Taking Panoramas

[jlocatell]

Hi

I have a Powershot S230. My idea is go a step ahead of stitching and take panorama pictures.

Ideas?

How could I use the stitch assistant in order to help me? Canon PhotoStitch software has a feature, but I wonder if someone has used it.

regards

[tgnych]

I did, with my A70 and it gives great results.
I just enlarged a four-pics panorama to 12"*6" - desert mountain scene (blue sky, core mountains and off-road track) - and it is just beautiful.
Only from very close can you distinguish the overlapping area but it is very lightly visible.
I am now going to use this more and more.
Photostich is easy to use and the manual mode gives choices.

[sunnysdesk]

Photostitch is definitely awesome. Here are some of my panoramas:

http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sunil/pictures/europe2003/panorama.htm

If you look closely on the freeway in the first pictures, you will see the same truck colliding with itself. So the lesson learnt is dont include moving objects while taking panoramas. But then again, you wouldnt have noticed if I didnt tell you.

Sunil.

jlocatell wrote:
Hi

I have a Powershot S230. My idea is go a step ahead of stitching and take panorama pictures.

Ideas?

How could I use the stitch assistant in order to help me? Canon PhotoStitch software has a feature, but I wonder if someone has used it.

regards

[jlocatell]

Any recommendation?

Maybe need of have the same zoom for every pict for be stitched?

I wonder how the stitch asistant function could help in have matrix-style panoramas.

ideas?

thanks

-jl

[sleeping_tiger_62]

Hi jlocatell,

Perhaps you can read also the thread "Flash and stitch assist". There are some useful discussion there as well.

I have not tried it myself, but I believe it just might be possible to do some matrix stitching as the PhotoStitch software allows you to manually overlay the photographs to assist its autostitching routine.

Read up also on the camera's manual and software manual. From there, its just experimenting and trying to see what really works.

Have fun.

[tgnych]

Fyi I am even using the digital zoom for night shots and the result is very good, as well. To avoid any focus issue I use the timer for low shutter speed (1" and above); this also allows to control the amount of light and to seek the best exposure.

Only one question, though - when shooting a tall skyscraper in 2-3 segments, the stiched result shows the building as convex (this must be a perspective issue). Does anyone have a way to correct this?

BTW Sunil, great pics that you've got!

[stopbath]

You'll likely need to adjust all of the photos for perspective control. Adjust each as needed. This is likely to be a painful and tedious session