crop and de-warp

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Lisa wrote:
"I capture 5 or more exposures at each of 6 positions around, using a
Nikon 5700 with FC-E9 full spherical fisheye. I crop and de-warp
images in Photoshop (using a custom plug-in), then stitch in
Stitcher 4 (now 5), then put back the missing EXIF data and do the
finally assembly in Photosphere."

With which custom plugin do you do the crop and de-warp?

Thanks

Martin

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Martin,

Unfortunately, the plug-in I have is a commercially unavailable beta. It was written to test the viability of using the Nikon FC-E8 and FC-E9 spherical lenses for spherical HDR capture. I obtained it as part of the research I was doing as the Team Leader of the Pixel Corp's 2003 HDR Team.

I do my cropping and dewarping in Photoshop (still using V7)...I keep everything in registration by stacking my exposures for each position on top of each other, each on it's own layer. Then I crop to a square that just hugs the spherical image, de-warp each layer, and save out to a TIF. This gives me the perfectly registered and identically cropped images necessary to use Stitcher.

Lisa

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With which custom plugin do you do the crop and de-warp?

Thanks

Martin