Re: QTVR

["R. Jackson" <rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Denis,

> I installed Panorama Tools and am slowly coming up to speed with it. It
> look like it will do a good job, once I master it.

Prof. Dersch makes a great set of tools, and I am far from mastering it,
save some of it's simpler applications for correction and remapping.
 
> Does anyone have a different preferred stitch/convert tool? 

I don't know what you failed at stitching you 18 mm images... what is
the software program? and what platform are you on?

With 10-12 images you should be able to do a fine job of stitching with
a number of programs that are fast and efficient and far easier than the
difficult GUI of Panorama Tools.  I personally use both Apple's
Quicktime VR Authoring Studio (Mac only) and Live Picture's Photovista
(Mac or PC).  For lens correction and remapping I don't think you can
beat Panorama tools.

Since many of the ones that I create are destined only for the web, I
find that film is a needless additional expense and rely on a Nikon 900s
digital camera with the wide angle adapter (24 mm equivalent in a 35mm
format).  However I use Helmut Dersch's "Correction" tool to remove the
slight fish eye that this adapter suffers from.  But prior to my
acquisition of the digital camera I was using Nikon's 20 mm lens for VR
creation exclusively.

If you would like send me, privately, a reasonable sized set of images
that you used for your VR attempt and I will have a look at them.

I still have not gotten the 18 mm like yours that I admired on the final
day of the IAPP meeting in Moab, but I distinctly remember looking
through it on your F5.  My new F100 will be here in a few days. ;-)

ps.

There is a lively and active discussion about Prof. Dersch's Panorama
Tools on the VR-Issues and QTVR lists (see
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/developers/devsupport.html)  Also Prof.
Dersch cannot be mentioned without the totally unjustified legal tactics
of IPIX against his free software, see 

http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/sphere_format/Spherical.html

for his own words

and

http://www.iqtvra.org/noipix.html

for the words of others.



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R. Jackson
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http://www.rj3graphics.com/