Re: 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
>
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