Flash and stitch assist

[michelle]

I have an S-400 and I just noticed that you cannot use stitch assist with the flash. I guess all my shots were outdoors. Is there a way to have the flash work? How about the S-50? Is it different? Can you set the flash to work with stitch assist? Thanks

[cA70]

Just tried it on my A70, seems u can't turnt he flash on, probally for a good reason to, how would u make the two joins even?

There is a way u can do it though, there are aother panoramic makers out there where u put in images manually. Just u have to guess where to overlap when taking them. Will need extra software but can be done if ur really interested.

And i also found that you can't put it in macro mode either. Rather odd. In the manual there is a page which tells (cant rememeber the number) you what is enabled and disabled in evey mode.

[michelle]

Thanks...I wanted to take some pictures (in stitch assist mode) of a room. The walls are dark wood. So it does not show up without a flash! I will look into other software that will stitch my pictures together. Although the Canon stitich assist mode works so well piecing the pictures together.

[cA70]

Take a few test shots, not in pano mode, and se if u can use the software to manauly do it yourself. I know u can move the two pictures around to get it just right yourself.

[stduc]

The A70 allows flash in stitch assist mode providing you press the set button first. i.e. select stitch assist mode, press set, press the flash button. Maybe the 400 has something similar?
There is nothing in the software that comes with a Canon that stops you stitching ordinary images. You just don't get the special names, nor the special LCD screen effect. So, you could try shooting in some other mode.
Use a tripod if you can and don't use flash - you should get a good result.
Best of luck.

[michelle]

Thanks Stduc - that works with the 400...put to stitch assist, then press the Set key and select the flash...without pressing Set the flash cannot be set. Thanks again. I would have looked in my manual but I've misplaced it!

[cA70]

It does to, even macro works!

[stduc]

I re-read my manual last night and for the first time noticed it says to press the set button after taking the last picture in stitch mode. Does anyone know why? I have never bothered.

[cA70]

What is does is goes back to the start ready for a new one (i think), but ur probally do what i do and go to another mode.

[stduc]

ca70 wrote:
What is does is goes back to the start ready for a new one (i think), but ur probally do what i do and go to another mode.

Yep - that's what I always do. I just wondered (before I try it myself sometime) if it helped with the blue sky streak join problem?

[sleeping_tiger_62]

There is no need to set the camera to stitch assist mode to take photos which you want to stitch together in ZoomBrowser EX, etc. The stitch assist mode just give you an LCD display on the camera which helps you to position your next image relative to the previous one that you had just taken.

I mostly set my camera on a tripod, make sure the horizon (or any horizontal line reference) is level, and then blaze away swivelling the camera in steps as I take each subsequent image. All that is different when you are using any other mode than the stitch assist is that the image file number don't have a certain aphabet (I can't remember which anymore) suffix to it, thats all.

Once in ZoomBrowser EX, you can select all the images that you want to stitch together (you don't even have to have had them taken sequentially). You have the option to arrange them in the right order. If they don't stitch together properly, go to Merge/Display Seams, right click on the seam with the mismatched images, and you can manually overlay the 2 images to close to the correct position, and redo the stitch. It works well for me everytime.

Just a point of suggestion. If you are taking photos of a room, for example, try to position the camera right in the middle of the room. This way, there is less likely to be a mismatch of the size of any object which is on the right side of one photo with that which is on the left side of the next photo, etc.

Cheers