Hi hogash!
I did get your images to stitch into a QTVR - but it is not perfect - though the errors are very correctable in Photoshop. I believe you have non-parallax point (aka nodal point) errors in your panohead set-up.
This best I can do, an example is here.
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Post Edit note:
Sorry, I just realized my .Mac account is down while Apple is switching over to "Mobile Me".
Might be up again when you read this post.
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Since you say you can't stitch your images at all, what I did should be at least a starting point.
Basic Steps I used:
1) Calibrate your fish eye lens. (Properties dialog)
2) Auto-stitch (2 of the 4 worked - the rest required semi-auto-stitching).
3) Level your pano. You can use Stitcher's "Align Panorama" feature. I prefer to use the "Viewing Camera" tab in the "Properties" dialog, I think it is more accurate. The settings I used (in degrees): x=3, y=2, z=.07 / Viewing Angle = 90.
4) Render your pano (Render dialog) - TIFF spherical with either the "Blending Type" of "SmartBlend" (built-in) or "enblend" (external, requires download of enblend and setting in "Preferences" ). I used enblend v3.0; SmartBlend is much slower on my Mac. If you don't currently have enblend or not a Mac user use SmartBlend.
Bicubic interpolation.
5) Render the pano. After your pano renders using this process it is a single TIFF image. It needs to be turned into a QTVR. You can do this process in Stitcher using the "Load Panorama..." command.
Note: Fish eyes required the blending step (Smart or enblend) which is not available going straight to QTVR from stitched images, hence this "extra" step of TIFF to QTVR.
The manual covers all these steps in full detail.
Message edited by Jim Scott on 07-10-2008 at 02:16:38 PM
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