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Re: How much difference does a pano head make for indoor (room) or outdoor panos?
Erik Krause 2008-Sep-07 18:55:00
On Sunday, September 07, 2008 at 18:15, chris wrote:
> I recently attended a HDRI presentation at SIGGRAPH and the importance of
> an accurate center of rotation seemed to be pretty highly emphasized. I'm
> wondering how much ppl can get away with low cost stitching tools (e.g.
> panorama tools, ptgui, hugin) and a normal camera/video tripod (with
> appropriately accurate angular rotation and appropriate overlap).
> thanks,
This depends on your subject. If you don't have near foreground and
far away background in the images overlap you don't have a parallax
problem.
BTW: The parallax problem is independent from the stitching software
since even the most expensive software can't invent background that
is hidden behind foreground details but needed in the particular
overlap.
For details, especially how to calculate the parallax error you can
expect from a certain setup, see: http://wiki.panotools.org/Parallax
For a list of both commercial and self made pano heads see:
http://wiki.panotools.org/Heads
best regards
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de