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From a recent trip with the Stylus 1

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Valentin G Contributing Member • Posts: 920
From a recent trip with the Stylus 1
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I got the camera back in May and liked it a lot so decided to make it my travel camera this Summer for a trip to Bulgaria. The camera did great, especially for family photos. The 2.8 lens was great for portraits and the hot shoe allowed bounced flash indoors. Here are some photos.

Taking off from SFO. Downtown and the Bay Bridge with Treasure Island in the middle and Mt Diablo in the distance. I was surprised that it turned decent through the not very clean window.

Ancient theatre of Philippopolis, Plovdiv. Built 1st Century AD. Panorama from 4 images. The sun was right above the frame on the right so quite a bit of magenta cast which I could not completely remove.

Old Town Plovdiv. 19th Century house

The main Bulgarian Orthodox Cathedral in downtown Sofia.

This is from few years ago to give perspective where it is located. The building to the right of the cathedral in the Parliament.

Nessebar Old Town waterfront.

One of the many old churches in Nessebar

Prohodna (Eyes of God) Cave

From a moving car. The wheat is almost ready for harvest.

And some from my mom's garden.

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John McCormack
John McCormack Veteran Member • Posts: 7,098
Re: From a recent trip with the Stylus 1. Day 7 With Covid-19
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Nice set. The Stylus 1 (and you) did a fine job.

We went to France in June. Spent 16 days on the Seine river and Normandy with mask mandates in place 24/7, but no matter how careful you are you can still get Covid when tourist sites, airports and planes are packed with people. Now we're locked down so I have plenty of time to process images.

Be very careful this summer. The day we visited Mont St. Michel they had 15,000 visitors.

Eye of the Needle at Etretat in France.

jlina
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Beautiful! The shot of San Francisco is very well composed, and the other ones are just so old world feeling so beautiful... Bulgaria seems to be a hidden gem

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Ken Croft Senior Member • Posts: 1,803
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Valentin. For stitching panoramas there is some free software known as ICE (Inage Composite Editor) by Microsoft that allows a number of different projections of the finished panorama which can avoid the wierd fish-eye type of distortion evident when an extreme wide area of view is being combined. Microsoft have discontinued this free prroduct but if you could find a copy on line I am sure you would find it useful.

Other than this comment, you have a nice set of pictures from an oldie but goldie camera.

Ken C

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I too am glad you bought the camera, thanks for the vacation!

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OP Valentin G Contributing Member • Posts: 920
Re: From a recent trip with the Stylus 1

Ken Croft wrote:

Valentin. For stitching panoramas there is some free software known as ICE (Inage Composite Editor) by Microsoft that allows a number of different projections of the finished panorama which can avoid the wierd fish-eye type of distortion evident when an extreme wide area of view is being combined. Microsoft have discontinued this free prroduct but if you could find a copy on line I am sure you would find it useful.

Other than this comment, you have a nice set of pictures from an oldie but goldie camera.

Ken C

Thank you, for the suggestion, Ken. I will look this up although it might not work for me since I stich the panos directly from RAW files in Lightroom.

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OP Valentin G Contributing Member • Posts: 920
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elliottnewcomb wrote:

I too am glad you bought the camera, thanks for the vacation!

I'm glad you liked them and thank you for the settings post! It helped me a lot when I got the camera.

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OP Valentin G Contributing Member • Posts: 920
Re: From a recent trip with the Stylus 1. Day 7 With Covid-19

Thanks for the comment John and safe travels!

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OP Valentin G Contributing Member • Posts: 920
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Thanks, jlina! The SF shot took some cropping (getting rid of the plane's wing) and straightening to make it look well composed. There is lots of historical places in Bulgaria. The country was founded in 681 AD but there are remains of older civilizations all over the land. On the pathway between Europe and Asia, those lands have been traversed by various people for thousands of years.

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Ken Croft Senior Member • Posts: 1,803
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Valentin G wrote:

Ken Croft wrote:

Valentin. For stitching panoramas there is some free software known as ICE (Inage Composite Editor) by Microsoft that allows a number of different projections of the finished panorama which can avoid the wierd fish-eye type of distortion evident when an extreme wide area of view is being combined. Microsoft have discontinued this free prroduct but if you could find a copy on line I am sure you would find it useful.

