> The tone adjust has the opposite effect on the very distant

> town on the Ebensee. It actually has more contrast with NO adjust.



My first though was that you are completely wrong  :-)

But i have found a computer that shows your described effect. Really weird - the

only thing i can imagine is, that it is dependend on the graphics card. This

should be submitted as a bug report to the development team.



> It is asif HD View overcompensates like it does with a bright sky and

> then the effect looks solarized.



Same as above. Seemengly needs some fine tuning...



> The remaining mystery is how the HD View team shoots the pre-stitched

> images

> on auto exposure. Still not clear at what moment in the workflow these

> images get normalized.



At the moment, you can coose between 2 software packages that are able to

"normalize" auto exposed images: Hugin and Autopano Pro - both in their latest

beta/alpha versions.



Best regards

Bernhard

OK I'm on a Mac OS 10.4.8 I just downloaded the HDView plugin for

Firefox, there is no apparent way to install this how do I do it?



Dumb question I know.



On Aug 25, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Carel wrote:



>

> HD View also mentions it handles HDR, supposedly though HD Photo.

> At the

> IVRPA conference in Berkeley the ms HD View team was demonstrating

> "the

> making off" a gigapixel image. They mentioned that all pre-stitched

> images

> were shot using automatic exposure (so they all had wildly differing

> exposure levels). The light level is dynamically adjusted when one

> zooms in.

> I did not get the details on the workflow for making these images.

> I wonder

> if HD View does tonal adjustments on the fly or if there is some

> pre-processing necessary.

> When you zoom in on the darker parts of the image at

> http://www.xrez.com/hdview/index.html you can see some brightening. It

> falls apart when you zoom in on parts of the sky though.

>

> Carel

>

Cheers

Robert C. Fisher

VR Photography/Cinematography

Bernhard Vogl-2 wrote:

>

> In respects of displaying HDR images, the Microsoft .wdp indeed looks

> interesting - but to use it with HDView's "Auto Tone Adjust" you need to

> be a little patient: Current beta of HDView only supports LDR images. To

> my knowledge, HDR will be adressed in one of the future beta versions...

> I've summarized some information about it here:

>

http://thepanoramablog.blogspot.com/2007/08/microsoft-hdview-and-dynamic-range.h\

tml

>

> Best regards

> Bernhard

>

>



The "auto tone adjust" works very nicely, except when one points at a bright

sky. I see you put the Gigabot to work. The Klausenpasse with "High Tone

Adjust" looks great! The tone adjust has the opposite effect on the very

distant town on the Ebensee. It actually has more contrast with NO adjust.

It is asif HD View overcompensates like it does with a bright sky and then

the effect looks solarized.



The remaining mystery is how the HD View team shoots the pre-stitched images

on auto exposure. Still not clear at what moment in the workflow these

images get normalized.



Carel



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> Does this mean that microsoft's HD, also refered to as "JPEG XR" is going to

> be the new format? It sure looks better than anything else I have seen at

> these compression ratios.

>

In respects of displaying HDR images, the Microsoft .wdp indeed looks

interesting - but to use it with HDView's "Auto Tone Adjust" you need to

be a little patient: Current beta of HDView only supports LDR images. To

my knowledge, HDR will be adressed in one of the future beta versions...

I've summarized some information about it here:

http://thepanoramablog.blogspot.com/2007/08/microsoft-hdview-and-dynamic-range.h\

tml



Best regards

Bernhard

HD View also mentions it handles HDR, supposedly though HD Photo. At the

IVRPA conference in Berkeley the ms HD View team was demonstrating "the

making off" a gigapixel image. They mentioned that all pre-stitched images

were shot using automatic exposure (so they all had wildly differing

exposure levels). The light level is dynamically adjusted when one zooms in.

I did not get the details on the workflow for making these images. I wonder

if HD View does tonal adjustments on the fly or if there is some

pre-processing necessary.

When you zoom in on the darker parts of the image at

http://www.xrez.com/hdview/index.html   you can see some brightening. It

falls apart when you zoom in on parts of the sky though.



Carel

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As I understand it.. about Last March 2007



Microsoft has or will present this JPEG-XR to the JPEG Standards

Group as a replacement for jpeg file format.  I also understand that

the current version of VISTA already is setup for JPEG-XR file

format and that the major camera companies are embracing this new

file format type replacement.



--- In PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com, Carel <cs@...> wrote:

>

>

> Microsoft's HD View is now available for FireFox I just

discovered. Maybe

> this is old news...

> I also found this:

> http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10491

> Does this mean that microsoft's HD, also refered to as "JPEG XR"

is going to

> be the new format? It sure looks better than anything else I have

seen at

> these compression ratios.

>

> Carel Struycken

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FireFox-tf4328445.html#a12327573

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>

Microsoft's HD View is now available for FireFox I just discovered. Maybe

this is old news...

I also found this:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10491

Does this mean that microsoft's HD, also refered to as "JPEG XR" is going to

be the new format? It sure looks better than anything else I have seen at

these compression ratios.



Carel Struycken

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Microsoft's HD View is now available for FireFox I just discovered. Maybe

this is old news...



Carel Struycken

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