[ptx] 16bit vs. HDR (was:Adobe DNG format SDK)

[JD Smith]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 09:37 +0100, Bruno Postle wrote:

> > The above link to the panotools wiki has what appears to me to be a fairly 
> > conventional 16 bit work flow.  It is only slightly different from what I 
> > use.
> 
> I split the wiki page into two, since it didn't make much sense 
> before:
> 
> http://www.panotools.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=16bit_workflow_with_hugin
> http://www.panotools.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=HDR_workflow_with_hugin
> 
> ...basically the full 32bit floating-point workflow is quite 
> practical, though getting the various tools to play nicely with each 
> other took a while.

Very good stuff.  I do wonder why you recommend using fulla to correct
vignetting and chromatic aberration after pre-aligning and combining
your images into HDR.  Wouldn't it be better to do this as a first step?

Thanks,

JD