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Re: PTGui 9.0.4. VP correction problem
Posted: 6 Jul 2011 at 17:18 GMT
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Thank you John.
I tried to edit the post above but I was prevented from either previewing or saving the changes. A complete start from scratch recovered this, however en route I encountered a few oddities - like the optimiser reporting good results but the vpc stitch still bad. Having just updated the program I jumped to the premature assumption that it might be a bug...
Meanwhile given the plethora of (to me) not terribly interesting changes and additions to recent versions of PTGui I just wish that it was better at automatic control point generation. It gets wearisome having to add them in the upper and lower 25% (guess) of each pair even when there's plenty of well defined detail present.
And whilst I'm complaining, I notice that EnfuseGui still can't cope with (ie throw away) the embedded thumbnails in tif files generated from Nikon NEFs. Not that it seems to cause much of a problem...
Roy
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PTGui 9.0.4. VP correction problem
Posted: 6 Jul 2011 at 16:16 GMT
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I recently updated to this version. I've just assembled a pano using the tried and tested methods and all's well until I try to add the offset viewpoint correction shot. After the second optimisation, checking the VPC check-box, the optimizer still reports errors in the thousands of pixels - and subsequent unusable stitching.
I'd appreciate any clues anyone might offer. I've removed the file, replaced it and reset the control points, to no avail. Having previously done a few hundred panos without any errors, this is a bit alarming.
Roy
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Nikon 10.5 FE - professionally shaved
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Re: Nikon 10.5 FE - professionally shaved
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 22:14 GMT
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If the person who contacted me about this is an established contributor to Panoguide forums, would they please indicate here. Country of residence appreciated too.
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Nikon 10.5 FE - professionally shaved
Posted: 24 Feb 2011 at 9:53 GMT
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I need to change over to permanent full-frame so I'd like to sell the above. I've been using it on both DX and FX bodies and the lack of the vestigial lens hood has little or no effect on the flare characteristics. The lens has been modestly and carefully used and as far as I can tell is perfect. The modification was done by a professional photographic service and hire company in London. The lens is about 3 years old and has never exhibited any problems.
I would prefer to sell this to a UK buyer in my area (southern England) but if the security issues can be satisfactorily addressed I can send it further afield.
I can supply detail photos if required. The performance of these lenses is generally known to be excellent. The small degree of ca is easily addressed assuming one is shooting RAW files.
Offers please!
Roy
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Re: REVOLUTIONARY HDR software
Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 17:07 GMT
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An interesting prototype for sure, but it looks a long way short of releasable version to me. If it's trying to be a viable RAW processor at the same time they've got a lot of work to do. As someone else noted, there isn't even any ca correction. No batch functions either. And the basic user interface, apart from the palettes on the right, is still primitive and the menus largely unpopulated. Given the current highly evolved state of many RAW processing applications IMHO they'd do better to concentrate on the HDR/tonemapping functions etc.
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panoguide search engine
Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 11:37 GMT
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Just did a search limited to the last year and it returned identical results to the unlimited search - some posts from 2004 included!
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Re: Any chance of some help?
Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 14:51 GMT
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My mistake...
I took a quick look at your site, which looks very nice. My only comment would be that given the size of the display window and the zoom range the panos are a bit slow to load.
Why would I regret looking?
Roy
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Re: Any chance of some help?
Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 10:41 GMT
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Hi Mathrafal
I just downloaded and launched your presentation however whilst it runs none of the VR panos are displayed. I can get back to the main menu and select different locations but never see any panos. Clicking on one of the links on the skins brought up a floorplan but none of the hotspots launched a pano.
I'm running this on a Win7 PC.
The overall design is excellent though!
Roy
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NX2 embedded thumbnails = Enfuse/GUI problems.
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Re: NX2 embedded thumbnails = Enfuse/GUI problems.
Posted: 10 Jul 2010 at 19:24 GMT
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Thanks Mathrafal.
Ingemar says that there's a fix in the pipeline for the Enfuse bug, ETA unknown. But you're right, PTGui blends out the offending pixels without complaining. I'd rather it didn't have to though.
Roy
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NX2 embedded thumbnails = Enfuse/GUI problems.
