Enfuse zenith

[cri]

Today I tried to stitch 48 images with hugin (16 per exposure) to make
an equirectangular 360x180 panorama. I discovered that I always get a
vortex with strange fading in the zenith. Later, I read the hugin
readme and found out that this is a known issue. So I'm here to ask
how you handle this problem.
(to me the only solution seems to be enfusing the single bracketed
images before importing them in hugin for later stitching using only
enblend).

Regards
Cristian

[RueiKe]

Hi Cristian,

I have been having the same problem for blended, exposure fused
panos. The problem for me is more of issue for the Nadir. Here is an
example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rueike/3658984267/

From my observations, it looks like the multiple exposures for the
Nadir are being ignored and only one image is being used to make the
final pano. I have resorted to using only the nominal shot for the
Nadir and trying to blend in post processing, but it still looks bad.
The documentation for enblend/enfuse mentions this as a limitation.

I have also tried enfusing the Nadir before stitching in hugin, but I
found mixing TIFFs from CaptureNX with TIFFs from enfuse creates some
problems. Seems like there are compatibility issues.

I have seen so many nice exposure enfused and HDR 360x180 panos out
there that there must be a work around.

Does anyone have a good work flow to avoid this issue?

Regards,
Rick