This one is recognized by google as a panorama, so google enables its panorama viewer. This one can be zoomed - it could have been exported up to Yes there can be issues - sometimes it is necessary to insert extra control points or even horizontal-line control points.Īpart from that I am quite happy with PTGUI that I have used for many years. I have had PTGUI assemble 9 images deep TIFF hdrs in a panorama of a dozen or so images without any problem. and shutter speed - if they don't becaus ethe camera was on auto - then you need to just edit your hdr series - then they are recognized properly. there is a trick to HDR - PTGUI only recognizes series of hdr images by them having identical Fno. The main thing I like is the 'save and forget' batch stitcher. The newest version supports the graphical processor. I have just stitched 14 x 36Mpix images shot with Samyang 14mm on nikon D800 and it stitches fast. but as we live far from each other and he's got an awful Web connection, I can't even ask him to send me some of HIS files, just to check personally. I've been using it for years and -although I never tried Autopano Pro- Rarely have problems stitching my sphericals !Īs you can imagine, I resurrected this thread just because someone told me some times ago that he HAITED PTGui and only used AP Pro. Don't even think about this shot with PTGui, it will not do it. Here's an example taken 60 feet away from a 240 foot high waterfall featuring 192 exposures, 8 over 8 times 3 handheld, assembled in about ten minutes by Autopano Pro which spat out three ginormous HDR layers later to be combined in Photomatix. Rather than mess with control points, which mostly don't work, it's better simply to reshoot with a reduced setting for wide angle. Autopano is the best I have used for stitching hands down, but it can fail if the panels are too unruly. There is usually wide angle lens distortion at the sides of each panel that can prevent the perfect stitch. However, doing research online, I also came across autopano though I haven't seen any reviews comparing them.Īny wide pano that has close in subject matter, you want to use a pano head where the nodal point is the pivot. I saw the same videos and was inspired to buy ptgui. Yeah I like MS ICE, works better than Hugin. Sorry I can't offer any info on Autopano giga, never tried it. There's also a nice tutorial series on youtube for doing 360x180 spherical panoramas I ended up getting PTGui after watching these, so it might give you a good idea if PTGui is what you're after. It's fully automated and works quite well, though I didn't get good results doing spherical panos, perhaps you'll have better luck. I personally use PTGui, though I have not really used it enough to justify the cost yet (and my nodal ninja 3 is sitting mostly unused as well.).īefore you go buying commercial software, there are two free options you can try first:īefore I bought PTGui, I used Microsoft ICE to stitch a large number of cylindrical panoramas that I'd never managed to get looking right with the stitching software that came with my old Canon S20.

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