Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Is it really faster than using a 4x5? :-) On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > Paul, it's beautiful, but I don't have the patience for that much > post-processing. I just shoot for my own enjoyment, so I can choose my > poison. :-) > > One of my frequent subjects is a skydiver at low altitude, and at > touchdown. I have found that a Pentax Takumar 135/3.5, mounted on an > Olympus 4/3 camera, works great for this purpose. Autofocus lenses, with > no hard infinity stop, are the worst. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 3/21/2016 6:10 PM, Paul Roark wrote: > >> Jim Nichols wrote: >> >> ?> Nice DoF, in spite of Paul's misgivings. >> >> And it only took 19 frames! >> >> Helicon and PS stacking software choke on wind or camera movement. So, in >> landscape work there is almost always going to be a fair amount of hand >> work and glitches that those who look hard with find. Where there is no >> movement (camera or scene), however, Helicon is just amazing. On this >> one, >> since it was hand held, I used PS, first aligning the images as layers and >> then doing auto stacking. This only worked for the center images. Then I >> had to take the auto-stacked file and put it as a layer over an aligned >> set >> of the other layers to fill in the gaps and errors -- one at a time, >> manually. Finally I added the front and back parts of the image, in part, >> manually. >> >> Paul >> www.PaulRoark.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // On Facebook: http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // On Instagram: https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto