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Subject: [Leica] Orford Street Scene - Full Size - now pano
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:02:07 +0100
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My mistake sorry

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/PAW-2009/2009-PAW-12-ChronoPanoGraph.jpg.html

view it large - 'green' pano head made of a piece of wine crate  
grossly drilled through where I had found the nodal point was -  
stitched in PSE v.2 ...

bien ? toi
Philippe



Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 20:53, Richard Taylor a ?crit :

>
> Philippe - The image didn't come through.  Did you intend to send  
> this off list?
>
> In any case, I'm too lazy to carry a tripod with a proper pan head  
> around when I travel.  I know a photographer on the Cape* who, among  
> other things, makes really large panos that he sells to companies as  
> office decoration.  Each pane is individually framed with no overlap  
> allowed on the negs.  Some of his work is 30 feet wide.  He ran  
> through his routine for me once, demonstrating the specially marked  
> pan head with exactly located nodal point and built-in bubble level,  
> etc., etc.  The results are spectacular but, ye gods, what a lot of  
> work!
>
> I'm going to count on the approximate approach and use PS to glue  
> the frames together.  :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
> *Cape Cod, that is.
>
> On Dec 04, 2009, at 2:28 PM, philippe.amard wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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