Does Anyone here Stitch?

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:


Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

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Hi Ted,

I have done some Pano work with an sd quattro h. I have used Hugin to stitch.

This is an 8 panel stitch.



View attachment 97fd2d1ff7654c67a54c982e7acf6595.jpg

Jeffry7 said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

Hi Ted,

I have done some Pano work with an sd quattro h. I have used Hugin to stitch.

This is an 8 panel stitch.

View attachment 97fd2d1ff7654c67a54c982e7acf6595.jpg

Click to expand...

Was this correctly leveled? Did you have it on tripod or just manually shot it?

The horizon looks a bit off.



I used to do a ton of stitching.. Even got full 360 deg HDRs for image based lighting in 2000s.

Stillton said:

Jeffry7 said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

Hi Ted,

I have done some Pano work with an sd quattro h. I have used Hugin to stitch.

This is an 8 panel stitch.

View attachment 97fd2d1ff7654c67a54c982e7acf6595.jpg

Click to expand...

Was this correctly leveled? Did you have it on tripod or just manually shot it?

The horizon looks a bit off.

I used to do a ton of stitching.. Even got full 360 deg HDRs for image based lighting in 2000s.

Click to expand...

It was on a tripod with a panning head. I did level it but just with the spirit level built in to the head.

Jeffry7 said:

Stillton said:

Jeffry7 said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

Hi Ted,

I have done some Pano work with an sd quattro h. I have used Hugin to stitch.

This is an 8 panel stitch.

View attachment 97fd2d1ff7654c67a54c982e7acf6595.jpg

Click to expand...

Was this correctly leveled? Did you have it on tripod or just manually shot it?

The horizon looks a bit off.

I used to do a ton of stitching.. Even got full 360 deg HDRs for image based lighting in 2000s.

Click to expand...

It was on a tripod with a panning head. I did level it but just with the spirit level built in to the head.

Click to expand...

hmm, strange. The head should have given you everything leveled by default.. assuming the level is correct. The right side of the image just visually looks higher than the left.. a tiny bit but enough to catch my attention. Is this how the lay of the land was with this stream? Just looks a bit off to me.

I have used my SD Quattro H to capture photos that I intended to stitch Ted, but was too lazy to actually stitch them.



That said, I have stitched several photos together, using Hugin in the past, and it worked reasonably well. If you're thinking about trying it, I say go for it. That's a pretty good program, though I did find it was a little difficult to figure out at first. I'm sure you, with all your software experience, can figure it out in an hour or less. I probably spent an hour or two stitching a few photos into a couple of larger images, and I got a feel for the program. I didn't use that again though. I did once try using Photoshop to stitch, if I remember correctly, and it worked pretty well too. I used another program too (Lightroom, I think). I have stitched photos together by using layers in GIMP too. It's a reasonably good way to do it too, but not as easy/quick as using Hugin. I think my best automatic results came from Hugin.

Stillton said:

Jeffry7 said:

Stillton said:

Jeffry7 said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

Hi Ted,

I have done some Pano work with an sd quattro h. I have used Hugin to stitch.

This is an 8 panel stitch.

View attachment 97fd2d1ff7654c67a54c982e7acf6595.jpg

Click to expand...

Was this correctly leveled? Did you have it on tripod or just manually shot it?

The horizon looks a bit off.

I used to do a ton of stitching.. Even got full 360 deg HDRs for image based lighting in 2000s.

Click to expand...

It was on a tripod with a panning head. I did level it but just with the spirit level built in to the head.

Click to expand...

hmm, strange. The head should have given you everything leveled by default.. assuming the level is correct. The right side of the image just visually looks higher than the left.. a tiny bit but enough to catch my attention. Is this how the lay of the land was with this stream? Just looks a bit off to me.

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I would say that since the right side is the up-stream side of this image it makes sense for the stream to be sloping down from right to left. Maybe a left-right flipped mirror image of it would help your mind see it as normal. It's difficult to see streams flowing from right to left for some people (me included). It looks unnatural to me for some reason. Maybe it's because I'm used to seeing vehicles go from left to right (the closer ones). Maybe I'm just weird.



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I use PTGUI, Hugin stuttered too much for me and was very slow. link to a stitch of 12 photos made handheld (no pano head) of a group of trees nearby https://luukdeweert.nl/vlak/bomengroot.jpg .

A very impressive stitch is that of London by Jeffrey Martin ( 320 Gigapixel...) https://360gigapixels.com/london-320-gigapixel-panorama/london-320-gigapixel-panorama_iframe.html .

I have also worked with Kolor Autopano Giga but that no longer exists.

9 photo's stitched, Jaarbeurs Utrecht



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Scottelly said:

I would say that since the right side is the up-stream side of this image it makes sense for the stream to be sloping down from right to left. Maybe a left-right flipped mirror image of it would help your mind see it as normal. It's difficult to see streams flowing from right to left for some people (me included). It looks unnatural to me for some reason. Maybe it's because I'm used to seeing vehicles go from left to right (the closer ones). Maybe I'm just weird.

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Maybe it's because we read from left to right...

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

Laurence Matson did a lot of stitched images - some of them were truly huge.

I have one of his proof prints that was made from at least 6 shots as I recall. It's stunning.




Made with the SD14





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Thomas Mottl used to post amazing stitched panos years ago.

Stillton said:

Jeffry7 said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

Hi Ted,

I have done some Pano work with an sd quattro h. I have used Hugin to stitch.

This is an 8 panel stitch.

