Toyota Landcruiser Club of WA
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To the club members,
we have just completed a trip on the
Holland Track and have witnessed first hand the hard work your club has put into marking the track.
Thankyou for your efforts
Kind Regards
Steve & Alison Kruger
walkabout.tekcities.com
Reply By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 13:17
Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 13:17
Hi Alison , Hi Steve ,
I was looking at your great site and I noticed your comment about "photo stitching " and your use of a Canon A620 .
I could not see the Canon A620 on the Canon website nor any mention of " photo stitching ".
Is it an SLR ? Do you know if any of the Canon SLRs have this feature ? Or is it part of the Canon software you use when you have downloaded the shots
It would be a great tool to have . At present I have a 300D and am quite happy with it .
Enjoy your trip ,
Willie .
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Follow Up By: Shawsie (Bris) - Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 16:11
Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 16:11
Hi Willie,
Don't know much about the Camera, but I've been using a FREE program called Autostitch www.autostitch.net/ for panoramas and it works GREAT. Just take your pics, select them and hey-presto :o)
Andrew
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 18:04
Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 18:04
Andrew ,
Thanks for that - I will check it out now .
Willie .
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 18:12
Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 18:12
Andrew ,
That is really neat . Did you buy the software or did you download the free demo ? I wonder how much it costs .
Thanks ,
Willie .
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Follow Up By: Member - Warren R- Karratha WA - Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 19:10
Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 19:10
G'day. You generally get photostitch with the Canon software. It's quick, easy to use and gives good results.
Cheers
Waz
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Follow Up By: Member - Ian H (NSW) - Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 22:09
Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 22:09
Canon IXUS 65 has picture stitch program on CD with camera but you have to take the pictures to be stitch in stich mode first.
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Follow Up By: joc45 - Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 22:29
Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 at 22:29
Ian, yes, I had an Ixus till it died earlier this year, and the photostitch was brilliant. Have since used the software with my Fuji, but not as good results. I think that the Canon in stitch mode embeds some data, such as the focal length of the lens, etc to get the best results. Pity, I miss the feature, as it works almost seamlessly
Gerry
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Follow Up By: Shawsie (Bris) - Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:05
Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:05
Hi Willie, I downloaded the demo version which has full features as far as I can see - I've had GREAT results and it's SO easy to use. If you set the :quality to 100% and the :scale to 100% it take a LOT LONGER to process, but the results are worth it. I recently took a dozen images of the Byron Bay Valley from the
lookout and I just 'picked' the images in the folder and hey-presto!
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 17:02
Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 17:02
Thanks for
the tip Shawsie. I tried autostitch last night. I hadn't tried stitching before, because my shots at panorama point tend to be a bit haphazard. It was AMAZING. The programme took a selection of pictures which didn't line up, didn't meet, or overlapped and created perfectly matched pictures. I just have to get rid of a few zig zaggy black lines on the outside edges. I spent most of last night having fun creating the panoramas. I can believe how good it is.
Motherhen
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Follow Up By: Shawsie (Bris) - Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 17:47
Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 17:47
Motherhen, another tip is to make sure your images overlap each other more than enough. You end up with more photos, but who cares, the program does the rest anyway - a great piece of software for nicks :o)
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 22:39
Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 22:39
With apologies to Steve and Alison for hijacking their thread, i have been playing with the autostitch again today. Unfortunately when i took vistas, i was not thinking of the possibility of stitching, so there are gaps, which autostitch can't include. I'm amazed at what the programme can do, but i'm a long way from getting photos of the the quality that Steve and Alison have been sharing with us.
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