[Leica] Capitol Pictures - How to do Panos

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)]

Thanks Sanjay,
As you know I like to make horizontal panos - three or four shots  
stitched together - to make BIG prints.
When I get my Leica 19mm Elmarit R adapted to my Nikon D700 in the  
next few days I am going to experiment
on CS4 with complete panos.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Cheers
Howard


> From: Sanjay Nasta <sanjay@microassist.net>
> Subject: [Leica] RE: Capitol Pictures
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>, <lug@leica-users.org>
>
> Howard,
>
> Thanks.  It is fun to get a bit of access for a change.  The funny  
> thing is walking back to the car I saw a cool little garden next to  
> an office building and took a shot and got yelled at by the security  
> guard.  Thanks to our work with the state police I knew my rights  
> and told the man that I wouldn't stop shooting from a public  
> sidewalk.  It mystified him and he didn't have a response.
>
> How to do the Quicktime panos.  Well there's a lot of detail but  
> here's the outline.
>
> 1.  I used a Nikon D300 with a 10.5mm fisheye lens and shot 6 shots  
> around on a level tripod (you rotate about the nodal point of the  
> lens).  It is important to keep aperture, white balance constant so  
> I shoot in A mode.  Before I shoot I test for the right settings by  
> doing some test shots.  If you want to be really intense about it  
> you can take 3 shots at a -2, 0, +2 exposure and integrate them.
> 2.  You turn the camera up at the same point and take a ceiling  
> (zenith) shot.  Similarly turn it down and take the nadir shot
> 3.  You put all these shots into a program that will put them  
> together.  Photoshop CS4 does it now but I use PTGUI.  Both programs  
> will find the points that connect the various photographs and also  
> do a bit of blending.
> 4.  Of course there's tweaking.  Sometimes a person moves through  
> the shot and you have to do some masking, etc.
>
> There are some beautiful panoramas at www.panoramas.dk  More help at  
> panoguide.com
>
> Sanjay Nasta
> www.gadgetguys.com