• I was on a shoot yesterday, i shot somewhere near 60 panoramas. I used to leave the camera in my panohead to shoot the nadir and then take the tripod out in photoshop, but I shot each nadir handheld yesterday hoping that it would cut down my time in post-processing. On 90% of my panoramas there are stitching errors only on the nadir, most are minor, some are major. I just upgraded to autopano giga, and thought that might be the issue, but i tried some of the same panos in autopano pro and got the same exact errors.

    My question is, how do you shoot your nadir? Theres probably something obvious that i'm missing. Thanks!

  • I tried all sorts of methods and must have read every tutorial out there. I was finding that the nadir was soaking up far too much time in my thinking and worrying and post production work. But I hate going the easy way and restricting the view, or putting in a mirror ball or big logo. (I also read that PTGui tutorial a while ago above and tried that way.).

    Now I simply don't shoot a nadir at all. Since I use the Sigma 8mm fisheye, by tilting up by 5-degrees I cover the zenith and have just a tiny circle at the nadir which corresponds to the nadir tripod circle anyway. I process in PTGui, then use the KR droplet to convert to cubic. Now I have a perfect "normal view" nadir which is very easy to patch and clone. Save that, then convert with other KR droplets to whatever you want.

    Now all the nadir agony is over. I don't shoot a nadir, I don't think about nadirs, and the clone job sometimes takes less than a minute.

  • Why don't you just use the krpano make cube tool?

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