mediavets wrote:

Welcome  to the forum.

I guess you've seen the tutorial on manual stitching?:
http://www.autopano.net/wiki-en/action/ … _panoramas

If you like you could put your image set on-line somewhere (preferably as a ZIP file) and I'd be happy to download and have a go at stitching it.

I suspect that you may not have the camera/lens set quite correctly on your pano head and hence have parallax errors  - BTW what pano head are you using?

For this test shot, I didn't use a dedicated pano head.  I simply used a Manfrotto 055 tripod with a 488RC2 ballhead.  The ballhead has a pan-lock feature, which I used for this pano.  Our school has a project where we are designing a custom, programmable pano head, but since we're still working on the code I decided to try some test shots to test out Autopano with.

Here is a link to the original files used in the pano:
http://rapidshare.com/files/358625921/H … t_Pano.zip

Thanks for the help!

mediavets wrote:

jhugigapixel wrote:

For this test shot, I didn't use a dedicated pano head.  I simply used a Manfrotto 055 tripod with a 488RC2 ballhead.  The ballhead has a pan-lock feature, which I used for this pano.

There's the answer then....you have unresolvable parallax errors because you are not rotating the camera around the No Parallax Point.

Could you elaborate on this?  How do you ensure that the camera is rotating around the no parallax point?

jhugigapixel wrote:

mediavets wrote:

jhugigapixel wrote:

For this test shot, I didn't use a dedicated pano head.  I simply used a Manfrotto 055 tripod with a 488RC2 ballhead.  The ballhead has a pan-lock feature, which I used for this pano.

There's the answer then....you have unresolvable parallax errors because you are not rotating the camera around the No Parallax Point.

Could you elaborate on this?  How do you ensure that the camera is rotating around the no parallax point?

If you have a panohead, see this http://www.autopano.net/wiki-en/action/ … a_panohead
if you don't, see http://www.autopano.net/wiki-en/action/ … a_panohead

If you don't rotate around the NPP, you will have parallax.  You may be able to stitch the front row of tables in your image without a glitch, but that will throw off the back row.

jhugigapixel wrote:

Would we have to make any changes to this mount in order to eliminate parallax?  We can move the camera forward/backward to align the center of the lens with the point of rotation, and also raise/lower the camera in the mount to line up the center of the lens with the vertical point of rotation.

Those are all the forms of adjustment you need to be able to do to set the camera/lens at the NPP.

But the 'centre of the lens' is not likely to be the fore-aft NPP.

The chain drive is novel.

Did you consider also providing an alternative way to mounting the camera in portrait orientation?

Maybe you could write some plug-ins to control this mount using Papywizard?

Last edited by mediavets (2010-03-06 00:56:04)

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