Product reviews by Morris Lee
Panoweaver
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Updated: 16 Dec 2005 at 3:52 GMT,
by Morris Lee
I’ve been using the version 4 for several months, and getting very well with it. I became interested because it supports images shot by many DSLR cameras. It stitches 4 drum fisheye images and 4 or 6 full frame images besides 2 or 3 full circular. I make the 4 drum images mostly, with my Canon 20D and Sigma 8mm. The automatic stitching is fast and fairly good. You can also refine it by adding pairs of matching points in the overlapping images manually, which makes the stitching much perfectly.
In addition, Panoweaver 4 integrates up and down fisheye images as sky and ground to cover the gaps. So you can get a full 360 by 360 spherical panorama. Of course, some retouching work is needed on the seams of the sky and ground.
Other features I found useful include: the ability to save stitching parameter settings, a zoom range from 12.5% to 800%, and the full screen QTVR output. I also like its easy going interface.
In a nutshell, it’s an efficient stitching tool and produces high quality panoramas.