Panoramafactory: the ghost software

In the Panoramafactory 3.3 panorama appear several ghosts, which are suppressed by PhotoStitch 3.1 and PixAround. The shadowy ghosts ruin the panorama.

Markus place in the twilight

Each summer are many tourists in Venice. It's not possible to photgraph a deserted Markus place. It's also not possible to order some hundred tourists stand still. You have to photograph what is there and the software has to make the best out of it.

2 reasons for ghosts

The exposure time for the panorama photos had been 0.4 seconds. In this time, a sedate walker moves 40 to 60 cm. The whole walker? No! It's possible that the left or right feet remains most of the time on the ground while only the rest of the body moves. That's unsharp by movment. Against this is nothing to do. This are the sharp shoes with the foggy body above.

An other reasons are overlap areas between the single photos of the panorama. To make it for the software possible to stitch the photos together, there have to be overlap areas. So it can happen that a tourist is on photo 1 but not on photo 2 or reverse.

A good panorama software has to deal with this problem. As well as PixAround and PhotoStitch deal with this problem where a person is only one of two photos. Panoramafactory failed at this problem.

Panoramafactory 3.3 result in original resulutuion (1967 KB)