Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] To the pano stitchers...
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:28:08 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-EzRPAvxMhm52eKS64Owpui77uyL0qtqNBhkYZwz-LtJQ@mail.gmail.com>

Not sure image quality is different on a specific lens shot either pano or 
non pano. A good Leica lens will produce a better quality image, pano or 
not, than a Holga lens. 

A longer lens will give you the same characteristics in a pano as in a 
non-pano: image compression, smaller field of view, generally the exact 
characteristics of that lens. 

For WA lenses used on a pano mount turning on a level nodal point, you will 
need much greater overlap per frame or your stitched image will have 
curvature top and bottom. You will either have to crop to the points closest 
to the image center or distort the image. 

Best to get one of these:

http://www.alpa.ch/en/products/cameras/camera-bodies/alpa-12-max.html

Any of the SK lenses 35mm and up will give great flat pano images because 
the lens is stationary and the digital back rises/falls/shifts
:-)

Bob Adler
http://www.rgaphoto.com

On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:32 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> 
wrote:

> Other than the difference in number of frames to cover a particular area,
> are there image quality differences in using a longer lens rather than a
> shorter lens? For example, 25, 35, 50 or 75 on a full frame body, which one
> may be better image quality wise?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> 
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