FFP2 and 360Precision: How many pictures around?

[tvslaven]

Hi. I wanted to ask this forum for some advice. I use a 350D and 10/22mm canon-lens. How many steps would you recommend? 8 or 36 images?

What kind of lens was used on the demo from FFP2? You know the _f, _r and so on? I hoped the time of manually stiching together pictures where over!

Do I need to buy an 180 degree fisheye-lens to get this 6 picture ease of use?

Hope some of you moore experienced users may help me with some pointers

I hope i dont need any other stiching software than the FFP...

[cheathamlane]

Hi there:

FPP simply displays your panoramas -- it doesn't stitch them.

If you're using a 360Precision head, it should come with the appropriate indexing plate for your camera & lens combination.

That said, for the 10mm on your camera, you'll probably end up taking 9-12 shots to get a good resolution image.

A good place for pano-shooting and stitching info is the PanoTools group over at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PanoToolsNG/ where there are literally hundreds of shooters with an opinion.

Cheers,

[izoneguy]

I just got started with the 360 Precision head. I use a Nikon D200 and the Nikkor 10.5 fisheye. I take 6 photos for the 360 and then one up and one down. I use PTI Gui to do the stitching. it produces very good results.

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

Originally Posted by izoneguy

I use PTI Gui to do the stitching. it produces very good results.

PTGui should be the one-stop stitching software of choice. I have only recently started to use it (weeks), after having been locked into the understanding that Realviz Stitcher was the best, and I was very pleased with the quality and ease of use... along with the smartblend plugin it delivers quality one can simply not get with realviz. Some of the panos I have been assembling have needed zero manual work. Only load the images, check alignment and render it to a pano. Only when working with skies that are clear blue or greyish, without any reckognizable control points, is there a need for manual job, but still lightyears ahead of Realviz.... and several times cheaper... which doesn't matter much in the end, since the biggest saving comes in less manual work and better quality stitching.

Sincere thanks to Hans Nyberg for recommending PTGui to me a few months back.

[lc8b105]

autopano pro (www.autopano.net) is another good choice too.

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

But autopano does not support spherical panos (3 rows). They only mention one or two rows on their site.... or maybe I missed out that info?

[tvslaven]

Thanks for good answers, but I still havnt found out how the demo that FPP2 shows was created? Did they manually stitch together a panorama with PTGui og PTmac, and then cropped out six individually pictures for the demo?

I really need to get my head around this thing you see :-)

Because I want to end up with the same results as the demo with a smaller preview I can activate to fullscreen. This looked supernice and is exactly what I am looking for.

Hope someone can demystify this for me :idea:

[doubledrop]

Same as izoneguy i use 10.5mm requiring just 8 shots to render out the full cubic needed for FPP. Although i use Stitcher, which gives excellent results automatically, an eg here: screenstar360.com

[lc8b105]

Originally Posted by Tuddi

But autopano does not support spherical panos (3 rows). They only mention one or two rows on their site.... or maybe I missed out that info?

No problem with spherical panos,what ever how many rows.

[izoneguy]

Originally Posted by tvslaven

Thanks for good answers, but I still havnt found out how the demo that FPP2 shows was created? Did they manually stitch together a panorama with PTGui og PTmac, and then cropped out six individually pictures for the demo?

I really need to get my head around this thing you see :-)

Because I want to end up with the same results as the demo with a smaller preview I can activate to fullscreen. This looked supernice and is exactly what I am looking for.

Hope someone can demystify this for me :idea:

A good Pano Head and stitiching software are essential.

http://www.360precision.com/360/inde...MainMenuOpen=2

Look at this compability list from 360Precision.
Looks like your combo will work with the listed head.

You can download sample files to play with using PTgui

Then get http://www.ptgui.com/

Use the files and preset from 360precision.com
to get a feel for how the software works.

You must master the creation of a pano before going to
FPP2.