> Why did you use 2 focal lengths to record the image?
At 400mm there are regions where you get nothing but (almost) black sky,
which gives no point of reference for the panorama software to be able
to join the photos. Using 200mm for those areas, and overlapping them
with points of reference from the photos takes at 400mm solves that
problem.
Of course, this means that the areas taken at 200mm (eg, the top left
corner of the image) are interpolated, but as there's no detail in these
areas that's not an issue.
> Why did you require such a large end file size?
That's something you'll need to ask Adobe! Best I can work out .psb
files don't have any form of compression. Saving it at a compressed TIFF
over halved the filesize. Using jpeg wasn't an option as it's above the
maximum resolution that jpeg supports.
Scott
Glen F - 31 Jul 2006 00:58 GMT
>> Why did you require such a large end file size?
>
> That's something you'll need to ask Adobe! Best I can work out
> .psb files don't have any form of compression. Saving it at a
> compressed TIFF over halved the filesize. Using jpeg wasn't an
> option as it's above the maximum resolution that jpeg supports.
Try ECW or Jpeg 2000 - zoomable 'wavelet' compressed formats
designed for web viewing of enormous images. Irfanview can
write both, but the JP2 writer isn't free. Both need browser
plugins to view.