PanoTools:
RE: Almost my first D70/Sigma 8mm panoramas
Peter Sale 2005-Mar-06 17:05:56
Many thanks for the tip Sacha. I will stop "staring" at PanoCube while its
working.
Peter
--
Sacha replied:
Quoting Peter Sale <#removed#>:
Don't stare at panocube when it's working. It gets nervous.
Meaning, windows explorer, will try to generate thumbnails, of the newly
created faces, and you'll get file open errors from ptstitcher when it trys
to use them. So leave the directory after dropping.
It would be good if panocube used temorary directories.. AND more precise
temporary file names with exact deletions.. It's blown out a project a few
times, named 1.tif 2.tif etc..
Sacha
>
> Ops, I meant www.petersale.com/temp_stuff/LR_USM3_SH3_5000W.mov
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Peter Sale wrote:
>
>
> My Sigma 8mm arrived and I just now finished my first "presentable"
> panorama, in two sizes - small 500k and large 1.2MB. These can be
> viewed by clicking on
> www.petersale.com/temp_stuff/LR_USM3_SH3_3000W.mov and
www.petersale.com/LR_USM3_SH3_5000W.mov , respectively.
>
> Nikon D70/Sigma 8mm/SB-800 speedlight/F8 - 4 Raw shots (no nadir or
> zenith)/Ptgui/Panocube Plus 5.1/Photoshop CS (PSCS) to process the raw
> images
>
> I attempted to correct for Chromatic Aberration R/C and B/Y and
> Vignetting while importing my D70 raw images into Photoshop CS. I
> then saved these four slightly corrected images as tif files. Next I
> processed these four tif files in PTGui and output a full size
> equirectangular tiff file. Then, again via PSCS, I adjusted
> Shadow/Highlights, resized this Equirectangular file as desired,
> applied a bit of sharpening and saved different versions and sizes of
> equirectangular tif files for eventual conversion to Cubic MOV files
> via PanoCube Plus v5.1. For some reason, I found that I often had to
> drag the same equirectangular file onto PanoCube Plus v5.1 more than
> once in order to create a cubic file. It seemed that PanoCube kept
quitting prior to completely creating the desired cubic.
>
> Yes, I know I'm not supposed to use a flash but I wanted to capture
> the extended dynamic range of both the "dark" interior of my living
> room and the "bright" exterior view through the windows without
> attempting to merge multiple exposures. Put differently, I did not
> want to deal with more than four images.
>
> Please do critique and advise how I might do better in creating these
> QuickTime panoramas. I would like my next cubics to be better than
> this "first" one.
>
> Regards/Peter Sale
> Santa Monica, California USA
> www.petersale.com
>
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PanoTools/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
#removed#
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/