wrote: > I spent the last few days trying to use Hugin and Gimp to create a panorama > from 4 photos. > > Hugin: I installed Hugin (v 2010.0.0.5045) from the Debian testing > repositories. I found Hugin very complex and not very intuitive. I am sure > it is very powerful given all the options. I could not get the assistant to > create merge points automatically, even after installing a different > plugin. > The tips at the end of this article > https://panospace.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/the-quest-is-over/ were the > most > helpful. I tried using autopano-complete and autopano-c-sift from the > command line to create the points (lots of output, no errors), which seemed > to work. However, the resulting panorama was worthless. I also tried > manually entering the points, but never got a panorama out of it. > > Gimp: I tried the panorama plugin, which worked. I then pulled out my Gimp > book (Beginning Gimp by Akkana Peck, Apres 2006) and followed her manual > process for creating the panorama, and it worked very well. The only > problem > is that I have a vertical shadow where the images are joined together. Sent > an email to the Gimp users list to see how to remove it. I am a gimp > novice. > > IMO, Gimps' manual method was the easiest to create a panorama from a > couple > of images. YMMV. If I had to do this for a living, then i would spend the > time to learn Hugin and make it work. However, after several google > searches > and reading different articles, I gave up as it was taking too much time. > > Mark > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Denis Heidtmann > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > What photo stitching software do people recommend? Pandora plug-in for > > GIMP, > > Hugin, enblend, and photoxx are listed in Synaptic. Anybody have > > experience > > with any of these? I have a few pix I took as panoramas, and I would > like > > to put them together. I have done this before using sw that came with my > > camera (Canon), but that only works in Windows, and I would like to avoid > > that if I can. > > > > Thanks, > > -Denis > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
