Kodak v570 Panoramic Testing
Yesterday, I took my new Kodak V570 out to test its on camera image stitching. I tried to be fair, but at the same time, I wanted to put this feature in some interesting and difficult scenarios. The first two images were taken on a bridge near my house. I knew that the design of the bridge could pose some interesting problems with all of the angles and parallel lines. Secondly, because I was able to get a view above the street and buildings I had more sunlight, and because it was the afternoon the exposure levels could be quite different from image to image depending on which way I was facing.
The Kodak v570 only allows you to stitch three images together, so to get the most out of this test, I used the ultra-wide lens for all the images. If there are going to be any obvious errors they should occur at the stitch points, where two images are blended together. Feel free to click on the panoramic images for their full-sized (1-2MB) versions.
Test 1 - Taken from right to left. You can see some problems with the last (left most) stitch. There seems to be part of a metal bar sticking down, and if you follow the line and the sky to the left is slightly darker than the sky to the left. Im not exactly sure where the bar came from.
Test 2 - Taken right to left. Again, you can see some problems with the left most stitch, in both the sky and the bridge pattern below. There is another, much less noticeable, error with the parallel lines of the wooden floor.
Test 3 - Taken left to right. Thistest is much more like what Kodak optimized the sofware for, there are some very hard to notice errors, but I won’t point them out. The Kodak can definitely do what it claims and pretty well too.
Overall, I would say that I’m happy with the results. I knew going in to the test the camera would likely fail the first two, but it was interested in seeing how the software would compensate in such a scenario. And honestly I would have really been shocked if the first two images turned out as close to perfect as the third did.
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