Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/05
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why don't you have a go with Hugin?
It's open-source, so costs nowt to try :-)
It can be downloaded from http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
It supports tiff files and runs under windows, mac osx and Linux.
All the best
Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK
Homepage http://www.monomagic.co.uk
Blog http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
Picture a week (2010) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
Picture a week (2009) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
(2008)
http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
On 05/02/2012 04:42, Richard Man wrote:
> Paul, it's hard to tell from a web pic of course, but your use of the RF645
> and Tech Pan is masterfully!!
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> As for Gigapan, in case you didn't know, it's a robotic unit so you
> (should) calibrate for the horizon and nodal point. The effect is a bit
> like swing lens panoramic, I think. So straight line not on horizon is
> curve, but that's true with handheld stitching too. (As you can see, my
> bias is till the single frame pano ala XPan)
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> With the Gigapan, I am trading off portability and time spent on field with
> repeatability and hopefully less time post processing. I figure that I can
> easily carry a tripod, the Gigapan in a bag (~4 lbs) and my Leica with a
> single 50mm lens and still hop up and down a trail if I want. Throw in a
> couple other Leica lens and I would be set for most situation.
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> The other thing I don't like about the Giga Stitch software so far is that
> it only accepts JPG. I'm going to try stitching with just Photoshop on the
> RAW/TIFF file and see how it does...
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