Here is the resultant 15s test image, ie the usual boring image of one of the rooms in our house. There are more than 25 alternatives to AutoPano for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Linux and Android. Adjust for look, which in this occasion I didn’t bother doing. AutoPano is described as 'Autopano is the most spectacular breakthrough in automated picture stitching in recent years' and is an app in the Photos & Graphics category.In Lightroom correct the Rokinon 14mm’s barrel distortion: I use PTLens.Trigger the shutter: I prefer to do this remotely and on this occasion did so through a cheap IR remote.Using LV with the histogram showing rotate the Throttle’s adjustment ring until the LV exposure looks OK, ie ETTR from the histogram and the ‘blinkies’.Set the camera to manual mode and set the desired shutter speed (in this experiment I set the shutter to 15 seconds).Focus at 6 feet using the A6000 magnified LV focus screen and focus peaking.Dial in the F/8 aperture on the lens (you will see F/00 in Lightroom as the lens is not electronically coupled to the camera: this missing EXIF data can be added back in later if required).In other words, focus at 6 feet and your image will fall within your acceptable focus criteria from about 3 feet to infinity. First, ensure the Rokinon 14mm is set to the optimum hyperfocal distance, which, for a blur spot of 18 microns, accounting for the sensor and diffraction on the A6000 APS-C, is just under 6 feet at F/8: using TrueDOF-Pro.

Having experimented with the set up today, I have settled on the following workflow (designed for long-exposure photography, ie the ND Throttle is also useful for ensuring a 180 degree shutter speed in videography) for the A6000 with my manual aperture Rokinon 14mm F/2.8:

Autopano giga to capture one