A technique for creating images that offer a wide view of a scene, where the image width is usually significantly wider than the image's height. Panorama images can be created by cropping or, more commonly, by "stitching" several images together to create the larger image.
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How much to zoom while shooting a single row panorama image?
Matt Grum mentions in a comment on an answer related to locking parameters when shooting a panorama that it is beneficial to zoom out on the middle section of the image while shooting a single row ...
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Is there free software to automatically search for photographs that can be stitched together to form a panorama?
I'm looking for a free solution to automatically detect photographs that can be stitched together. A paid-for solution already exists - naturally, I wonder if there is any open-source or freeware ...
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What is the added value of a panorama head?
As an amateur I've done several panoramas of landscapes and city views. I've mostly done it hand-held with a DSLR, with exposure lock and at the wide end of my zoom-lens.
I do the stitching in ...
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Create custom Google Streetview panorama?
I have a 360° panoramic photo, 18432×9216 px in size, stitched with ICE. I have uploaded the panorama to Photosynth, so that it can be viewed and navigated conveniently. However, Photosynth requires ...
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Does Microsoft ICE correct barrel distortion?
For a panorama, I created more than a hundred images with my Panasonic Lunix DMC FZ5, with 6mm focal length (35mm equivalent: 36mm). I want to import these images into ICE, to create a panorama.
The ...
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Stitch first and edit later or vice versa?
I have a set of three images imported in Lightroom 3.6 which I want to stitch into one panorama using Photoshop's CS5.5 Merge to Panorama tool. As I see it I have two options in doing so.
Doing all ...
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What method can I use to create an indoor panorama?
I want to create a stitched indoor panorama of a medium sized greenhouse (which is about 10x20m in size).
I have created many, many landscape and cityscape panoramas before using a long lens (say ...
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Where can I get a frame for a 4x18" panoramic print?
I know a specialist framing shop can make custom frame sizes but are there any places that make this frame size as a pre-set item, for a panorama?
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Are there any 'panoramic' digital cameras?
I found a picture of this camera, a Horizon S3 U-500, (I've personally never seen anything like it before) and did some research. It turns out its a specially designed camera to take wide (but not ...
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How to shoot with the Brenizer method with an active, moving background, i.e. on the streets
If the background is moving, like a street full of people and you're shooting a stationary subject with the Brenizer method, how does that work? When you stitch up the surrounding area wouldn't it be ...
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How can I align two panoramic images?
I have two panoramas, which are already stitched. They were taken four years apart, of the same town from the same location. I want to align them and show them side by side, so that the viewer can ...
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How can I achieve something similar to “Google Business Photos”
I was introduced to Google Business Photos by a company a few weeks ago, and when I saw what it could do I was VERY impressed.
See: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/help/maps/businessphotos/
The 360 ...
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Digital strip camera options?
My ultimate goal is to set up some sort of digital strip camera rig for taking stereoscopic 360° panoramas.
I'd like to use a strip camera because it allows for fast panorama capture and ...
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Software for gigapixel photo stitching
What are some software packages (Mac, Windows, or Linux) that make it simple to stitch thousands of photos together into a gigapixel image?
For my purposes, it does not necessarily have to have the ...
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What is a vertorama and is it really different from a panorama?
Is "vertorama" a real photography term, or is it simply something that people use to describe a vertical panorama? I never thought that panorama was limited to horizontal landscape oriented images, ...
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Where can I find photos taken by a calibrated camera to make a 360° panorama? [closed]
I am trying to write up an automatic 360° panorama stitching program for my final project, in order to do so, I need to accomplish four steps:
Find the horizontal and vertical field of view for a ...
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Tripod Head for GigaPan Epic Pro
I get massively confused when it comes to tripod heads screw sizes blah de blah, so excuse the possible simplicity of this question. I have a GigaPan Epic Pro and a Manfrotto 475B Pro Geared Tripod. I ...
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How to stitch automatically panoramas of images that lack well defined elements, sharp edges?
I often take large landscape panoramas of 100+ 21MPixel images. Quite often some of the images do not contain sharp, well defined elements that can be detected by automatic control point detectors. ...
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Hugin image/layer order
I made some huge panorama but to complete the background i used some 'low-res' pictures from a much wider lens.
Everything is well connected, but the image order is not the order from the "Images" ...
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Gigapixel panorama problems
I took hundreds of pictures from a 75mm-300mm lens in Cristo Rei(Lisbon), but since Hugin (panorama tools GUI) canoot distinguish well water from... water(neither i) i took the river pictures with a ...
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How do I stitch two star trails photos taken by different cameras?
Last night I took some star trails photos. I set the shutter speed to 30", put the camera in burst mode and used my remote shutter release (with shutter button lock) to hold down the shutter button. I ...
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Why would I want to use a tilt shift lens for panoramic photography?
I read that some people use tilt shift lenses for panoramic photography, and being that I currently have access to the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens I wanted to give it a try. Do I just ...
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How to publish super-mega/gigapixel panoramas?
Flickr, Picasa Web, SmugMug, Zenfolio are all the wrong places to publish massive things like this. They have awful limits. I haven't been able to find a gigapixel host that is like Flickr/Picasa ...
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how to use Canon 16-35 with hugin?
I'm trying to create 360 degree panoram with hugin +Canon 5d iii +canon 16-35 at 16mm f/5.
I took 72 images of my surroundings and am trying to combine those in hugin. I've tried various lens types ...
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Cheap panoramic setup
I'm looking for a cheap panoramic 360x180 (approx. don't mind the "feet" as long as it's close) setup with decent resolution. I weighed my options and thought up the following:
cellphone with ...