View attachment 97fd2d1ff7654c67a54c982e7acf6595.jpg

Click to expand...

Was this correctly leveled? Did you have it on tripod or just manually shot it?

The horizon looks a bit off.

Click to expand...

An unbelievable belittlement of Jeffry's image, complaint filed.

Stillton said:

I used to do a ton of stitching.. Even got full 360 deg HDRs for image based lighting in 2000s.

Click to expand...

Of course you did ...

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

All the time.

The following are all multi shot panoramic images using a sdqh

Probably between 8-30 images each (Because too much Larger then that gets cumbersome to edit, stich, ect)

So they are probably between 100-200mp



















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xpatUSA2 said:

Stillton said:

Jeffry7 said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

Hi Ted,

I have done some Pano work with an sd quattro h. I have used Hugin to stitch.

This is an 8 panel stitch.

View attachment 97fd2d1ff7654c67a54c982e7acf6595.jpg

Click to expand...

Was this correctly leveled? Did you have it on tripod or just manually shot it?

The horizon looks a bit off.

Click to expand...

An unbelievable belittlement of Jeffry's image, complaint filed.

Click to expand...

Not at all, it is a good image. I simply stated that something looked off to me. It doesn't mean that the image is bad. It could have been just me lol.
I did a ton of these stitched images, which is why this misalignment caught my eye. In PTGUI there was a tool to correct for this. I dont know if Hugin can do that.

xpatUSA2 said:

xpatUSA2 said:

I used to do a ton of stitching.. Even got full 360 deg HDRs for image based lighting in 2000s.

Click to expand...

Of course you did ...

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I did a quite a bit of CG/rendering work for our design team - building, "lighting" and rendering CG elements with HDR was one of my tasks. It was me and my other teammate's decision to try HDR and pano HDR for that.

It worked much better than the standard process.
We had to take not just a bunch of images for 360deg panorama, but also to exposure-bracket them to get HDR before we would stitch. I think we used either EXR or HDR files for that.

Stillton said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Stillton said:

Jeffry7 said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

Hi Ted,

I have done some Pano work with an sd quattro h. I have used Hugin to stitch.

This is an 8 panel stitch.

View attachment 97fd2d1ff7654c67a54c982e7acf6595.jpg

Click to expand...

Was this correctly leveled? Did you have it on tripod or just manually shot it?

The horizon looks a bit off.

Click to expand...

An unbelievable belittlement of Jeffry's image, complaint filed.

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

Stillton said:

Not at all, it is a good image.

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You did not say it was a good image, you only criticized it. Too late to say now that it is a good image ... the damage is already done.

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

I did it quite often when I shot the SD14 and 15 due to their small 4.7mp file sizes with some of the stitches in the dozens. I started out being very fussy using a tripod and pano head but I soon discovered that if I was careful I could also do smaller panos handheld.




Pano stitch made from 34 shots using the SD14 and 150mm f4 Pentax m42 lens.

Hi Ted
I have used Microsoft ICE, Image Composite Editor.
It has been discontinued but available freely online.
It is very automated or can be manually fine tuned.

mike earussi said:

xpatUSA2 said:

Inspired by the 3GP camera in the new telescope in Chile:

https://openphotographyforums.com/f...gapixel-camera-but-not-for-your-pocket.26597/

Like in other such imagers, it is said to use an array of 189 actual sensors, each 16MB.

On that same principle, one could get a 200MP+ image from nine (3x3) shots using a Quattro H and stitching them up with such as 'Hugin'.

Anybody here done that or similar?

Click to expand...

I did it quite often when I shot the SD14 and 15 due to their small 4.7mp file sizes with some of the stitches in the dozens. I started out being very fussy using a tripod and pano head but I soon discovered that if I was careful I could also do smaller panos handheld.

Pano stitch made from 34 shots using the SD14 and 150mm f4 Pentax m42 lens.

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Good one, Mike!!

I do a bit of stitching from time to time. I've tried different pano software, most of it is pretty good. My software of choice (because it runs on Linux and has been very reliable) is PTGui.

One interesting technique I use (with my Sony) is using a Fotodiox Rhinocam Vertex rotary stitcher. A different approach from most stitching gear. The vertex takes advantage of medium format lenses (I use Pentax 645 manual lenses which can be found remarkably cheaply). You clamp the Vertex adaptor to a tripod, then you rotate the camera body, using it as a kind of digital back. You take a shot, turn it 90 degrees, take a second shot, turn it another 90 degrees and so on. The vertex has an offset 24x36mm window in it that rotates around a centre point. It turns a 24x36mm FF sensor into a 46x46mm square virtual sensor (a 10mm crop from 120 6x6 film format).

I use it with my 60MP A7Riv and the final stitched image is 150MP.

It's a fun gadget and if you are into square MF style images a useful and convenient way to get a digital version.

I use PTGui to stitch the 4 frames, it has no problem automatically rotating and organising the frames into a square output image.

Having provided such a glowing review, I have to say I don't use it very often. The 150MP images are big and detailed but I don't find 150MP any advantage over, say, 16MP images at the size I have chosen for my 'posh' prints: 12" x 12" square. The printer, ink and paper limitations mean that at that size the extra detail is invisible.

I don't have a vertex that can work on my SD15, sadly.

Here's an example image downsized to a mere 9MP:



One amusing gotcha you have to look out for is not to accidentally leave the Sony in APS-C mode otherwise you get this:



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Hey Dave, that's a very cool technique.

Have you tried it with your Fuji GFX50S -- and would you have to use 35mm mode?

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