![]() ![]() But back to Joergen's post, just because the OP wasn't terribly helpful doesn't mean there wasn't some amount of truth to his criticisms. You can, with a lot of work, get good results out of it, at least for some projects. I appreciate that the developers have put the time and effort into Hugin to make it as workable of an alternative as it is. I think PTGui user interface is quite similar to Hugin, but I have already seen some users preferring it. They usually prefer, as Jeff and others said, commercial softwares, like PTGui. I also see some effort to change its usability, and recent changes on the interface show it, but I still see difficulties on new users to use it. Don't know if there are windows developers motivated for it. Maybe we should focus a little bit more on windows versions to stabilize it. On Linux I don't remember having crashes or any other problems, but on Windows, which is only an option when the lab can't install Linux, I have already told people to leave their computers and follow the workshop on a friends desktop, cause there were nothing else we could do in the middle of the class. I have done some workshops using both windows and linux. I surely see more hugin crashes on Windows and it surely contributes a lot for hugin being less used, as I see windows as the biggest player in the market share, at least here in Brazil, but have some feeling that worldwide it is also the same. ![]() What I am trying to say is that I surely see reason in those comments and it doesn't mean that I don't see all the merit and effort made by developers, that do this for fun, for free or whatever, as volunteers. And here we are talking about photographers, that many times have very few computer abilities. ![]() ![]() I just like hugin, maybe because I am a big fan of opensource software and as a system analyst I surely have less problems with complex software than a standard user. and frankly the time and frustration are worth the price of the other packages out there, at least for me. I've gotten some nice results out of Hugin, but it's always felt like I'm fighting with the software. Add in random crashes of Hugin itself, and occasional serious bugs (which do generally get fixed, but there are always new ones to take their place), and I have a really difficult time recommending Hugin for anyone who is planning to take a lot of panoramas, or someone who is planning to take a particularly complicated project. Hugin's HDR_Merge output can sometimes produce nice results, but in my experience that happens perhaps 2 out of every 5 times, and the other three border on unusable. CPFind and Nona are both painfully slow, and both Enblend and Enfuse frequently crash for me on multiple computers, at least two of which have 12GB of ram. Hugues comment wasn't terribly constructive, but that doesn't change the reality that Hugin has some significant issues compared to its competitors. I could maybe try harder to get around the quirks hugin is throwing my may, and every time I install a new hugin I really want to believe that this is the one that finally works, it is not the easiest task for users like me. as it stands right now, I have never in my whole pano life managed to get a single panorama out of hugin, and I really tried (please don't bash me as a pano beginner). being confronted with more wx errors, and no way to assign the same lens parameters to all source images (at least not in a obvious way), I am going to give up today, since no control points could be found, and maybe try again tomorrow. then I load a bunch of small fisheye tiffs (no exif data), load them, and get asked to enter exif data for each of the 18 tiffs, one by one (my mind hovers again next to the "should I just delete it again and come back in 6 months?"). I finally found a mac 2014.0rc2 version, installed it, launched it, and get confronted with wxwidget error messages. I do this process about every 6-9 months, and in the past it was always the same result: i couldn't use it (and this could be very much a PEBKAC). it takes some serious looking around to find a recent binary. The beginning hurdle for me as an end user is finding a downloadable binary, since is the official homepage, but not maintained since last year. ![]()
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