I normally don’t use video on the Z1 as most businesses are using still images at the current time. However, as I am getting more questions about video, I am doing basic testing with video.
With Z1 firmware 2.00.1, I am getting significant stitching aberrations. In the portion below, you can see that the hanging branch is erroneously duplicated.
The bitrate is intentionally set to “low” to reduce the file size. However, I wouldn’t expect the bitrate adjustment to impact the stitching. I don’t recall the video stitching problem in my previous tests.
“At a glance,” actually I thought all three looked very good. Upon closer inspection, the stitching for a still image and stitching on the desktop look fairly close to flawless. Stitching in-camera is excellent, but I found a broken shadow of a telephone wire.
It would be interesting to repeat the test walking with the tripod. Put two markers, like rocks about 30 feet apart, preferably in that alley, and walk down it, from rock to rock. Then, repeat the process with dual-fisheye.
