Re: [OM] (OM) OT image stitching / panoramas

[Chuck Norcutt]

No future insight is required nor any knowledge of the order of 
exposures.  We know the left is brighter than the right and we know the 
aperture is fixed.  It doesn't take much in the way of prognostication 
skills to predict that the shutter speed on the left will be faster than 
on the right.

I accept that you're compressing the dynamic range but I would have 
thought that you not only compressed it but evened it.  But shooting the 
brightest area in auto mode may compress the dynamic range between shots 
but in no way guarantees sufficient compression with a shot and thus no 
guarantee of no blown areas.  I don't have any blown areas in my ETTR 
panos and that's guaranteed.

I'm still hoping you will post shutter speeds so I have a better idea of 
what actually happened.

Chuck Norcutt


On 4/27/2012 12:07 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
>>     I would assume the camera reduced the exposure on the left to try and 
>> keep the brightness the same as on the right.
> Don't know why you would assume that. The camera makes the exposure
> based upon available data. I don't think the technology is quite able to
> anticipate what I'm going to do a few frames in the future :)
>
> Think of it this way. I'm compressing the dynamic range by shooting in
> AP mode. With no blinking blown areas it's actually easier for the
> software to blend the image. The entire image is shot and blended
> similar to a multi-image HDR.
>
> Mike
>
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