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Since I can check "Place unmapped images based on metadata" in the program, all images are immediately arranged correctly. I often had the problem in the past that single images of water surfaces were not mapped correctly because of the similarity of the textures.
#SKY PANPRAMA 360 PTGUI PRO#
Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what PanoramaStudio Pro 3 reads from the EXIF data. I'm not involved with the author and the program! PanoramaStudio Pro 3.6 is a commercial program (not too expensive!), but it's the one I've used to get the best results so far - without complicated post-processing and control point shifts. I don't know if pitch and yaw data is read out, but the general quality of the stitching, which was already good before, has become better once again with this feature. Since I can check "Place unmapped images based on metadata" in the program, all images are immediately arranged correctly.
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Something I maybe need to bring up with the author of PTGUI! Your post perked my ears up about the Panorama Studio Pro 3 and it's ability to map the Pano from EXIF data, is it somehow capturing Pitch and Yaw data from the drone written to the RAW data? I never even realized those were recorded in the EXIF data.
#SKY PANPRAMA 360 PTGUI MANUAL#
I also wonder what the delay was between the Pano by the drone and the manual zenith shots? Still very ambitious pano with a drone given the detail being all around the drone. I had another look and you are right about those stitching errors I wonder how Fred captured the zenith shots as they are actually pretty uncharacteristic stitching errors for PTGUI but potentially cleaned up with masking and seam placement adjustment or just manual control points. This is also especially helpful with very uniform textures (such as sea surface). Have you ever tried to do the stitching rather with PanoramaStudio Pro 3 than with PTGui? Because this program is able to read the EXIF data of the single shots and thus align the images in the exact position. Very impressive! Is it really the case that with a gimbal position of 60° the whole zenith is completely covered? Then manual shooting would be at least an alternative.īut looking closely (I calculated the pano in Pano2VR to the sphere) you can see some stitching errors with the branches near the zenith. I have also downloaded the pano from Fred. The latest enhancements to PTGUI really make this type of shot a lot easier to stitch well. Was PTGUI happy including the manual shots in the set? I can't imagine the drone moving too much so shoudn't be a problem. It's also really pleasing to see that the lens on the Mini 3 is stitching well in PTGUI (What I use too) Using the manual 60 degrees upward shots has also enabled you to take an image where there is still detail and information in that upper third of the frame, something with the Mini 1 that would have been impossible (unless your drone was low and you could manually hold the drone and take upward images). I use the Mini 1 heavily for that purpose but the quality you are achieving from the Mini 3 looks just awesome.
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Thanks so much for posting that 360 pano. That would be a shame not to use that feature for 360's. I hope DJI Fly will eventually add 60° up pictures. Small enough to be filled with Photoshop, but could be a problem in some situations. Shooting all manually, or shooting automatic Sphere and then manually 8 extra 60° up pictures, gets close to 360, but there's a tiny hole up (nadir). So 360 is not 360, up is filled with blurred pixels. At the moment, DJI Fly does not shoot Sphere 60° up.