How to stitch a large number of panoramic groups of photos automatically?

[filibuster]

Bert, I like to shoot pano’s from time to time, and I am grateful to Ken53 above for linking to my shot at Witley Court with Microsoft ICE. Your suggestion however, of taking a quick shot of your foot to separate pano groups is quite brilliant and I shall adopt that idea from now on (and wonder why I never thought of something so simple.)
Hz10: Here are a couple or few more with ICE









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[hz10]

The pictures are breathtaking! I cannot see any trace of stitching. The originals must be in very high quality.

ICE is significantly better than PhotoStitch. I do not have good luck with water. I guess this has to do with the motion of the water, so I do not blame ICE. The attached two photos taken at dusk at Crane Beach a few hours ago show the issue.

Now, I am debating whether I should get Sony WX150 or Panasonic ZS19. Even with their panorama features, I think, ICE is still needed for some situations.

 

[hz10]

I want to report back with my first experience of using Lumix DMC-ZS20.

I received it on Oct. 4. After familiarizing myself with the camera, I used it extensively on Oct. 6. Here are the photos:

https://plus.google.com/photos/117064468060383701329/albums/5796362190871636049

Jeff Keller’s review helped me make up my mind to choose ZS20. My one-day use supports his comprehensive review:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonic-lumix-dmc-zs20-tz30-review

The panorama function, which is the primary reason for me to upgrade to this camera, works well. It may fail occasionally for understandable reasons which include moving objects, drastic variation of brightness from one part to another part of the panoramic scene.

The GPS is the second reason for me to choose ZS20. It works well too. It takes a few minutes for it to acquire satellite signals. This is probably normal. However, I think that smartphones seem to be quicker in positioning, so there may be room for GPS function improvement. Because of this, I had to keep GPS on all the time hence draining the battery.

The Optical Image Stabilizer works very well. I get clear images even with high zoom.

I love the sunset mode. I used it for sunrise. It was my first time to get decent sunrise pictures with a P&S camera.

The battery ran out after about 210 photos in 6 hours. I certainly need a backup battery or portable battery charger because I tend to have long trips.

I am amazed by what one can get from a compact camera like this nowadays.

Hong

 

[pineledger]

From my limited amateur experience, I have had very good luck with Microsoft ICE. I've used my antedeluvian version of PSE but ICE does better, especially for blending skies.

 

[toomanycanons]

Microsoft ICE. Well, you have to load the pics into the program so that's not automatic. Then you have to press the button that says "yeah, please stitch these pics" so that's not automatic. Maybe all of that is a deal killer for you? BTW, it's a free program.

 

[Coyote_Cody]

AutoPano, as the name implies will do pano automatically from many photos, ie a whole folder of photos. I actually choose to designate the photos to use, but it will look at a complete folder of photos and I believe allow you to choose 'which' pano to further process.

A lazy man's tool it is !!

For the super fabulous pano's (ie to make $$ from), I think I would still do it manually or keep them in layers to allow more precision if needed.


Good Luck!