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Old 19-10-2009, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Lumen Miner View Post
Oh really? 1/3 you say? Why is that? I have been only overlapping maybe 1/10, I was assuming the smaller the better. I shall try 1/3 next time. Thanks mate!
The extra overlap lets the pano software (or your eye if you are doing it by hand) find more alignment points. In scenes like yours that probably isn't that important because you have sharp contrasts and less distortion with the longer focal length.
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