360x180° Panorama Tutorial - Pt.3: Stitching in PTGui (1)

Part 3.

After shooting and developing the images, we will now stitch them together into the final 360x180° fully spherical panorama.

Thanks for your interest and stay tuned!

Florian

PS: For those who need it, I also went through the trouble of adding subtitles to the videos... Click on the [CC] icon to enable them.

[justinwaldman]

Brilliant, no-nonsense How-To tutorial. Thank you Florian.

[eddielai]

Thank you for your insightful and careful explanations! Very helpful and just what I needed!

[sacbemedranocamacho]

Man, these are by far the best °360 tutorials. Straight instructions and just enough jokes, thanks for supporting the community with these!

[OptGear]

I used to shoot panos with such a kit lens on an APS-C. I finally build a robot ( not the lego one from my channel, that's just a fun project, no nodal point set option! ) to do it. Automation allows for faster runtimes and makes HDR much more feasible.

[wildkatoz]

Thanks for the tutorial, excellent work, I will certainly give this a trial, I tried my first panorama in the early 70's, using a 50mm lens in my room at home, then, did the rest of the processing in the darkroom, eventually taping all the B&W prints together in a circle! LOL! The next was courtesy of Canon's stitch software with my first digital camera. We certainly have it easier now, don't we? Cheers

[kissouraces]

great tutorials, you have given me a great start!

[RC-Heli]

Love your video's Florian! How do you back up all your
Data? Do you compress images to back them up and save space or backup originals?

[BebopDesigner]

Brilliant tutorials! Thanks for sharing so much. With an 8mm lens, how many shots should I take?

[kepler]

Great tutorials. In this tutorial you put in you're camera/lens combination. Must these be a recognised "pair" for the software to work, or can a "cheaper/ add on fisheye work. Love the 360 panaramas but dont want to go to the expense of a nikon fisheye just yet. Great website by the way.

[FlorianKnorn]

Any combination works of course, and as you saw in part one, I used the Peleng fisheye, which is probably your cheapest option around . . .

[Chasela]

This are wonderful. If using a 15mm fisheye, how many pictures are usually needed?

[FlorianKnorn]

You can use PTGui's "Export to Web" function for a no-frills viewer, or you get a KRPano License, or Pano2VR, or Flashificator, or . . .

[FlorianKnorn]

@markomnen Thanks for your kind words. There's a fundamental difference between capturing and displaying a panorama. The "look" you refer to is just a question of the zoom setting ("focal length") used at the time of *displaying* the panorama. The moment you are talking about shows the panorama with a very wide angle setting. Zoom in (in the viewer) and it'll look what you mean by more "realistic". Note that the way your (360x180) panorama looks does not depend on the lens used to *capture* it!

[FlorianKnorn]

@Chasela511 Provided you have a full frame sensor, 6 around the horizontal (in portrait orientation of course), one up, one down. On a crop camera, much more than that.

[Chasela]

@elfloz Thanks for such a quick reply! These tutorials are amazing. I hope you make some more for other things!

[sogatt]

Good tutorial but it's hard to make those panoramas. I use a Nikon D300 together with a Sigma 10-20, how many pictures do you think I need and how make a proper panorama picture with this lens? Should I do as you did in the video but take several pictures of the ground and sky instead of one single picture?

[FlorianKnorn]

@sogatt You'll need a good few more images, and definitely a panoramic tripod head. You'd be looking at two rows of 6 or 8 images each, shooting 30 degrees below and above the horizon. Then one or two images for the zenith, and possibly a few for tripod removal.

[KarthiKeyanMapmaker]

Hi @Florian Knorn this is Karthikeyan, I have a doubt? I am using Nikon DSLR Camera model: D3400 which Fisheye Lens, Tripod Panoramic Head and along with PTGuie Software. I am waiting for your valuable Replay!.

[gaboaaa]

can i shoot this kind of pictures with a "normal" 18-55 Kit lens?
If yes, how many pictures do i have to shoot? And in what direction?

Greetings

[alexanderselkirk]

hi there, great tutorial, i did it and it worked perfect but i have a question: what if I want to load that image onto my website???