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#1 2012-08-23 08:58:20

disneytoy
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Settings for seamless 360 degree Pano

HI!

I'm new to APG. In fact I did my first stitch. I was trying to achieve a seamless 360 degree Pano to try a Tiny Planet. Unfortunately, the ends did not meet up properly. I was told there is a setting to have APG make it a clean 360?  I had about 16 exposures with a lot of overlap.

The same set of images processed fine on Panomonkey.

I can see how powerful this program is. I'm just lost in some of the settings.

Thanks

Max

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#2 2012-08-23 10:40:03

disneytoy
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Re: Settings for seamless 360 degree Pano

I'm just trying to find the proper settings/workflow to get the result I need. ( I am using the Nikkor 10.5mm lens)

This is what I got out out of AGP: (problem, goes beyound 360 degrees, and horizon don't match)

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/742/testxgw.jpg

This is what I got from Panomonkey - seamless 360.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/panomonkey/13949/1010247_panorama_1345621450_stitched/watermarked.jpg?1345709771

What do I need to do settings-wise to get the same output as Panomonkey?

Thanks

Max

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#3 2012-08-23 11:42:07

gkaefer
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Re: Settings for seamless 360 degree Pano

you could upload reduced sized jpgs to the forum (16 images?) so we can play with them to find a better solution...
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#4 2012-08-23 13:29:04

marzipano
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Re: Settings for seamless 360 degree Pano

I've taken plenty of handheld 360 panos (albeit only 1 row usually) both portrait and landscape and never had any trouble with any of the APP versions getting the seam to wrap around even though photographing panoramas handheld does increase the amount of correction required for stitching problems generally

As far as the seam is concerned, I just make sure there are plenty of overlapping good quality control points linking the 1st and last exposure (i.e the overlap area for the seam).

In addition, just check the theta value on your final edit before rendering is +180/-180 as in the example below


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#5 2012-08-25 13:28:15

mediavets
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Re: Settings for seamless 360 degree Pano

disneytoy wrote:

I'm just trying to find the proper settings/workflow to get the result I need. ( I am using the Nikkor 10.5mm lens)Max

16 shots with a Nikkor 10.5mm fishsye?

That's far too many.

6-around plus zenith and optional nadir is sufficient usinga pano head and you should need many more even if handheld.

Does APP/APG correctly identify you camera and lens and set the lens type as fisheye?


Andrew Stephens
Nikon D40, Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye, Sigma 8mm f3.5 fisheye, Nikkor 18-55/50/35mm lenses, Nodal Ninja 5 Lite, Nodal Ninja 4 with R-D16, Agno's MrotatorTCS short.
Nikon P5100, CP5000, CP995, FC-E8, WC-E63,WC-E68, TC-E2, Kaidan Kiwi 995, Bophoto pano bracket, Agno's MrotatorA.
Merlin/Orion robotic pano head + Papywizard on Nokia 770/N800/N810 and Windows 8/XP/2K.

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