Neues Panoramabuch von Thomas Bredenfeld

Ein Tipp für wissbegierige Panoramafotografen ist das in Deutsch geschriebene "Praxisbuch digitale Panoramafotografie" von Thomas Bredenfeld.
Das Buch ist sowohl bei Amazon als auch bei Galileo Design ab sofort bestellbar!

Leistungsschau des Bundesheeres am Heldenplatz 2009

Anläßlich des Nationalfeiertags gab es wieder eine Ausstellung des Bundesheeres am Heldenplatz in Wien:


Alouette III Innenansicht bei Heeresleistungsschau am Nationalfeiertag 2009 in Vienna


Alouette III bei Heeresleistungsschau am Nationalfeiertag 2009 in Vienna


Eurofighter Typhoon at national day 2009 in Vienna


Black Hawk at military exhibition on national day 2009 in Vienna

Picnic on Sidney Harbor Bridge

Panorama by Peter Murpy
(click image to open panorama)

I'd like to see such a picnic being organized in Vienna! (What about the Reichsbrücke?)

Gigapixel speedtest revised

A revised version of the Gigapixel Speedtest is now available!

The new version includes project files for PTGui and Autopano with comparable output size and format, so you can directly compare performance of both stitchers.

Please note that PTGui will perform much better in the new version. The main reason for this speedup is, that i have used the "crop" feature available in newer releases of PTGui. This complies with Autopano which will cut unnecessary image parts automatically.

To give you some figures, i have re-rendered the panorama with the new project on my reference system - meanwhile upgraded from Vista 32bit to Windows 7 64 bit:

• old project on old system:
  2h, 38min
• old project on updated system:
  1h, 24min (speed increase 1.88 - just by using 64bit!)
• new project on updated system:
  57 minutes (speed increase 2,77 compared to old numbers!)

Ars Electronica Festival 2009 Panoramas

The panoramas from the 2009 event are online. Click the image above to enter the index.