[Leica] Advise or impressions on panoramic cameras / photography?

[johnbeal2 at gmail.com (John Beal)]

Hi Mark

Thanks for the input.  I would agree that digital is far more convenient
and the results with static subjects are very pleasing.  I am able to get
some nice landscape panos from my iPhone using Microsoft Photosynth.
However, I'm draw to the more dynamic compositions where a snap-n-stitch
may miss the shot.  Not so much "panoramic street" photography but
something closer to candid than pivoting my body or the camera will allow.


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> Nowadays a wide angle digital medium format camera gets called a stitch
> camera. Stitching is how super high  quality wide angle work is done
> nowadays and that's even before they get called Panoramics. Or Panasonics
> depending on your spell checker.
>
> The biggest boom to panoramic photography so far by far is the invention of
> this thing called digital photography. About the second day of  the
> invention of digital school kids starting stitching pans.
> Panoramics are done on a scale seen as never before thanks to digital
> photography and advanced digital algorithm's.
> They are easy cheap and fun.
> Me I'm a huge fan and I do a stitch a day it keeps the doctor away.
> I made two stitches this day, Feb 28th two years ago of the First Baptist
> Church a block from me and some Free News boxes in the snow across the
> street from that.
> This made for some interesting stitching each image comes from a half dozen
> individual exposures. Intentionally unblended for your convenience.
> http://tinyurl.com/7v53adt
> http://tinyurl.com/7xzbrq9
>
> The lens I used was a 28mm 2.8D Nikkor but I do find something closer to 50
> for stitching to be ideal.
>
> --
> Mark R.
>
>
> > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:22:09 -0500
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Advise or impressions on panoramic cameras /
> photography?
> >
> > I agree.  Software for panoramas is fantastic!  A 50mm lens is probably
> > perfect but I've also used anything from 21 to 75.  I like Photoshop's
> > built in software.  It's amazing.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:22 PM, charcot <charcot at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >>  Why don't you do your panoramas in software - PS does a very nice job -
> >> all you need is a 50mm lens and careful panning.  Digital cameras have
> the
> >> software builtin.  As much as I would love to get an Xpan it isn't worth
> >> the cost when I can do it in software
> >>
> >> ernie
> >>
> >> On 2/28/2012 9:44 AM, John Beal wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi LUGgers
> >>>
> >>> Long time lurker that finally has a question for the group...has anyone
> >>> here had any experience with panoramic photography and what advise
> would
> >>> you share?
> >>>
> >>> I think it all started with my Voightlander 15mm on my M6.  I really
> liked
> >>> it's wide perspective but I kept having trouble filling the upper and
> >>> lower
> >>> thirds of the frame with anything interesting.  I tried the digital
> route
> >>> (in camera and software stitching) but they missed the decisive moment
> >>> shots I take for granted with the Leica.  Then I saw some images from
> the
> >>> Widelux and became intrigued.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone here have any experience with a Widelux (or Noblex or
> Horizon)
> >>> or is panoramic photography another mystic art I won't be able to
> explain
> >>> to my wife?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, John
> >>>
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> > Tina Manley, ASMP
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