Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] "Approaching Storm"
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:37:02 -0800
References: <CAJ3Pgh5ELU+o0Y7K5C6Cs2hGmdey3Urxs=-ZG59friBNe_xEQA@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, it works!

Paul, how long does it take to shoot a photo like this? With 9 frames, I'd
imagine you have to take some care into standing still, aligning the
horizontal, thinking about the size of the sweep etc. As I understand it,
you don't use a tripod? Any particular reasons?


On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought this group might like the one I currently have on my home
> page at www.PaulRoark.com .
>
> This shot was, in part, an experiment to see if I could stitch a
> panorama from frames taken with an 18mm ZM on the M9.  My success at
> stitching with very wide lenses has not been that encouraging.
> However, it appears that if a lot of images are taken (9 here to cover
> 180 degrees) and the center of the vertical frame is at the horizon
> (to avoid the perspective "distortion"), stitching in CS5 works fine
> with the ultra-wides.
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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