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Did anyone try Capture One 22 panos with ultra wide lenses?

Fabrizio Giudici (stoppingdown)
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Hello.

I'm reading the documentation about the new stitching feature and I see that it is recommended to use photos taken with 35mm focal or longer. Now, most of my panos are taken with wide or ultra-wide lenses (up to 10mm). Lightroom stitched them fine. I'd like to understand how Capture One 22 will deal with them. If it does them good, it would make sense for me to upgrade soon, otherwise I can wait (and I'd have to search for another specialised tool for stitching).

(Yes I know that I could try the trial, but I don't want to risk to mess with licensing - even though I could try with another laptop)

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    Hi there

    I can't speak for ultra wides, the widest lens I have that has a lens profile in C1 is a 21mm Loxia on a Sony A7RIV. The availability of a profile in C1 seems to be a prerequisite to get usable results, at least in my short, one day experience. Unlike actual pano applications like PTGui or Autopano Giga, C1 doesn't seem to properly analyze the geometry of the images and correct for more complex distortions like barrel, pincussion and the likes, but rather relies on existing profiles. For instance if I stich a panorama with the moderately wide loxia 21mm without applying any lens correction prior to the stich the resulting panorama will have loads of ghosting errors in the transition zones between the images. If on the other hand I do apply the Loxia profile with both distortion and light falloff set to 100 the resulting panorama looks fine. Also if I use a lens like a Samyang 12mm fisheye that doesn't exist in C1, it'll still do a stich, but the resulting pano is completely useless. In fairness Lightroom doesn't manage to do a stich with the Samyang files either since the lens doesn't transmit any exif data, but a profile for it exists in LR and if you apply it manually it'll do a decent enough job.

    So my guess is that if the profile of your lens is available in C1's lens correction panel, you might stand a chance to get some usable results, nothing like what you would get from something like Autopano, which renders an absolutely flawless panorama with the Samyang files in less than two minutes, but usable nonetheless.

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  • Fabrizio Giudici (stoppingdown)
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    Thank you Ruppert. Your contribution is extremely valuable to me, as I was precisely wondering about the impact of lens profiles.

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