Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken's images are good examples of what happens when you pan..... The nearby mountain is about square to the camera orientation. You can see the panning "distortion" in the way the mountain goes higher towards the center of the frame and then back down again on the other side.... If you look at Circuit shots ( panorama from a swinging lens) of the fronts of buildings, they actually appear to curve in front of you..... Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net Perhaps these images will help. Here is a pan image made with a 25mm Zeiss Distagon lens on a Contax 35mm body, Ektachrome VS. It was mounted vertically on a Kiwi pan head, adjusted so the lens rotated around its nodal point. http://www.kencarney.com/index.htm Here is am image taken from the same spot with the same lens, but in landscape position and just a single frame. http://www.kencarney.com/Skies/00320091121.html So my guess is no, the 80mm stitched image will not have the same perspective as the 40mm, i.e., it will not have the "wide angle" look I like. I don't take many panoramas (those are really big prints), but I have also used landscape orientation on a regular leveling tripod head and stitched with Photoshop merge function, which seems to work fine. Personally I would stick with the 40mm and perhaps a panorama made with that lens. Hope this is responsive.