Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 9/6/01 12:54 PM, Bill Harting at wharting@adelphia.net wrote: > John, I love those panoramas -- all mine have been multiple frame paste-ups, > which have their own peculiar charm, but I wonder what if anything can be > done to minimize the distortion? I'm thinking of a three-frame view i > remember of Fenway Park -- three 8x10 transparencies in which the lines > seem to be straighter and the view more like looking out windows, as opposed > to the wonderful liquid views you are producing. it is a straight choice really between the rectilinear view that you use and which preserves straight lines but distorts the edges of the frame, or the cylindrical projection which mine are built up from which turns straight lines into curves but preserves linear proportions. The amazing thing about the eye is that it does both of these simultaneously. Photographically this is impossible. The curvy version is another interpretation of reality. It takes a while to get used to 'reading' these but they start to like quite normal after a while. > > How many frames compose that underpass original? It is ten but a lot of duplication. Maybe seven frames are essential. > What would stitching 50mm > frames look like? very very long and thin like a thin full-width horizontal slice of the 17mm image > > (And I'm still waiting to see the vert-a-ramas) okay already! - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com