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Hi Ben,
I’ve seen your posts on the Autopanu/Papywizard forums.
I’ve just started working with a SkyWatcher (aka Merlin) head
in the past two weeks, and am struggling with the lack of a decent
manual or Dummy’s Guide to PapyWizard and Panorama creation.
The “manual” seems to consist of 1/2 sentence descriptions of each button
in the GUI, which isn’t really much more than what the label on the button
already tells you. Is there a better manual, using the Queen’s English?
A few days ago I took a 204 frame mosaic panorama covering 383 degrees,
I thought the whole idea of the XML file and the PapyWizard import was to make stitching virtually foolproof?
and I just cannot get APG to stitch the bloody thing
I’m also having trouble getting exposures in bulb mode for astronomy. Last night I set up a mosaic of 1 minute exposures, and ended up with one very over exposed frame of duration ~5680 seconds!!
Any advice and guidance would be muchly appreciated!
Regards,
Andrew Cool
Adelaide
I’ll get in touch via email or I’ll get too verbose here
. I think AutoHotkey may be your quickest option to add a T-mode shutter release with Papywizard. The XML output is very useful for positioning images but you still need to be careful with automatic fine tuning of the image alignment. I ended up bypassing the XML and created a database tool to generate both Papywizard presets and PTGui project files before shooting.
Hello Ben. When I saw your very nice reprojections of fisheye photos on the flickr vedustimo group, I said to myself “here’s someone who could really use Panini-Pro”. That’s my tool for reprojecting wide images in ‘synthetic natural perspective’; basically the Panini (aka vedutismo) projection but adjustable in all sorts of ways to suit the subject. I will be selling it by the end of the year. At present it is in free beta test, and I would like you to be one of the beta testers.
If interested, please go to http://tksharpless.net/paniniv1/, download it, give it a try, and let me know what you think of it.
Hi Tom
This looks very promising indeed.