dakotablues Loc: Detroit, MI

I'd appreciate recommendations on stitching software that can handle my D7100 NEF files? I tried searching here but didn't see anything directly on point.

Thank you much in advance for your help!

DB

Wellhiem Loc: Sunny England.

No doubt some-one will correct me, but I believe you have to convert to Jpeg first.

dakotablues Loc: Detroit, MI

Was hoping that wasn't the case (or convert to TIFF, etc.).

Musket Loc: ArtBallin'

You cant pano-merge NEF files until you convert them to JPG/TIFF/PNG.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I have found Photo Shop to do the best job, have tried several others, Photo Shop has a blending feature after they have been stitched, that makes all one, instead of discrimination shades between the photos. JM2Cents.

breck Loc: Derbyshire UK

Photo Shop does a brilliant job make sure you expose in manual or you get varying exposures and you can see the joins, see my pano of Namibian wild horses all hand held, its easy and great fun

RVDigitalBoy Loc: Clermont, Florida

I use the The Photomerge Panorama option in PS Elements 11. It works well with NEF, TIFF and JPEG files.

dakotablues Loc: Detroit, MI

Pefect - seems I'd be better off working straight from NEF files I'd think.

Thank you for the help.

DB

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

I THINK PTGui will do raw files including NEF's but check their site first.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

A free yet very powerful and accurate software is from Microsoft: ICE. It uses RAW format NEF CR#, if you have the CODECS installed.

It saves in many formats that can then be edited if necessary.

I am currently uploading one (re)made exclusively with MS Products.
http://www.rongnongno.info/panorama/Fall/
You will need to install the MS HDView, painless process
Wait until 1030 before clicking on the link, 2/3 of upload is done 1.1GB

Data
Handheld
Multi rows
344 JPG pictures
Multiple shots for close range subjects
Camera Nikon300

darkmanCANADA Loc: Calgary, AB Canada

^^^ x2 on the above

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/

http://www.nikonimglib.com/nefcodec/

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Photoshop and PSE can do it to NEF files.

wlgoode Loc: Globe, AZ

You might try Hugin Panorama Creator to see if it fits your needs. It is Open Source and free, as in no money required.

dar_clicks Loc: Utah

Below is a short example of using three RAW files to merge into a "panorama" view. Software referred to is Adobe Camera RAW and Photoshop CS3.
An example of my output from doing this can be found at
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-145926-1.html#2464134

• All the shots should be the same exposure and white balance (sometimes I forget), but "Manual" is best to get all the same.

Then, for the computer part...
• If I want to merge RAW files instead of using the JPEGs, then I open one RAW file from the series in Adobe Camera RAW and make desired adjustments. I don't need to do a SAVE because the sidecar file (.xmp) containing those corrections will now exist w/o SAVE. I now make duplicate sidecar files (.xmp) with names to match the other files to be merged -- that way the corrections for all the RAW files (.NEF) will be the same. The files list for these three were: (Note -- The .NEF and .xmp file extensions are names resulting from my Nikon camera's files and using ACR)
_DAR4601.NEF
_DAR4601.xmp
_DAR4602.NEF
_DAR4602.xmp
_DAR4603.NEF
_DAR4603.xmp
Then in Photoshop I start the Photomerge procedure and browse to select the the three RAW files for merging. Final touch-up and cropping to a rectangle is done in Photoshop to finish the "panorama."

breck Loc: Derbyshire UK

See the separate thread Wild Horses in Namibia for my experience stitching panoramas and two examples, hope they help you