Product reviews by cougar66
Panorama Maker
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Updated: 1 Aug 2009 at 23:57 GMT,
by cougar66
I have purchased copies of the profesional platforms of both Arcsoft Panorama Maker and Panavue Image Assembler. I regret purchasing the latter - its clunky and is very much inferior to the Arcsoft platform.
Panorama Maker has an easy to use grahics interface. IT WILL STITCH RAW FILES FOR MANY CAMERA MODELS to preserve IQ. Provided ALL CAMERA SETTING ARE MANUAL, the lens has little geometric distortion and the tripod is tweaked to be ABSOLUTELY HORIZONTAL with a spirit level. The results are QUICK AND OUTSTANDING.
There will be little loss of image area, an ability to do tilt control with perfect seamless panos with no visible artefacts. In addition PM will do rows enabling mosaics of up to x9 frames to yield image quality equivalent to medium to large format film.
I can only guess that poor reviews of this pacakge are the result of not having properly prepared the camera and tripod. It takes 5 minutes to set up (timed) and then the sky is the limit in terms of image quality and flexibility. Well done Arcsoft !