Monday, June 16, 2008

Working with the latest Free Panorama Stitcher: Hugin

You can download this version and read my comments at this thread:
http://groups.google.com.my/group/hugin-ptx/browse_thread/thread/6d939026ba0c56ad/56adde14fa394f64?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=hugin+3061#56adde14fa394f64

One additional technique that I used, is the Philipod, a piece of
string attached to weights, instead of a tripod.

It worked well, but it was very tiring. The errors for distant objects
such as this beach is virtually negligible that autopano-sift was able
to join all the pictures together except pictures of the sky and the
ground. The ground where I took the pictures from, I just take it by
extending my hand, without the Philipod. This area is very minimal
because the Philipod is just a piece of string so I can take pictures
as close to the string as possible.

The sky and ground, I try to take at yaw and roll of zero degree, and
pitch of +90 and -90, and enter these values into hugin for its
preview. Don't optimize these two points as they are not well
calibrated. They are useful as fillers only.

The result is the missing tripod from my panoramic pictures.

enfuse software allows the adjustment of exposures as shown by this
KYC pano picture. Just make sure that you have lots of hard disk space
for the swap/temporary files,i.e.more than 12 Gbytes.