Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My mistake sorry http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/PAW-2009/2009-PAW-12-ChronoPanoGraph.jpg.html view it large - 'green' pano head made of a piece of wine crate grossly drilled through where I had found the nodal point was - stitched in PSE v.2 ... bien ? toi Philippe Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 20:53, Richard Taylor a ?crit : > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >