Comments on: RealViz Stitcher 5 Review vs PTgui 5.1

By: Smithee

Smithee — Tue, 16 May 2006 11:01:00 +0000

Thanks for the post Anon – we did of course use the High Distortion tool. To not use that would be well…

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 May 2006 07:52:00 +0000

Umm, say. Did you bother to try the “High Distortion” tool?

Stitcher stitched my ultra-wide images after using this tool. If you didn’t try the internal distortion correction, well…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:35:00 +0000

I would think that Stitcher who will come out with a new version stitching program in 3 months capable of working on Fish eye images will do a good job.

Even if some images won't give on stitcher 5.1, you should know that fisheye images aren't as precise as normal 30mm images.

I tend to keep giving big hopes in stitcher because they work on all our problems and have a good after sales groupe.

By: BigGreenFurryThing

BigGreenFurryThing — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:47:00 +0000

Reassuring to find I’m not alone in my feelings for and experiences of Stitcher 5. I use a Canon 20D with 15mm lens and have a convoluted workflow producing HDR’d images with no lens correction. PTGUI stitches these distorted HDR images without a qualm. Great results. Stitcher fails to accurately stitch even corrected images despite my attempts with two lens distortion programs: BreezeBrowser Pro and DxO Optic Pro.

By: Greg Takacs

Greg Takacs — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:34:00 +0000

I just posted the very same gripes over on the Realviz forum. http://forum.realviz.com/viewtopic.php?t=2108

I feel good that it’s not just me who had these issues. Oh and I have tried DxO Optics Pro to do the defishing as well and the results were even worse than with Nikon Capture as far as stitching goes.

I also tried PTAdjust for another set of Nikon 10.5mm images (not mine, found it on another pano stitching application site as their demo pictures) and the results were the same, except even more ghosting. Note that those pictures weren’t shot by me so I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the nodal point. But the very same pictures stitched flawlessly in PTGui using smartblend. Go figure…..

By: Smithee

Smithee — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:09:00 +0000

We have used PTA Adjust but found from use that Nikon Capture was fine for previous versions of Stitcher. As the review says most of the panoramas on this blog we created using Stitcher 3.5 using Nikon Capture with great results.

We are big fans of Stitcher but version 5 does not seem to cut it.

With a manual stitch it produced a 'stitch engine error' and shut down. Not what you want from $580 software, losing 20 minutes of work.

Smithee

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:03:00 +0000

If you won’t even try PTAdjust, you’re comparison is bogus.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:44:00 +0000

I’m quite happy with the semi-autostitch feature (I still like a _little_ hands on control) in Stitcher 5.0. Images were defished using Nikon Capture and Stitched using a Mac laptop, so using PTgui isn’t an option.

By: Smithee

Smithee — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:33:00 +0000

I would tend to disagree, they worked fine in previous versions, even being able to batch stitch in a template. Batch stitching is an option that seems to of been removed in version 5?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:29:00 +0000

Nikon Capture does a very bad job of defishing images for Stitcher!

Try the PTAdjust plugin for Photoshop, with the HFOV set to 90 degrees to get properly defished images before running Stitcher.