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Looking for a true 360 degree camera
I'm looking for a true 360 degree camera, so that's both vertical and horizontal 360 degrees. I've seen some clip-ons for the iPhone, but am really not wanting to by an iPhone 4S for this.
What I ...
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Is it possible to create an inside-out panorama?
I was thinking about this, but have yet to try it.
A normal panorama sweeps to capture a wide angle, what I want to achieve is the opposite:
by moving the camera around a subject and stitching the ...
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What would be the right approach to take pictures of a long counter?
I am trying to take a picture of a long counter in a super market. It is about 15 yards long. I inched along (at about a distance of 3 yards) and took straight on 30-35 pictures with my 16-35mm at ...
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Is there a way to correct exposure on photos in a panorama taken without AE lock on?
I made a stupid mistake on some of my pano's I shot this past weekend, I forgot to hold AE-lock. Now I've got about three photos that I can't use due to difference in exposure on them.
Is there a ...
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Preserve manually selected detail when stiching panorama in Photoshop
I have a set of photos that I would like to stitch together into a panorama in Photoshop. One of the photos contains a fast moving subject (birds) that I would like to preserve. How can I force ...
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Will Nodal point change if I change zoom on camera?
when I find Nodal point on my camera, and I zoom in, is it necessary to rearrange camera?
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Which parameters to lock between images for a panorama?
I gather that common wisdom says that in addition to camera position you should keep as many variables as possible the same between different shots for a panorama. Variables that spring to mind are ...
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Using PhotoMerge to simulate a wider angle lens
I'm starting to experiment with PhotoMerge to simulate a wider angle lens than I have available.
Right now I know I need to use manual exposure and to provide sufficient overlap between the images. ...
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How can I make PhotoMerge work with very dark sections?
Recently, I've been experimenting with stitching together images using Photoshop CS4's PhotoMerge feature. It has always work well except for my most recent attempt. This one was at night (which is ...
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Where can I find a cheap wide angle/panorama camera?
I will be going on a mountaineering trip next month and want to take wide angle/panorama pictures.
Years ago, a big chain store in the US (Target) made such disposable camera. The catch was that the ...
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What photo editor for Mac offers image filters with live previews, HDR composition and photo stitching?
I am looking for a photo editor that offers to...
...choose filters by comparing live previews, not via contextual menus
...create panoramas by photo stitching
...create HDR images
I would be nice ...
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Lens for Rebel XTi to capture panoramic images?
I would like to create panoramic images of smaller spaces, such as office cubicles. Can one suggest how I might best capture this using a Rebel XTi? The option to replace the camera entirely is open ...
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Equalize exposure levels of a set of images in a stitched panorama
I've taken a set of pictures for a panorama. Unfortunately, I've forgotten to set the flash to manual exposure, hence I ended up with uneven exposure levels in the images.
When I stitch them ...
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How can I get better results photographing dry erase boards?
As far as photography goes, I'm less than an amateur. I have a camera my friend (the head of the photography dept. at a local college) recommended to me that I really want to learn to use, but ...
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Choosing Nikkor Lens For Panoramic Photography?
I want to buy a wide or fisheye lens for taking panoramic (360°) photos. My camera is the Nikon D7000 . I am a little bit confused about FX and DX lenses; could you guide me to select the correct ...
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What is a good 360 degree camera?
I want to buy a new camera for a 360 degree shoot , so can anyone suggest me the good one
I have seen that Sony Bloggie camera which has 3D camera and a 360 degree lens too, so does this camera have ...
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What is the proper exif tag to mark a lens as a fisheye?
I'm shooting panoramas with a manual 8mm fisheye lens on my Canon 60D DSLR (APS-C, 1.6x crop factor).
Since the camera cannot talk to the lens, the exif data in the pictures is all wrong. I know how ...
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What software do I need to create a panorama inside a cylinder to publish on the web?
Googling I found on the net reference to sphere panoramas, but I'm not interested in looking up or down, just to the front. My image is a just rectangular, a very wide panorama and I wanted to create ...
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What is the correct way of shooting a panoramic shot?
I just bought a tripod and I'm starting to learn photography. I own a Canon T2i (kit lens) and I'm interesting in taking panoramic shots.
What are the pro tips for doing this?
I'm trying to set my ...
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I need some free panorama stitching software [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which tools are good for creating panoramas/stitching multiple photos?
I have iPad and a Mac. The software could be for either, but I really need it to be free or very ...
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How to shoot a Nadir image for a spherical panorama with a rectilinear lens?
Trying to shoot a complete spherical panorama, I found that no software was able to stitch correctly the nadir images I had. PTGui Pro 9.1 and Autopano Giga came close but no cigar as they say. I ...
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Where could I get a tripod for panoramas on iPhone?
I'm interested in taking great panoramic views.
Photosynth on the iPhone looks pretty cool, but I'd like great looking images so I'm in need of a tripod.
I've seen this one ...
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Why is Photoshop not merging my panorama?
It's not something i am planning on doing often but I wanted to try to do a panorama and use Photoshop's "Merge to Panorama" feature to stitch the images. Previously I have only done this manually.
I ...
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What's a good place to share panoramas online? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Online viewer for panorama photos?
I've got some Photomerged panoramas, about 5-12MB each. Where's a good place to put them online?
Preferably I'd like a place where ...
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How can I stitch a panorama correctly if I moved the camera along the horizontal axis?
Here in Argentina, we have a very fancy street called "Lanin". All the houses and walls on that street have some kind of mosaic stuck to it, and it's very cool. It was made by a local artist who lives ...
