http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/ Engadget Comments for Sony's panorama-shooting DSC-HX1 camera handled on video http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/]]>Mar 10th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/
Although it does look pretty cool, wouldn't mind having a camera that did it for me, albeit that even with photomerge I still only do it about once a month. I did one once that photomerge managed to make a 25,000x3,000 image out of, was very impressive.]]>Mar 10th 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Does it all for you, just input the images.
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thanks for the link!


The camera has still some feature that are nice like the 10fps at 9mega pixel and the video recording plus the 20x zoom.
I just think this is a not really a pocket camera. I will get the sony W290 instead.]]>Mar 11th 2009 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Complete 360 degree panoramas, up and down, no limit on size]]>Mar 14th 2009 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/
http://www.infosyncworld.net/... .../sony/sony_cyber-shot_dsc-hx1_s02.jpg

Although I can obviously give a pass to image issues caused by subject movement during the pan, I'm not at all impressed with the stitching of some static objects (see the "Quick AF Live View" text on the Sony sign in the center of the photo). Verdict: Gimmick.

I'll stick with the excellent freeware AutoStitch.

What interests me far more is that it apparently does in-camera HDR processing from six photos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnBp8LjNZZ4

The frame alignment will be far easier than in a panorama, so there is more of a chance that this will be done well.]]>Mar 10th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/
It's good enough for most people that wouldn't stitch panoramas anyway.

I'm still holding my breath to see what CMOS can do for small sensors, after Canon has converted everyone to their religion in the SLR world.]]>Mar 10th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/
It's good enough for most people that wouldn't stitch panoramas anyway.

I'm still holding my breath to see what CMOS can do for small sensors, after Canon has converted everyone to their religion in the SLR world.]]>Mar 10th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/For stitching panoramas on a Mac I use doubletake. http://echoone.com/doubletake/ You drop your image files on the application icon and they are stitched. It's that easy.]]>Mar 10th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Mar 10th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/Nice. Well it's about time they finally got this going in software. Now they just need to up the res a bit and this'll save me a lot of time in post processing.
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