[ptx] aligning old and new photos with hugin

[Ian Wood]

On 26 Jun 2005, at 12:00, ptx-request at email-lists.org wrote:

> Bruno Postle wrote:
>
>> I found a book of old and new photos of Sheffield taken from (not
>> quite) the same location.
>>
>> They were really badly aligned, so I thought I'd see if I could do
>> any better with hugin:
>>
>>  http://bugbear.blackfish.org.uk/~bruno/photos/ranmoor/
>>
>> (uses javascript mouseover trickery)
>>
>> Next I need to get hold of some higher resolution originals and take
>> photos myself to try and get a better alignment.
>>
>> This technique has lots of possibilities, it is even possible to
>> determine the precise lens characteristics of a camera that hasn't
>> taken a photo in a hundred years.
>>
>>
>>
> That is very interesting! Quite a change between old and new photos.
>
> -- 
> Brian
>

Nice! I've used a similar technique to do long-term timelapse stuff 
from hand-held shots taken over several months. Not sure where the 
files are to upload a sample... :-(

Ian