Links

digitalkamera.de - das Online-Magazin zur Digitalfotografie.

Publishes a "Workshop Digitale Panoramafotografie" with practical advice, product descriptions, links, and a gallery.
Many software reviews on panoramic stitchers. In German language.

PanoGuide - a website exclusively about panoramic imaging, by James Rigg.

Good "How-To"-articles, a gallery, and a large forum.

Panoramic Network - network for the worldwide panoramic community.

Very comprehensive, a little bit hard to navigate. Some kind of Panoramic Yellow Pages. Business related information, information exchange. Lots of useful links.

Short Courses.com - online courses about digital photography, by Dennis P.Curtin.

There's an excellent one about panoramic photography.

360° Panoramafotografie - Panorama productions by the photographer Falk Eisleben.

Illustrated books and calendars with excellent city panoramas. In German language.

panoramas.dk - a very comprehensive site about VR photography, by Hans Nyberg.

Hires panoramas, international photographers, links, tutorials.

StadtPanoramen - a large gallery with panoramas from numerous German cities, by Helmut Kölbach.

Lots of panoramas in different resolutions, links to other city panorama galleries (wordwide). In German language.

From Paris - panoramas and other photos from Paris, by Eric Rougier.

Excellent panoramas in different resolutions. Virtual tours around the Eiffel tower, Notre Dame etc.
Technical page, postcards, ...

Lausitz-Bild - High-quality panoramas and other pictures from the Lausitz region and other places, by Jörg Friebe.

Nice layout, easy navigation, made by a professional photographer.
The images are offered for sale. The site claims to be a pre-release; but you would hardly notice it. In German language.

Berlin Panorama - a nice panorama gallery from my town, by Brad.

Kreuzberg-centered.

Deutsches Museum München - A large renowned museum with a nice internet multimedia presentation.

PanPhoto - Practical experience from 2 professional photographers, by Nils Heiliger and Carsten Plückhahn.

Galleries, tutorials, tips & tricks for panorama photographers, history of panoramas, and a forum. In German language.

The World Wide Panorama - a non-commercial VR-photography project.

Featuring panoramas from hundreds of photographers all over the world.

The Library Of Congress - Panoramic Photographs

Historical panoramic images from America.

Photography Portal - Links for photographers, by Frank Götze.
In German language.

LetsGoDigital - Online magazine about digital imaging, in 5 languages.

News, cameras, an image gallery, forum discussions; focussed on cameras.

Panorama Tools - basic tools for editing and viewing panoramic pictures, by Prof. Helmut Dersch.

There is a well-enineered Java viewer. Some tools are real pioneer work, some are experimental. Many other developers' work is based on these tools. Non-commercial.

Hugin - freeware, based on the Panorama Tools, by Pablo d'Angelo et al.

It's beeing improved steadily.

PTGui - an interactive user interface for the Panorama Tools, by New House Internet Services B. V.

A hight-quality, very versatile program with lots of options. It's able to stich multi-row and full-spherical panoramas. Starting with v.5.0, PtGui provides an automated mode for creating matching control points which can be combined with manual processing. As an alternative to Panorama Tools, native PTGui tools can be used, some of which are better or faster.

PT Assembler - another Panorama Tools frontend, by TawbaWare.

Can be run in automatic mode.
There are some similarities in all Panorama Tools frontends.

AutoStitch - stitching software from a UBC research project, by Matthew Brown.

An approach to stitch panoramas completely automatically. The machine behind it ("SIFT" algorithm) does automation very well. Unfortunately, there is no real user interface or documentation - it's a demo application.

Autopano - Automatic matching and stitching of images, by Kolor.

Autopano uses the highly efficient SIFT algorithm (see above).
Autopano comes as a free command line tool which can be plugged into PTGui, PtAssembler and Hugin, and as Autopano Pro, a shareware program with an easy, well-designed user interface. The quality of the resulting images varies a lot, depending much on the quality of the source images. Control points can't be edited manually.

Panorama Studio - stitcher for single-row panoramas, by Tobias Hüllmandel.

Good user interface, providing good results. Some time-consuming calculations occur while editing.

PhotoVista Panorama - a simple stitching program, by iseemedia.

Starting with good source images, good results can be achieved without many possibilities to interfere.

The Panorama Factory - a stitcher by Smoky City Design.

Wizard-based software, good results.

PanoWeaver - professional stitching software, by EasyPano.

PanaVue Image Assembler - stitching software, by PanaVue.

i.Vista - a simple stitcher, by illisis.

Panorama Maker - a simple stitching program, by ArcSoft.

An easy, fancy-looking program. It's ok if you don't expect high quality.

PhotoFit - stitching software, by Tekmate.

Quite ambitious in automatically fitting the pieces, but with a strange user interface, producing poor results.

Quicktime - multimedia authoring software, by Apple Computers.

In addition to panoramas, Quicktime supports numerous video and audio formats. There are a lot of authoring software products for Quicktime; most of them run on Apple computers.

LiveStage - authoring software for Quicktime, by Totally Hip.

For Apple computers.

RealViz Stitcher - professional software, by RealViz S. A.

Authoring software for Quicktime and Shockwave formats, running on Apple and Windows computers. Quite expensive.

share-it! - services for selling software and shareware on the internet - wordwide.

Cares about the ordering procedure of the panorado software.

Association of Shareware Authors.

Offering a large range of high quality shareware products.
Our author is a member.

PhotoLinks - a large photographic resources portal.

Not only about software, and not only about panoramas.

Windows-Software.de - Windows software downloads.

123 Free Download - freeware and shareware and demos including games, internet tools, system tools, and utilities.

IT Shareware - a shareware and freeware collection with reviews and free downloads.

topshareware - freeware and shareware downloads.

FilesWeb - freeware and shareware directory.

Aptrio - Download Store.

Soft14.com - Freeware & Shareware Downloads.

5star shareware - Freeware & Shareware Downloads.

No Software Patents - about the impacts of software patents.

Software patents are 20-year monopolies on trivial ideas held by a few big companies. We're better off without it!

--- Strasbourg, 6 July 2005 -- The European Parliament today decided by a large majority to reject the directive "on the patentability of computer implemented inventions", also known as the software patent directive. ---