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I just shot a ton of these without issues. 

Most likely, your nodal point is very wrong.

As I do have this same experience when it is.

Errors on the nodal point will cause errors forming an accurately  stitched
sphere resulting. 

This becomes all too obvious when the subject matter is a grid, and mistakes
can't be swept under the rug via enblend/smartblend etc.

I don't see how image issues via this setup (noise reduction, vignetting,
exposure) would affect the control point generator, at least on the latest
versions.

 

Accurate calibration of the nn3 only takes a few minutes, but longer than
that to learn. 

Good luck!

 

 

Sacha Griffin

Southern Digital Solutions LLC

http://www.southern-digital.com

http://www.seeit360.net

404-551-4275

 

 

 

From: #removed# [mailto:#removed#] On
Behalf Of Andrew
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:46 PM
To: #removed#
Subject: [PanoToolsNG] Awful time stitching square suspended ceiling tiles
:-(

 

Hi,

Not had much fun with my latest project. Just took quite a few 360
shots within a University and many of the ceilings were made from
those square suspended ceiling tiles. I thought this would aid in the
stitching process but has had the opposite effect and is a total pain
in the rear.

D80, 10.5mm, NN3, wireless remote, 6 shots around and one up (where
there is the most overlap). After the first days shooting I stitched a
few in PTGui to check how it was going and noticed the alignment
issues with the tiles. Decided to take 3 shots up rotating 120 degrees
each so I would have more to play with in photoshop with the masks.
Really didn't seem to help that much. The past week I've been using
the lasso and clone tool in PS on at least 45 panoramas and don't ever
wish to do it again no matter how much I get paid.

I can't seem to think what I could have been doing wrong as the NN3
settings are straight forward and I was using a remote. I'm always
really careful while rotating the NN3.

In a hope that it wasn't poor photography skills which seems a little
odd anyway on such a large number of 360 shots I'm thinking of getting
either the 360Precision Absolute or 360Precision Adjuste and perhaps a
high end panohead will clear up the alignment issues in the future? Of
course the price jump is massive (plus Canada import tax) but if it
prevents me from all that photoshop work it's got to be worth it.

Any happy users of either 360Precision heads? Would love to hear from you.

Thanks,

Andrew

 



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