I took my first pano shot a few weeks ago, 3 shot horizontal and just gotten around processing it.No and no. I did a 3 shot horizontal but a vertical pano for the stitching the other night with the 24mp D7100. You should allow an overlap of about 30% for the stacking software so this will be lost from each shot. I use Microsoft ICE and after cropping for the stitching the resulting file was (WxH) 5925 x 7588 and using the expert 90 export to disk setting the resulting file was 4.9mb if you change the export to 100 then the file size would be a bit larger but not massive. These were from jpegs after exporting after processing the RAW files. Each individual jpeg was around 12MB so there is obviously compression on the output at 90 on this program.
One more question. If I take 3 vertical shots and stitch them together, would I get better IQ then if if I just take one landscape oriented shot? If not, then what is the idea behind vertical pano?
Depends. Shooting with the three shots gets tree times the data so it should be better. That is assuming you cover the same area in the finished images in both.
I did a vertical Pano recently because I could not back up far enough to get the shot I wanted with the lenses I had with me.
Generally I shoot in portrait orientation when doing a horizontal pano so I have more room to lose top and bottom. I found that out the hard way early on when playing with panos.
Also I have found that if you can shoot it with one shot by using a wider lens then do. A lot easier and generally better.
I still want to try a 6 shot pano. three across and two high. I think that would be fun
Then I answered it anyway. I think that is the best way to shoot anyway.Thanks, but I think I made a mistake in asking my question.
Instead of saying "vertical pano" what I meant was, taking 3 shots in portrait orientation and then stitching them together for a landscape orientation final product.
Sorry.
Then I answered it anyway. I think that is the best way to shoot anyway.
The question is still a good one either way.
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Thank you. So it's better to take one shot with a wider lens, than multiple shots and stitching them.
Sometimes even a UWA lens is not wide enough. This is a composite of 6 shots, 3 vertically, 2 horizontally. The individual shots were taken in landscape orientation. The distortion is so huge that I had to leave the tower on the right leaning a bit. When I tried straightening it, it looked even more weird.
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Hmm ... so based on that, a telephoto lens probably works better for merging panos so that you have less barrel distortion than when using a UWA lens?
Are you able to apply and lens correction profile to the RAW image before the merge?
Hmm ... so based on that, a telephoto lens probably works better for merging panos so that you have less barrel distortion than when using a UWA lens?
I don't think so. The distortion in this image is not due to lens properties, but due to the fact that I'm trying to project a large portion of a sphere onto a plane. I think that I'd get a very similar effect even if I took hundreds of telephoto pictures and merged them. You cannot avoid it.