Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe - The image didn't come through. Did you intend to send this off list? In any case, I'm too lazy to carry a tripod with a proper pan head around when I travel. I know a photographer on the Cape* who, among other things, makes really large panos that he sells to companies as office decoration. Each pane is individually framed with no overlap allowed on the negs. Some of his work is 30 feet wide. He ran through his routine for me once, demonstrating the specially marked pan head with exactly located nodal point and built-in bubble level, etc., etc. The results are spectacular but, ye gods, what a lot of work! I'm going to count on the approximate approach and use PS to glue the frames together. :-) Regards, Dick *Cape Cod, that is. On Dec 04, 2009, at 2:28 PM, philippe.amard wrote: > Pleasure Dick, > I'm on the LUG for this kind of exchange too. > > Rotation: I think the trick is to find the, is it ' nodal point ' of the > lens, then things should be easy - I had made myself a wooden contraption > for experiments, > > 2009-PAW-12-ChronoPanoGraph.jpg > > which I never furthered, but will, euh, when I have decided myself to buy > a real rail/head for panos ... > > > Keep playing and sharing Dick > Thanks again > Philippe > > > Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 20:04, Richard Taylor a ?crit : > >> >> You are welcome Philippe. This kind of discussion is one of the things I >> really like about the LUG. Unfortunately, things don't always work out >> quite this well. Later today I hope to post a shot that I had to torture >> into (near) acceptability. >> >> As I said in an earlier post, I've learned that it's very important to >> rotate the camera about one axis only to get good results easily. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> On Dec 04, 2009, at 12:05 PM, philippe.amard wrote: >> >>> Thank you Richard >>> >>> It is really good - and even XXL ( > 1.6m x 1.2 now I guess) remains >>> fairly sharp. >>> >>> About the wire, I was curious to see if the connection between the shots >>> showed, it does. >>> So may be a couple of minutes to dub it out it in PS would be less of a >>> penalty. >>> >>> Now as to the view; this is exactly what I am dreaming a WA could do; no >>> distortion, and something very close to human sight (span), mine at >>> least. It gives a feeling of being there, in media res, wondering what >>> had happened to the wing of the car, of which way to go; proceed along >>> the path, or ring the bell and ask my way (wink). >>> >>> Thanks for all your efforts, they were well worth the result. >>> >>> Bien cordialement >>> Philippe >>> >>> >>> Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 17:50, Richard Taylor a ?crit : >>> >>>> >>>> I just uploaded a full-size version of this image, the one that >>>> Philippe and I were discussing yesterday. It's 6643 x 3944 pixels at >>>> 72 dpi. >>>> >>>> As a reminder, this is a 3-pane photomerge done in PSCS4 via Lightroom. >>>> It was taken with a Panasonic G-1 and 20mm f1.7 Panasonic pancake lens >>>> at ISO 400 with the camera held vertically for the three shots. The >>>> sky was overcast and the lighting grey and flat. The only adjustments >>>> to the three images prior to merging were minor exposure equalization >>>> and the addition of some fill light to bring up the texture in the >>>> bricks while retaining texture in the sky. There was no sharpening >>>> that I remember (I don't have the original file available at the >>>> moment, so I can't confirm that) though it probably should have had >>>> some. Like the Aldeburgh image I posted recently, this one would >>>> probably look better in B&W, too. >>>> >>>> In any case, here it is. >>>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/England_2009/lg_orford_street_scene.jpg.html >>>> or >>>> http://tinyurl.com/y9ky4o7 >>>> >>>> I look forward to hearing your comments. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Dick >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information