Just another enfuse droplet

Hello,

I finally had the idea how to automatically group images in bracketed
series from a panorama. It turned out to be quite easy, but it's
limited of course: The images of one pano must be together in a
folder, no other images should be there. The images must be named in
the order most cameras do: with ascending numbers. Each series must
consist of consecutive images. I suppose this is how most peole shoot
bracketed series anyway - shoot one series, pan on, shoot next series
and so on.

The droplet reads the folder and sorts images by name. Then reads the
EV (exposure value computed from exposure time, f-stop and ISO) from
the first image with the help of EXIFTool.

It then starts to enfuse images until it finds an image with the same
EV as the first one. This image is considered the first one of the
next series and so on until all images are processed. It doesn't
matter whether you do classical brackets (f.e. normal, under, over)
or a linear series (f.e. -2EV, -1EV, 0EV, +1EV, +2EV), only the first
image of each series must be exposed the same.

If you think this could be of any help, please download the droplets
from http://www.erik-krause.de/enfuse_droplets.zip and EXIFTool
windows executable from http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ 
and unpack all files in the folder where enfuse.exe resides[1].
Rename exiftool(-k).exe to exiftool.exe and create shortcuts as
described in the readme.txt file from the droplets zip.

The batch files won't work directly, shortcuts are mandatory. Then
drop a folder that meets above conditions on the shortcut that points
to enfuse_auto_droplet.bat (best named "Enfuse Auto")

Please report any observations, especially whether it works on
Vista...

[1] If you don't have enfuse already or want the most recent version,
go to http://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse and follow the link in the
"state of development" section.

best regards
--
Erik Krause
Offenburger Str. 33
79108 Freiburg