[Leica] Panorama experiment with M8 and 28mm lens

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Thanks Lluis,

it was more luck than judgement!  I fixed the exposure with an incident 
light reading and then just checked the histogram to make sure there 
wasn't too much clipping.  The hardest part was keeping the camera level.

Thanks for looking and commenting.

Cheers

Mark

Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK

Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
Blog                   http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
Picture a week (2010)  http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
Picture a week (2009)  http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
                (2008)  http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008


On 19/06/10 13:48, Lluis Ripoll Querol wrote:
> Mark,
> Uou get a really great and beautiful image, really impressive, with a 
> difficult light and well solved by you
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
> El 19/06/2010, a las 14:24, Mark Pope escribi?:
>
>> A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to go up to a large beech wood 
>> where the bluebells always put on a fabulous show.
>> It's always hard to do justice to them.  This time, however, I 
>> thought I'd try a panorama.  Tricky, when your tripod has a ball and 
>> socket head attached, but with some care and a hotshoe-mounted spirit 
>> level, I managed it.
>> I used my M8 with 28mm Elmarit lens, set the exposure to manual and 
>> prayed that the light wouldn't change...
>>
>> The stitch was done using Hugin Panaorama Tools, an open-source 
>> application available from (IIRC) Sourceforge.  I'm running it on a 
>> Linux machine, but I think versions are available for Mac and PC.
>> The finished panorama is 8972 x 2533 pixels and the 16-bit tiff is 
>> 200Mbytes! It would easily print up to 30 inches wide or more.  I 
>> printed it on A2 paper and I am very pleased with the outcome.
>>
>> The Jpeg is 2.2Mbytes, so if you have a slow connection, it may take 
>> a while to load.
>>
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/gallery.php?gallery=panorama&image=westwoods-pano-1.jpg
>>  
>>
>>
>> I hope you like it - any comments, advice or critique will be 
>> gratefully received.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Pope,
>> Swindon, Wilts
>> UK
>>
>> Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
>> Blog                   http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
>> Picture a week (2010)  
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
>> Picture a week (2009)  
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
>>               (2008)  
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
>>
>>
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