Programs for panoramic stitching

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What programs are recommended for stitching panoramas please:bang:
 
Microsoft ICE is quite good and Free :)
 
realspeed said:
Adobe elements 10 or 11 do auto stitching
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And they do it very well. Photomerge Panorama in PS Elements 10 and 11 does a very nice job, in my experience they leave no detectable seams.
 
Preeb said:
And they do it very well. Photomerge Panorama in PS Elements 10 and 11 does a very nice job, in my experience they leave no detectable seams.
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My big mistake when doing pano shots is not keeping the same light input as I do a "Sweep" ,always forget to put the "lock" on the camera to stop light differential.
 
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Sorry for the silly question but what do you mean by locking the camera? Do you not go into manual exposure and balance it for each shot?
 
He means locking off the settings and keeping the settings the same for the whole series of shots.
 
Thanks Neil. i know to use manual focus and a fixed WB, say daylight. Also manual exposure but do you not balance the exposure for each photo ay altering the shutter speed. I know aperture has to stay the same.:bang:
 
Hi Merv,

Get an average of the settings with a few test shots of the different areas (depending how wide the panorama is), when you have this just set to manual and leave the settings for each shot that you do.
 
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merv said:
Thanks Neil. i know to use manual focus and a fixed WB, say daylight. Also manual exposure but do you not balance the exposure for each photo ay altering the shutter speed. I know aperture has to stay the same.:bang:
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NO.. In manual, adjust either shutter speed or aperture will change the exposure.

With a set for panoramic, you want a singe exposure value for the whole set.
 
Pookeyhead said:
NO.. In manual, adjust either shutter speed or aperture will change the exposure.

With a set for panoramic, you want a singe exposure value for the whole set.
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Too true, ideally everything needs to be set to manual :

ISO
White balance
Focus

and anything else I may have forgotten.
Then apply one setting across the whole set (as already said), the trick is to establish the correct settings in the first place (test exposures as mentioned).
Because you can get wide variations in exposure some folk go for HDR techniques to give them wider latitude.
 
look up "focus selector lock" is what I was referring to.

Realspeed
 
Thanks guys that's clear. I set to manual focus and use hyper focal distancing then don't touch focus again.
 
Fixed white balance, fixed manual exposure as well.
 
Yep, everything in manual and fixed.

As for the original question PTGUI is probably the best and the one favoured by a lot of the pro's in this field. Not overly expensive either (i.e. not CS6 silly money).

Failing that Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor).
 
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