It's a Stitch-up

[Fergie]

My first use of the 'Stitch' facility with my G9 and I was amazed at the result so I just had to post it somewhere.



The photo was taken a couple of weeks ago at Fraserburgh harbour.

Do you guys often use the stitch feature.
I would like to see some samples of photos that have ben merged 'in camera'.

Cheers.

[Yapo]

oh wow that looks flawless! All the panorama stitches ive done with my ixus 60 have always had visible seams. I shall have to try it out on my G10 once i get it back...there was a dead pixel on the sensor so i took it back but the shop was out of stock and they were told that g10s were backordered from canon so they dont know when they'll get more stock!

[Rare1]

Was this two shots together?

[Fergie]

Yes Rare1, it was two shots.

[ryandood]

I've never used the in-camera stitch assist but often use the software provided with the camera to stitch together panos. I must be doing something wrong because almost all of mine come out with the seems visible at least a little bit, even with the use of a tripod. The downside to the in-camera stitch assist is that it only works in landscape and I'd prefer to take panos in portrait.

So does the in-camera assist completely stitch it together for you or just make it easier once loaded onto the computer?

[SamClarkPhotography]

Can you highlight or point out where the seams approx. are? How about linking to a full-sized version? It looks great from here...

[denncald]

Originally Posted by ryandood

So does the in-camera assist completely stitch it together for you or just make it easier once loaded onto the computer?

The camera feature is supposed to make it easier to overlap your images for each shot. When properly overlapped they will stitch together better on your computer using the PhotoStitch software supplied with the camera.

I haven't used it much, but it does work good when you are careful about each shot alignment. I had one series I took that didn't align very well on the second shot in the seven shot, hand-held series. I tried Microsoft's ICE software with the same series, and it came out much better, but still not perfect due to that one shot.



The link for MS ICE is;

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/...roups/ivm/ICE/

Dennis

[Fergie]

Sam..I imagine the merge would be somewhere 'midship'. As I had no hand in it, it's hard to say.

I was at Carlisle Castle a couple of days ago and tried a 'Stitch' shot with three images and another 'Stitch' shot using just two images. Five photos in total.


...................................... As can be seen the three shot stitch was a shambles.

I then tried for the two shot stitch and got this...



It was much better than the three shot one.

Below are the two shots that were used.

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Cheers.