Other than this comment, you have a nice set of pictures from an oldie but goldie camera.

Ken C

Thank you, for the suggestion, Ken. I will look this up although it might not work for me since I stich the panos directly from RAW files in Lightroom.

ICE only works with jpg files not raw. I too shoot raw with the Stylus1 but I use an old version of DXO Optics Pro Elite because the Prime noise reduction is amazing and allows me to use stupidy high ISO settings otherwise unusable. But I think you may be surprized by what ICE can do. Why not try it with some jpg files just to find out for yourself.

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ICE works with linear DNGs generated from RAW by DXO

Ken Croft wrote:

Valentin G wrote:

Ken Croft wrote:

Valentin. For stitching panoramas there is some free software known as ICE (Inage Composite Editor) by Microsoft that allows a number of different projections of the finished panorama which can avoid the wierd fish-eye type of distortion evident when an extreme wide area of view is being combined. Microsoft have discontinued this free prroduct but if you could find a copy on line I am sure you would find it useful.

Other than this comment, you have a nice set of pictures from an oldie but goldie camera.

Ken C

Thank you, for the suggestion, Ken. I will look this up although it might not work for me since I stich the panos directly from RAW files in Lightroom.

ICE only works with jpg files not raw.

ICE works with linear DNGs generated from RAW by DXO!   (no?)

At lest that's what I experienced with my Sony RX10 IV. Have to try with my Stylus 1s - why shouldn't it work also?

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OP Valentin G Contributing Member • Posts: 920
Re: From a recent trip with the Stylus 1

Ken Croft wrote:

Valentin G wrote:

Ken Croft wrote:

Valentin. For stitching panoramas there is some free software known as ICE (Inage Composite Editor) by Microsoft that allows a number of different projections of the finished panorama which can avoid the wierd fish-eye type of distortion evident when an extreme wide area of view is being combined. Microsoft have discontinued this free prroduct but if you could find a copy on line I am sure you would find it useful.

Other than this comment, you have a nice set of pictures from an oldie but goldie camera.

Ken C

Thank you, for the suggestion, Ken. I will look this up although it might not work for me since I stich the panos directly from RAW files in Lightroom.

ICE only works with jpg files not raw. I too shoot raw with the Stylus1 but I use an old version of DXO Optics Pro Elite because the Prime noise reduction is amazing and allows me to use stupidy high ISO settings otherwise unusable. But I think you may be surprized by what ICE can do. Why not try it with some jpg files just to find out for yourself.

I managed to locate the software and tried it. Indeed  - it is much superior to Adobe 's algorithms. It is a shame that Adobe does not buy or license a 3rd party tool to improve the Lightroom panorama stitching. There is way to supposedly read RAW files with a 3rd party software but that software has not been updated for a while. Here is the new version with ICE. The improvement is most noticeable in the left part of the image where the curve of the stone wall is preserved as in the original photo and the stairs are not deformed. Thanks again for the recommendation!

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Ken Croft Senior Member • Posts: 1,803
Re: ICE works with linear DNGs generated from RAW by DXO

Kerusker wrote:

Ken Croft wrote:

Valentin G wrote:

Ken Croft wrote:

Valentin. For stitching panoramas there is some free software known as ICE (Inage Composite Editor) by Microsoft that allows a number of different projections of the finished panorama which can avoid the wierd fish-eye type of distortion evident when an extreme wide area of view is being combined. Microsoft have discontinued this free prroduct but if you could find a copy on line I am sure you would find it useful.

Other than this comment, you have a nice set of pictures from an oldie but goldie camera.

Ken C

Thank you, for the suggestion, Ken. I will look this up although it might not work for me since I stich the panos directly from RAW files in Lightroom.

ICE only works with jpg files not raw.

ICE works with linear DNGs generated from RAW by DXO! (no?)

At lest that's what I experienced with my Sony RX10 IV. Have to try with my Stylus 1s - why shouldn't it work also?

I was about to test this, but I discovered that the panorama function in the Stylus1 only saves jpg files, not raw, so I will try again but not using the pano function.

Tried again with raw files but not using the pan function.

So, ICE does work with with DNG files generated by my old DXO Optics Pro10 from raw files of the Stylus1 . To get projection options you must choose the rotating camera motion as an option.

Thanks for correcting my error. Maybe it works with any dng files.

Ken C

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