[Leica] I'm Back - Panos from Europe

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Howard, I'm pleased you made it home in one piece. Naturally I'm envious of
your trip. These look delicious. I need to look at everything more closely
very soon.
Two Photoshop geeky items for you. Adobe Camera Raw allows synchronised
spotting if you have a series that share the same sensor spot.
Secondly, I have just swapped to CS4 (and I am very impressed so far). I
also attended an on-line seminar (like a video conference thingie) with
Adobe on it and one of the things that they demonstrated was some new super
powers in image stitching. Its called photomerge and has some amazing
smarts. Providing you have a modern video card you can also zoom and scroll
around in giant images extremely smoothly. Being one of our acknowledged
pano-kings, you may like to check that CS4 out. 


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Howard Cummer
Sent: Sunday, 26 October 2008 14:04
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] I'm Back - Panos from Europe

Hi Luggers,
Last night I got to sleep in my own Hong Kong bed again after 162 days.
Filling the time in retirement sometimes feels like hard work!
After Photokina wife Esther and I traveled to Italy and France. I took along
my Novoflex pano equipment but lost the bushing that sizes the bubble level
platin from 1/2 to 3/8 so couldn't use the damn thing on the tripod that I
had brought. I just hauled all that heavy weight around from one place to
another. I used my M8 and Nikon D700 as the mood struck me - the M8 for
nights and interiors and the Nikon for just about everything else. Its
better high ISO performance compensated for the slower lenses in most cases.
Next time (if there is a next time given what is happening to my retirement
portfolio!) I will take only one system - likely the Nikon as it is the most
versatile. From what I saw at Photokina I may add some Zeiss lenses to the
Nikon kit if and when they are available in HK.
I have posted a few panos in a new folder in the LUG gallery. Please have a
look.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Photos+from+Europe/

http://tinyurl.com/5ucctl

These were taken mostly with the M8 and the 24 Elmarit in vertical format
and then stitched together in CS2. One is taken with the Canon
G9 - and a couple with the Nikon D700 and the 50 f1.4. One problem with the
M8, not experienced with the D700, was dust spots on the sensor which showed
up when I stopped down to increase depth of field. That required quite a bit
of spotting in Photoshop not required with the Nikon photos due to the 700's
auto cleaning feature. I have one persistent spot on the M8 sensor which is
going to require wet cleaning sometime this week.
Enjoy,
Cheers
Howard

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