Digital BW, The Print

I can recommend any of the gui front ends for panorama tools. I've been 
using panorama tools for over 6 years now for stitching anything from 
full spherical 360 panoramas to partial panoramas with longer lenses to 
get higher resolution for signboards. PTmac for Mac users, PTAssembler 
and PTGui on Windows, and Hugin on Linux. Don't forget Enblend (Windows) 
and XBlend (Mac and Linux I think) for procesing final remapped images 
and getting rid of any colour differences in the overlap sections. There 
is also a program called autopano which makes a decent effort at 
automatically aligning the images and generating a project file for 
loading into the GUI programs above.

There's a list PanoTools@yahoogroups.com

also there is the beginnings of a very good site attempting to collect 
the wealth of knowledge available for stiching panoramas panotools.info

Good luck

Glenn

Steve Kale wrote:

> 
> Alan Huntley recommends REALVIZ "Stitcher":
> 
> http://www.realviz.com/products/st/
> 
> 
> 
>>From: Mark Savoia <mark@...>
>>Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:25:59 -0500
>>To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Digital BW] RE:Digital camera 10Dvs4x5
>>
>>
>>
>>Great work Carl. I vote for the digital. Did you stitch with Photoshop
>>automation?
>>Mark
>>
>>On Dec 10, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Carl Schofield wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Just to follow up on my previous post about stitching, I took some
>>> comparison shots yesterday at a local waterfall with a 4x5 and a Canon
>>> 10D.  Here is a side by side comparison of a stitched composite image
>>> (18 frames (landscape orientation) in a 3 column by 6 row matrix) made
>>> with the Canon 10D and 135mm f/2 L lens and a scanned (Epson 3200 set
>>> to produce a 16x2016 bit grayscale at 360 ppi) image from a Polaroid
>>> type 55 4x5 negative, shot with a Tachihara 4x5 field camera and
>>> Fujinon A 240mm f/9 lens.  Exposure for the 4x5 was 2 seconds at f/32
>>> (EI 25) and for the 10D images 1/6 sec f/16 (EI 100).  The comparison
>>> images are side by side screen grabs in Photoshop at 8, 25, 50 and
>>>100%
>>> of image size.  The 4x5 image is 83.6 MB and the stitched 10D image is
>>> 80.1 MB and both are 16 bit gray. The 25% image is approximately the
>>> appearance when the images are printed at 16x20 inches.  The stitched
>>> 10D image compares quite favorably to the 4x5, although the stitching
>>> is very tedious and time consuming.  You would need a 40 MP digital
>>> camera to get single shot images comparable to the size and quality of
>>> either the 4x5 or stitched 10D images.
>>>
>>>http://homepage.mac.com/scho/forweb/index.htm
>>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as they are often being updated.
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
> 
> If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same page.
> 
> Please follow these basic guidelines:
> - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short.
> - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames. Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the membership without notice.
> - Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from the membership.
> - By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and Moderators. See \ufffdGroup Topic, Rules and Guidelines\ufffd in the Files section:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/
> 
> BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE \ufffdOWNER\ufffd AND \ufffdMODERATORS\ufffd OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE  \ufffdOWNER\ufffd AND \ufffdMODERATORS\ufffd OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP.
>  
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
>