[ptx] Hi from China

[Yili Zhao]

Hi Pablo,
  now, I am studying in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China. If you go to Kunming, Yunnan and have some time, I want to meet you and introduce some delicious food and beautiful scenes of Yunnan :)
  See you at Yunnan.

Sincerely
Yili Zhao
 
>Hi!
>
>I just got the chance to catch up with my email before going to Yunnan,
>for the next week.
>
>As for all the improvements for fisheye stitching.. Unfortunately the
>idiot I bought the Peleng from didn't include the M42 -> Canon EOS
>adapter (which he said would be included)... So I'm in China now, with
>an fisheye, but without a possibility to mount it on my 300D.
>Does anyone know a place in Bejing that could have that kind of
>"exotic" stuff? I have been told that "sheyingcheng" might be a good
>place to look, but it wasn't open today.
>
>About the questions on the list:
>
>A selection of active images for optimisation and preview would be a
>good thing I guess. But I think it should be optional, so that beginners
>will not use it by accident. The state of the selection should be
>shown in the status bar, I think.
>
>I'll also think about the zoomable preview. The preview uses the same
>stitching code as nona, but smaller input images (max. 800x800 pixels).
>If a real zoom (up to the 1:1 magnification) should be possible, it might
>be a bit more work to implement efficiently.
>
>The next thing I plan to implement (appart from bug fixes etc.) are
>different distortion correction for each rgb channel (to fix chromatic
>abberations) and automatic vignetting correction. (based on the
>the brightness ratio in the overlap area).
>
>Unfortunately a lot of work is waiting when I return to germany,
>so implementing all this might take a while.
>
>Another thing: I noticed that some translations use very long strings,
>that make the layout look strange. Could the translators please check
>and try to use shorter descriptions for some buttons (For example I
>remember that the images tab in the french translation had a not so
>nice layout, because some buttons on the right side where too big).
>It would be great if this could be fixed before 0.5 is released.
>
>ciao
>  Pablo