Posted: 10 Jul 2010 at 16:58 GMT
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I use NX2 for RAW conversion because I like the results. I also use Enfuse, with the EnfuseGUI front end. On my old system (XP Pro 32 bit and previous appropriate versions of software) this has been reliable. Having just built a Win7 64 bit box and installed various current versions of everything, I'm encountering a nasty problem. Enfusing sets of NX2-converted tifs I'm getting tiny ghost thumbnail of the same image in the top l/h corner of the output files.
Ingemar Bergemark, the author of EnfuseGUI tells me that this is caused by the fact that the NX2 tifs are dual-layer, containing the thumbnail files. Opening these files into CS3 and resaving eliminates this problem, however it adds a tedious extra phase into what is already a long workflow and offsets the advantage of having built a fast box.
Does anyone have a suggestion how this might be addressed?
Roy
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comparison of Flash authoring software please
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Re: comparison of Flash authoring software please
Posted: 7 May 2010 at 15:07 GMT
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Well, you're obviously a lot cleverer than me - or just good at intuiting what is skipped over in the tutorials. I have just wasted an entire day: nothing I can do will enable linking a hotspot to a page of wikipedia.
Take a look at the tutorials some time: at one point the voiceover completely omits mention of the vital mouse-click that takes place (blink and you'll miss it) on an "edit" button. You could scarcely do better if the intention was to deliberately confuse.
I have spent half a lifetime working with software (admittedly not websites) and written reams of documentation for users - amongst other things. Don't try to tell me this stuff is well presented.
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Re: comparison of Flash authoring software please
Posted: 7 May 2010 at 14:33 GMT
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Phew. As usual with these things more heat than light has been generated! Or so it seems to me.
I'm currently suffering from my attempts to use Pano2VR to create a modest tour - simply incorporating a variety of hotspots; web links, stills, and associated .swf panos. When starting out with any new software package, no matter how big or small, it's always difficult to determine whether the difficulties are caused by obtuseness in the design or by obtuseness in the user. Usually a bit of both in my experience - but I'm over 60 and my brain - never the best - has degenerated perceptibly.
Pano2VR does some odd stuff. It runs out of memory very easily. OK, so I use smaller test files. Now the hotspots... whether or not it generates the .png associated hotspot file (only required for the area hotspots? dunno) seems to be random. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. This has wasted about a day so far - I even searched the entire pc in case it was stashing them somewhere obscure; it wasn't - they simply hadn't been generated. Is this sequence dependant; I've been trying to work this out for a few hours now and still have no idea.
A couple of days ago I could link web url's to the hotspots successfully; today I can't - even though .swf's and jpegs are located successfully by the hotspots (either area or point). Even tracking the tutorial click-for-click fails to deliver a result. Two days ago I was at the stage of creating custom hotspots/skins but now I'm back almost at sq. 1 - all because I don't want to skip any stages in case they come back to bite me in the bum.
Is this a typical experience with Pano2VR? Is Flashificator this difficult to engage with?
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comparison of Flash authoring software please
Posted: 3 May 2010 at 15:18 GMT
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I am currently using Pano2VR - in a fairly simple way. It seems to suffer from memory leaks when inputting large files. I also find that the hotspot facilities are a bit crude - although I admit this is the first time I've used them. For example I found no easy way of simply deleting an unwanted point hotspot.
I recently read an interesting thread here which included a discussion of the various delivery modes - flash v java for example - where other flash authoring applications were mentioned. Could anyone summarise - or point me at a summary - of the considerations involved in this choice. Flashificator seemed to be a contender; but that's perhaps because the author was a contributor to the discussion.
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NN3 / Nikkor 10.5 FE (shaved hood)
Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 12:17 GMT
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I have both of the above. The NN3 is equipped with the new tensioner and an anti-twist plate, plus all the original bits T-piece etc. It's been used quite a lot and is a bit cosmetically ugly, but in fine working order; which is to say it works the same as the day I bought it only better (replaced tensioner, anti twist...)
The Nikkor is 2 years old and was professionally de-hooded so that it can also be used as a circular FE on a full-frame body. I haven't noticed any increase in susceptibility to flare despite the removal of the lenshood. In other respects the lens is in perfect condition.
Realistic offers only please.
Roy
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