Dngallagher wrote:
Using Lightroom to stitch with the built in stitching capability has become very fast and easy finishing off with a DNG file as a completed panoramic, I find it does a very nice job, handling object movement automatically in most cases.
Just rediscovered Autopano Giga recently when trying to stitch a 5-shot pano of a 100 piece orchestra that I shot from the top of a 10 foot ladder. The Lightroom stitch had so many missing arms, violins cut in half, etc that it was unusable. Stitched the same shots in Autopano and only had to slightly adjust one arm. Even better, the perspective was so much better than the Lr stitch - straight walls in the back, far less distortion, etc. I'll still try to stitch in Lr first because most of the time it does ok, but for tough jobs there's no beating Giga.