Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Nemeth <azn@nemeng.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 11:37 AM Subject: [Leica] Another ultra-wide angle shot > >For the 'wider is better' crowd, here is another small >super-wide I shot during the public open day at the main >Olympic Stadium in Sydney a couple of weeks ago: > ><http://www.nemeng.com/photo/pano_astad.jpg> (JPEG 80KB) > >Details: > >o The image covers 360-degrees horizontally and 120-deg > vertically. Because of the extreme feild of view, > the guy with the camera and the girl with the water > were v. close! 360 degrees is a complete circle .......was the camera lens able to see behind itself? jh > >o Shot hand-held using a R6.2, 16mm fisheye-elmarit, > PJ100 C41 film. Camera held at chest height and a > set of spirit levels in the hotshoe were used to > keep roll & pitch level. > >o It is actually a composite of 8 separate images I > took while turning around in one spot. These imgs > were then blended together using Photoshop. > >o The RHS part of the shot is straight into the cloudy sun - > here is where the Leitz optics show how good they are! Hardly > any flaring and lots of shadown detail. Not bad for a 25 > year old lens design. > >Regds, > >Andrew Nemeth > >VR MEDIA SOUND PHOTO JAVA >nemeng Warrimoo Australia >www.nemeng.com >