Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pleasure Dick, I'm on the LUG for this kind of exchange too. Rotation: I think the trick is to find the, is it ' nodal point ' of the lens, then things should be easy - I had made myself a wooden contraption for experiments, 2009-PAW-12-ChronoPanoGraph.jpg which I never furthered, but will, euh, when I have decided myself to buy a real rail/head for panos ... Keep playing and sharing Dick Thanks again Philippe Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 20:04, Richard Taylor a ?crit : > > You are welcome Philippe. This kind of discussion is one of the > things I really like about the LUG. Unfortunately, things don't > always work out quite this well. Later today I hope to post a shot > that I had to torture into (near) acceptability. > > As I said in an earlier post, I've learned that it's very important > to rotate the camera about one axis only to get good results easily. > > Regards, > > Dick > > > > On Dec 04, 2009, at 12:05 PM, philippe.amard wrote: > >> Thank you Richard >> >> It is really good - and even XXL ( > 1.6m x 1.2 now I guess) >> remains fairly sharp. >> >> About the wire, I was curious to see if the connection between the >> shots showed, it does. >> So may be a couple of minutes to dub it out it in PS would be less >> of a penalty. >> >> Now as to the view; this is exactly what I am dreaming a WA could >> do; no distortion, and something very close to human sight (span), >> mine at least. It gives a feeling of being there, in media res, >> wondering what had happened to the wing of the car, of which way to >> go; proceed along the path, or ring the bell and ask my way (wink). >> >> Thanks for all your efforts, they were well worth the result. >> >> Bien cordialement >> Philippe >> >> >> Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 17:50, Richard Taylor a ?crit : >> >>> >>> I just uploaded a full-size version of this image, the one that >>> Philippe and I were discussing yesterday. It's 6643 x 3944 pixels >>> at 72 dpi. >>> >>> As a reminder, this is a 3-pane photomerge done in PSCS4 via >>> Lightroom. It was taken with a Panasonic G-1 and 20mm f1.7 >>> Panasonic pancake lens at ISO 400 with the camera held vertically >>> for the three shots. The sky was overcast and the lighting grey >>> and flat. The only adjustments to the three images prior to >>> merging were minor exposure equalization and the addition of some >>> fill light to bring up the texture in the bricks while retaining >>> texture in the sky. There was no sharpening that I remember (I >>> don't have the original file available at the moment, so I can't >>> confirm that) though it probably should have had some. Like the >>> Aldeburgh image I posted recently, this one would probably look >>> better in B&W, too. >>> >>> In any case, here it is. >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/England_2009/lg_orford_street_scene.jpg.html >>> or >>> http://tinyurl.com/y9ky4o7 >>> >>> I look forward to hearing your comments. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Dick >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >