Hi Laurent,
Welcome to OPF and thanks for the immediate feedback on this Pano. Do you use APP or it comes short. The latest version has some powerful new features. The anti-ghosting is pretty impressive. It's great to have another panoramist here who is PTGUI savvy. I'm interested to know what computer you run on, how it's set up and how many files do you deal with to get your 7 complete sets of images! How long does it take and how many images are there per set?
Thanks again,
Asher
Hello Asher,
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Thanks for the welcome. I don't consider myself a panographer yet, but working towards it.
Not sure what APP is ( Auto Pano Pro?) No i don't use it. I really should try it, but when 1 application is doing the job without bug, i tend to stick with it, and not even upgrade. I've been using PTmac and PTgui. To produce an equirectangular bracketed and blended for 360 output, at present, if we are in a high contrast situation such as the first example, i only shoot every 90 degree, no nadir, no zenith, and about 7 to 9 bracketed shots of 1ev each. But you don't have to always bracket,
far from it There are 2 example, 1st one 4 single shots, 2nd 4x7 bracketed. (pls forgive the mess... was 40miles wind at -10!).
Please bear in mind i shoot mainly for real estate, and don't have much time for "proper" high definition panoramas. I was using a D300 for 360's with a NodalNinja3 and Sigma 8mm/f3.5, but i'm expecting a NodalNinja5 i'll use with my D700 and a Nikon 16mm/f2.8 fisheye. I'll then be shooting 6 around at 60 degree angle, still tilted, and for better quality panos, will take a zenith shot.t
I run on an iMac intel 2.16ghz and 3gb Ram. Workflow is shoot raw in NEF, batch process in Capture NX2 to tiff, assemble in PTgui (via enfuse, not HDR) then cleanup-denoise-sharpen in PS, build in pano2vr for quick flash i then output via some php builder, par of a website designed specifically for building VirtualTours via interactive floorlplan. I have 2 versions, one building self-contained static
web-pages and one built within a heavily customised wordpress
real estate CMS (we're now switching to ExpressioinEngine-CI). But I also use FlashPanoramaPlayer and looking at KRpano for more complex virtual tours. Still not quiet happy with speed rendering and actual floorplan navigation within the panos. Virtual Tours is what i'm mostly interested in, and this includes showing still images, and soon video and sound. Hence why i've been quiet slow with the actual panorama part. That's a job on its own, with very specific skills.