RE: [Leica] Panoramics using Leica.

["Zeissler, Mitch" <mzeissle@gcipoa.gannett.com>]

I echo much of what Dave has posted.

For the initial film-based images taken with the Noctilux, I shot on
tripod, but I kept the same exposure throughout the series.  I did not
level it, as I was not initially thinking of a panorama or digital
manipulation later; I just wanted to record it for memories sake.

I scanned the images on my HP PhotoSmart s20xi with all the auto
features turned off and at highest resolution.  This resulted in
enormous file sizes of 160MB per image; too big for me to work with.  I
re-scanned the images with a more manageable 80MB per image, 320MB for
all four of them together.  

I then used Photoshop to remove all the dust and defects, but made no
cropping, color or contrast adjustments.  I then used Ulead Cool 360 to
stitch the images together.  I will likely use a different stitch
program in the future, as Cool 360 was overwhelmed with the size of the
files.  After stitching, I then made all of the color and contrast
adjustments to the entire panorama in Photoshop.  The final 320MB
uncropped image I saved in TIF form, then made cropped and JPG versions
from the big file.

Frankly, this project was too much for my machine [Pentium Pro 200MHz,
128MB RAM, 4GB HD, 8MB 3D accelerated video card, Win9x, Photoshop 5.0]
and I have since replaced it [Pentium III 1GHz, 512MB RAM, 30GB HD, 32MB
Invidia video card, Win2K, Photoshop 5.5].

/Mitch


- -----Original Message-----
From: Rodgers, David [mailto:david.rodgers@xo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:32 PM
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Panoramics using Leica. 

Thanks much for the reply. It took me a couple of hours from beginning
to
end. I was really tired toward the end, obvious from the poor job I did
at
one stitch. I started late and I ran out of gas, or patience, or
eyesight,
or all the above. Getting the contrasts right was more difficult than
I'd
imagined it would be. Light really changes in a panorama. The negs
looked
very similar, but they scanned differently. I may have scanned at an
auto
setting. Probably should have scanned each at the same fixed setting.
Everything has to match up; the blacks, whites and middle tones or
you'll
notice the seam.  

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