Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, That shot of yours gives me vertigo just looking at it! Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> wrote: > My P45+ stitched in portrait orientation (18mm shift on each side) with the > 35mm lens gives a rough equivalent of a medium format 17.5mm lens. That > translates into what, about a 12mm rectilinear 35mm equivalent? > > And you want what? > See: > http://www.rgaphoto.com/GT/content/Valley_View_Pano_W_large.html > > This image is from 3 main segments produced by using 3 back shifts with a > portrait oriented P45+ and 35mm lens, for each segment. The 3 back shifts > of > each segment were stitched together from the images of the 35mm lens > shifted > in portrait orientation. This roughly equates to the view of each of the 3 > segments equaling the field of view of a 17.5mm medium format lens/ 12mm > lens on a 35mm format system. 3of these were stitched(swinging the camera > on a panoramic head) to give the image. It was then cropped. The file is > over 2.2GB. > > Give me a place to stand and I will hang this image! > > In all seriousness there are some correctly stated and some overstated > items in this expose. But all in all, medium format for landscapes is at a > really nice place right now... > > Anyone want to buy some Hassy V and Canon equip? :-) > Bob > > Bob Adler > http://www.rgaphoto.com > > On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > > > My pipe dream is that someone, well, Fuji specifically :-) would make a > > > > 18x49mm sensor, and build a digital RF system for it. The sensor size is > > just about the same size as the "full frame" 35mm, so the technology and > > cost is known (remember that full frame Canon and Sony are as "low" as > > $2500). > > > > The result would of course be a cropped digital XPan. The lens should be > > much easier to design - heck, lets make them all F2.8 while we are at it. > > > > Sell the whole system with 3 lens (30, 45 and 90 equivalent) for $10,000 > to > > $12,000, and I bet they will sell at least as many of that as Pentax > 645D. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > > replies in your msgs. ] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >