Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/07
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Henning Wulff writes:
> At 2:56 PM -0400 9/6/01, Johnny Deadman wrote:
> >[...]
> >when you see them enlarged, the effect is amazing. There is extraordinary
> >detail in the picture, because so many images are combined together. It
> >looks like large format.
> >[...]
>
> A couple of times I've done 360 panoramas for developers of new
> buildings from construction tower cranes with a Noblex 150 (6x12
> image size on 120 film). Three of these Noblex images make a 360.
> They were then enlarged onto 40" high paper, joined and made into a
> circle (about 6' in diameter) with the image on the inside. The whole
> thing was then suspended, so that the viewer ducked under an edge and
> stood up and viewed the image from the center. When you viewed the
> image exactly from the center, the image 'popped' into reality almost
> like when you get a 3D image lined up. Your eyes/mind then scanned
> and made sense of the curved lines.
Stephen Johnson has some wonderful panoramics that *were* done in
large format (via a Dicomed digital back). He also hangs them on the
inside of a cylinder, about 12 ft across. Beautiful work. If you're
ever down in Pacifica, CA (south of San Francisco on Route 1) you
should stop by his studio and experience them in person. If not,
check out:
http://www.sjphoto.com/digital_pano.html
and the rest of his site at:
http://www.sjphoto.com
g.