Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Happy New Year Howard! I have been using PS to stitch panoramas for a few months now. The ones I like best, but they are big files, are stitches of around 10 frames, taken in portrait format using a 50mm lens on the M8. I have a couple from our Scotland holiday on Skye which I am pleased with. They are each about 1Gb, no need for the Xpan! cheers, Frank it was -12C in Cologne last week :-( On 13 Jan, 2009, at 01:46, H&ECummer wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information